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Format Date Column in Infyom Datatable - Laravel
I have the following datatable class generated by Infyom’s Laravel Generator:
Unit Testing Translation Strings in Laravel
If your Laravel app uses multiple locales, it can get tedious keeping track of translations that are yet to be added to the appropriate translation files, e.g English translations in resources/lang/en/validation.php and French translations in resources/lang/fr/validation.php.
Detecting CAMTEL Numbers with Regex
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Laravel Middleware to Set App Locale to Passed In Value
This is a middleware that takes care of setting the app locale to the passed in locale string (e.g en, fr).
How to access \App\Http\Kernel class instance in Laravel
To access an instance of your app’s App\Http\Kernel class, you can use Laravel’s built in resolve() helper function:
Specify a default value for Netlify CMS string widget
To specify a default value for Netlify CMS’s string widget, add the default property to it’s definition and assign it a value, as follows:
Resources for Syntax Highlighting in Jekyll with Rouge
Here’s the best resources I’ve found for configuring syntax highlight with Route in Jekyll:
Jekyll: Setting a default cover image for all your posts
This post assumes you’re currently able to add an image to your post front matter, for example:
Enable Adb Debug on MTN Smart T running KaiOS
To enable adb debug on MTN Smart T running KaiOS, dial this code to open a menu and from there enable the USB debugging:
Pass Value to Replace a Custom Placeholder in a Laravel Validation Message
Say you have the following validation message in the custom array of your language file - resources/lang/xx/validation.php - (or another location depending on your use case).
Generating Unique Phone Numbers for Testing Purposes
You can pass a callback function to RxJS’s first() operator, I was not aware!
My typical use-case for RxJS first() operator is to emit only the first item of an observable stream. What if you want the first value based on a certain condition instead?
Debugging ScullyIO Rendering and Network Errors with the help of puppeteerLaunchOptions
With my Angular app’s Scully build broken due to proxy redirect issues, I was very happy today discovering we can control the underlying mechanism of rendering the pages to some degree.
Laravel: Exclude a Dynamic Route From CSRF Protection
Let’s say you have the following dynamic web route and would like to exclude it from csrf protection in your Laravel application:
Pass Typescript-like Typed Objects and Arrays to Your Laravel Functions by Leveraging Data Transfer Objects
When working on a PHP codebase, one thing I really miss from the Typescript world is the ability to pass properly typed objects and array into functions.
Detect The Carrier/Mobile Network Of A Phone Number With Javascript, PHP, Java, C++, Ruby, etc
For a long time I’ve struggled with this problem, determining the Mobile Network a given phone number belongs to. Today I found out Google’s libphonenumber library (or any of it’s third party ports for other languages) have this functionality built in.