Ed Zynda
Coder | Hacker | Superhero
I’m a very visual person so when I’m developing something, I like see and interact with my projects exactly how I would if it was in the production stage. The problem is, I don’t have a handful of test users on call to register on my test application and start using it. Laravel already has an easy way to populate your databases with users and other data but there’s still some manual data entry involved.…
Read more »The first thing we’ll need to do is create a default layout. This is the layout that the rest of our views will extend. Let’s save it as ‘app/views/layouts/default.blade.php’. …
Read more »The Internet is the wild west these days. With hackers, scammers and even governments gathering our personal communications, you may have become pretty paranoid about what you post online these days. In response to all this paranoia, there have been several offerings from online applications to SaaS services claiming to improve your security and protect your data online. I wouldn’t say that I fall into the paranoid category but security, anonymity and cryptography fascinate me.…
Read more »If you’re discussing object oriented programming in PHP these days, it’s likely that you’ve at least heard about such topics as dependency injection or IoC containers. They’re both pretty useful tools for coding and testing your code. What exactly is an IoC container though? It sounds pretty complicated but it’s really not. If you read my earlier post on using repositories in Laravel you might have noticed that when using dependency injection in our __construct method, we didn’t have to actually instantiate our repository.…
Read more »The past couple of days I have been cramming my brain with coding knowledge. I’m working on a side project that I’ll likely announce in detail as it gets closer to launch. Since I’m starting from an empty Laravel project and building it from the ground up, I’m learning quite a bit about the framework and even some of the new features in PHP 5.4 and above. One technique I’m starting to better understand is that of dependency injection.…
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