PHP | Safeer Ahmed

May 31, 2014

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Programming

Illuminate Events Library in a Nutshell

Illuminate Events is a another great component that makes up Laravel. it’s a simple observer implementation which allows you to fire events when something happens and then listen in on the event in another part of your application. Below is a quick guide on how to …

June 14, 2013

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Programming

Structure Laravel 4 Custom Validation with Namespaces

In Laravel 4 there are multiple ways to add your own validation rules, one of which is to extend the Validation Class, now this can be done without Namespaces but as using Namespaces will be less likely to cause naming collisions in the future, we’ll do …

May 26, 2013

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Programming

Export to CSV, XML & JSON – Then Stream, Save or Display

More often then not as a developer you’ll find that you have to output data to XML, CSV, JSON, this could be a simple method to export data for external processing or a way to backup data. Obviously you could manually create the boilerplate code – …

May 14, 2013

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Illuminate Database Capsule Connection Manager

I’ve covered Dan Horrigans Illuminate Database Capsule Package in previous blog posts, it has since been merged into the the core Illuminate Database package. This means you no longer need to rely on an external package to simplify Database connection when using Illuminate Database in a …

April 10, 2013

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Programming

Structure your Laravel App with Namespaces

Laravel 4 is really flexible and allows you to setup your application however you want, after all the majority of Laravel/Illuminate packages can be used in external apps and other frameworks. See my blog on Composer and Codeigniter: Part I Replace The Database/Model Layer for information on how …

March 13, 2013

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Programming

Web Scraping 101 with PHP and Goutte

The Basics I’ll be showing how to scrape pages easily using PHP and Goutte. To get started download Goutter.phar from here. Then create a file called in the same directory as the one you put goutte.phar in. Now pop the following into the file: <?php include_once __DIR__ …

February 22, 2013

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Programming

Composer and Codeigniter: Part I Replace The Database/Model Layer

I’ve been working on a large Codeigniter project and the need for some – what now are – basics means I’ve outgrown Codeigniter. Don’t get me wrong, Codeigniter has served me well for years but this project has outgrown Codeigniter, sure I could add the features …