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Install Apache, PHP, and MySQL on Fedora 43

December 09th, 2025

If you’re setting up a local development or testing environment on Fedora, the classic Apache + PHP + MySQL stack is still a rock-solid choice. In this guide, we’ll walk through installing and configuring Apache (HttpD), PHP via the Remi...

Advanced Attribute Casting in Laravel 12: A Complete Developer’s Guide

Laravel PHP

October 15th, 2025

Leveraging Attribute Casting for Advanced Data Transformations in Laravel 12 When working with Eloquent models in Laravel, most developers use attribute casting in a simple way, i.e., booleans, dates, or arrays. But Laravel 12 introduces even more power and flexibility,...

Using PHP's NumberFormatter for Localization and Formatting

PHP

March 01st, 2025

PHP provides powerful tools for formatting and handling numbers, especially when it comes to localization, currency formatting, and handling different number systems. One such tool is the NumberFormatter class, which is part of the intl (Internationalization) extension. This class offers...

Laravel Passport vs. Sanctum: A Comprehensive Comparison

Laravel Laravel Package

November 01st, 2024

A Deep Dive into Laravel Passport and Laravel Sanctum: A Comprehensive Comparison Laravel, a robust PHP framework, offers a myriad of tools for building modern web applications. Among these tools, Laravel Passport and Laravel Sanctum stand out as leading solutions...

Laravel Pennant: A Guide to Feature Flags

Laravel Laravel Package

August 11th, 2025

Exploring Laravel 11.x Pennant: A Comprehensive Guide to Feature Flags In the rapidly evolving landscape of web development, feature flags have become an essential tool for managing application features dynamically. With the release of Laravel 11.x, the Pennant package offers...

Validating Password Strength

Laravel Validation Rule

October 02nd, 2024

Custom Validation Rules in Laravel: Validating Password Strength In today's digital landscape, strong password policies are more important than ever. With increasing concerns about data breaches and unauthorized access, ensuring that users create strong, secure passwords is a critical aspect...

Visual Studio Code Set Up for Laravel Development

Laravel Software tools

June 18th, 2025

Visual Studio Code Setup For PHP Laravel Introduction Visual Studio Code, or VS Code, is a code editor tool used by many programmers worldwide. It is super easy to customize as per your tastes and preferences. It has support for...

Laravel on Sub-Domain of shared server

Laravel Shared Hosting

April 19th, 2024

Laravel on Sub-domain Let us learn how to host a laravel project on a sub-domain of shared hosting. Assumptions / Pre-requisites I presume that you have the following things ready with you. Shared hosting server Sub-domain on that shared hosting...

Deploy Laravel app on shared server using Envoy

Laravel

April 19th, 2024

Introduction On the shared hosting servers, it becomes a chore SSHing every time and executing the commands like cd to a domain, git pull to sync all the files and folders, npm build to build the production-ready app, etc. Then...

The software tools used by me

Software tools

October 02nd, 2024

Software Tools used For creating any website or web application, the following are the tools that I use. Hardware Laptop The laptop that I use is of HP Laptop (Model - R41000680) Mouse I rarely use the Touchpad Mouse as...

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In this process, I learn more about the requirements from you and/or from the client, and come up with varios permutations and combinations to meet the requirements.