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Add Support for HTML5 Video Tag to a Jekyll Blog
You can use one of the below approaches:
- Use the Octopress plugin as described in this Stackoverflow answer.
- Use the approach in this pull request to the Jekyll So Simple Theme. You may have to update the code to match your video storage path.
Laravel Validation: sometimes vs nullable
Source Code of Laravel Framework’s Validation Rules
If you’d like to view the source code of Laravel’s validation rules on Github, have a look here Validator.php#L1102.
After a long search through the Laravel Github repositories, I finally had a break and found the link through this Stackoverflow answer. I wanted to see how the framework actually validates integers.
Using Spatie’s Laravel Dashboard within an existing Page Layout
I’ve recently added Spatie’s Laravel Dashboard to a backend admin app and didn’t realize it is configured as a full webpage already, with an opening <html> tag, <head>, and <body> all setup.
Add your Proxy Configuration File to angular.json - and forget it ever existed
What if you never have to write the –proxy-config CLI option again when serving your Angular application?
Run an npm script in package.json inside another npm script in package.json
This post might seem trivial but I did spend a good amount of time searching this online just to be sure. So here we are lol.
How to Set Nullable Types in PHP >= 7.1.x
To set a function parameter or return type as nullable, add a question mark in front of the type declaration.
Netlify: Redirect Users by Country or Language
Today at Switchn we had the need to redirect users by country and browser language on our Netlify hosted site. That is, send those visiting our site from English speaking countries to /en/ and those from French speaking countries to /fr/. Also if the user’s browser sends an accept-language header in the request (e.g. accept-language: en-US,en;q=0.9), we’d like to take that into consideration too.
Format Dates for Humans with Carbon in PHP
I’ve spent like the last 30 minutes searching the web for how to convert dates to human-readable strings with Carbon in PHP/Laravel. Here’s a compilation of a couple of useful Carbon methods for my future self.
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: