June 10, 2024 — There comes a time when you want to log in or authenticate a user in your application manually. For instance, you have a functionality where admins can mimic a user to perform certain actions. Or you may just want to impersonate a user for testing purposes.

June 8, 2024 — Have you ever encountered a situation where you have an area, let’s say a <div> element, which is a hyperlink and you wanted another hyperlink inside that <div> element which should also be clickable?

June 6, 2024 — Povilas Korop recently shared an interesting (yet important) tip regarding sane use of Composer if you’re used to working with Composer on your server.

June 5, 2024 — When it comes to building a SaaS product, Laravel essentially covers many things for you out of the box—things such as authentication, user management, notifications, queues, etc. You can further use first-party or third-party packages to add more features to your application.

May 30, 2024 — The attention to detail in everything that Laravel’s core team does is truly inspiring. Be it the clean code, the well-thought-out architecture, the thoughtful design decisions, or even the symmetry in the 3-line code comments, everything seems to be in the state of zen.

May 29, 2024 — When it comes to sending emails, Laravel makes it a breeze of a task. Be it SMTP, Sendmail, Mailgun, or any other service, Laravel has got it all. You set the default mailer, the required API key/token in the .env file, and you are good to go.

May 28, 2024 — Generally, when you want to center content vertically, you may reach for Flexbox or Grid. So, for instance, if you have a div with a height of 100px and you want to center its content vertically, you can do it with Flexbox like so.

May 26, 2024 — Broken links, also known as dead links, are hyperlinks on a webpage that no longer lead to the intended destination. When a user clicks on a broken link, they typically encounter a 404 error message, indicating that the webpage cannot be found.

May 24, 2024 — Many times when sharing screenshots of websites, I would like to show the website loaded in the browser but at the same time, I don’t want to show all the clutter that comes with the browser like the toolbar, tabs, extensions, etc.

May 20, 2024 — PHP 8.4 is still under development and has a bunch of new features and improvements under its belt so far. New features keep on appearing and one of them recently surfaced is the addition of new array methods.