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Laravel model attributes are basically representing the database fields for the given model. When data is retrieved from the database, it can be accessed through the model as they were actual properties of the model instance: $model->database_column_name. However the attributes are not real properties of the instance, but they are stored in the protected $attributes …
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In one of my previous articles I’ve written about how to create an automated pipeline for continuous integration and continuous delivery using travis. Lately GitHub actions are quite popular, I am also experimenting with them. I started by reading the articles written by the guys from Spatie, you can find them here and here. While …
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Introduction I was looking around for some low cost backup solution for my server when I got an idea. Let’s use dropbox for that. The free version of dropbox has 2 GB of space and it has an official linux client. The offered space is not too much, but for smaller sites it is good …
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This year is about to end, so I thought it might be interesting to write a recap of what I did this year. This is the first time I am writing this kind of blog post, hopefully there will be more of them in the future. Open source development I created my first open source …
The Laravel ecosystem has great tools for managing automatic deployments: Envoyer, Forge and for serverless deployments there is Vapor. These are easy to use and affordable solutions for automatic deployment of Laravel applications. But if you are developing open source applications, or just looking for a free solution, you can set up Travis CI for …
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Introduction If we’d like to write error free, robust, high quality PHP code, the static code analyzers can be of great help. If you work on open-source projects you can take the advantage of using Scrutinizer and StyleCI for these purposes. However if you are working on other, proprietary projects, you might need to run/configure …
Introduction As a senior developer I think it is important to share the knowledge, thoughts, and day to day experiences. Attending to conferences, meetups and writing a blog is a great way to achieve this. I was working on this blog, when remembered the early days of my career. Back in 2008 (huh, it was …
Sometimes we need to to dump all databases form a MySQL server. This can be done using the mysqldump utility with the –all-databases switch enabled. In this case mysqldump will dump all databases to the standard output or to a file if explicitly specified. Let’s assume a situation where we want to backup all of …
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The goal of this project was to use CakePHP controllers as flash remoting services. The basic idea was to use AMFPHP 1.9, because we used it before and it was a good choice in earlier projects. As nobody wants to “reinvent the wheel”, I googled for a solution to integrate the AMFPHP into the CakePHP framework. After a …
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