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GIT Tools- PHP
- Shorthand in PHP
How to explode new lines in PHP
If you want to explode a string (mostly a loaded text file content), you just use this code:
$rows = explode(PHP_EOL, $content);
Learn GIT tutorials
A very nice and easy tutorials to explain GIT for the beginners …
https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/what-is-version-control
How to test sending Laravel email from command prompt
If you want to test if you can send email from Laravel using only command prompt, here is how ..
- First open your favorite command prompt
- Go to your root folder of your website (i.e cd c:\xampp\htdocs\mySite )
- Run this command: php artisan tinker
- Mail::send(‘myView‘, [], function ($message) { $message->to(‘yourEmail@test.com’)->subject(‘Sending mail is OK’); });
Laravel Admin Panel Generator article
Here is a good article talking about Laravel Admin Panel generators
https://laravel-news.com/13-laravel-admin-panel-generators
How to redirect everything to HTTPS
Redirect all non-HTTPS traffic to HTTPS using htaccess
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !on [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301,L]
</IfModule>
for more htaccess tips, go to this url:
https://www.leaseweb.com/labs/tag/htaccess/
How to configure virtual hosts on Apache on Windows
If you are using Apache on your Windows machine and want to set up virtual hosts so you can type something like this “www.myDomain.tst” in your browser and it’ll direct you to your local hosted site … you have to edit this file:
C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
Add a new line with this text
127.0.0.1 myDomain
Open apache\conf\extra\httpd-vhosts.conf file and add these lines:
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot path_to_your_document_root
ServerName myDomain
</VirtualHost>
Redirect to Edit after saving in Laravel
If you want to go to edit page after saving an item , here is the code
$data = $request->only('title', 'body');
$item = Item::create($data);
return redirect()->route('edit_item',['id'=> $item->id]);
Free DNS
There are a number of free DNS that you can use:
- Google’s 8.8.8.8
- Quad9’s 9.9.9.9
- CloudFlare’s 1.1.1.1
- OpenDNS 208.67.222.222
- Norton 199.85.126.20
- CleanBrowsing 185.228.168.168
- Comodo DNS 8.26.56.26
Here is a good article comparing DNS for speed and features
For the speed results, The Top 5 DNS are:
Global Average Speed:
- CloudFlare: 4.98 ms
- Google: 16.44 ms
- Quad9: 18.25 ms
- CleanBrowsing: 19.14 ms
- Norton: 34.75 ms