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Testing validation rules in a Laravel Livewire component
Testing validation rules in a Laravel Livewire component

Testing validation rules can become quite tiresome pretty quickly if you have to write each test manually. Luckily I’ve found a nice method that allows you to simplify your validation rule tests when using Laravel Livewire components. For this example we have a form that allows a user to update their profile information with a Livewire ProfileForm component.

The PHP switch statement
The PHP switch statement

In the previous article we discussed the if statement, where it said you can have many different elseif statements if you wanted to handle many different scenarios, but it gets to a point where you should consider swapping to a switch statement.

The PHP if statement
The PHP if statement

This is the first of a series of posts I will write that go back to basics and introduce the fundamentals of PHP. In this article I’m going to start with the PHP if statement.

Using Laravel Resource Collections with exports
Using Laravel Resource Collections with exports

Sometimes you need to get data out of your Laravel app so it can be analysed. There are many ways of doing this, such as exporting rows from the database, or using a package such as Laravel Excel, but this example will utilise Laravel Resource Collections.

Building a Cookery Blog with Bulma Clean Theme
Building a Cookery Blog with Bulma Clean Theme

Version 0.11 of Bulma Clean Theme has a new recipe layout you can use in your posts or pages. This post will explain how to use the new layout and build your very own cookery blog.

Bulma Blade UI
Bulma Blade UI

I would like to introduce a new Laravel package I have been working on for a little while called Bulma Blade UI. It offers a set of reusable Blade components with the Bulma html structure and CSS classes, as well as basic authentication views for use with Laravel Fortify, ready to go with minimal setup.

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Five book blurb writing observations
Five book blurb writing observations

Amazon KDP gives you a basic text editor for your book’s blurb, but here are five observations that I have made from researching other books. All of the examples are taken from Mystery books in the Amazon UK store.

Creating a Kindle formatted book from Google Docs
Creating a Kindle formatted book from Google Docs

I have seen a few posts on Threads recently asking what software people use to format their books. This is one option out of many, but I thought I would share my current workflow to give authors an insight into the pros and cons.

Hosting a Laravel app with AWS Beanstalk
Hosting a Laravel app with AWS Beanstalk

There are lots of possible hosting solutions available for Laravel, from Forge, to Vapor to the new Laravel Cloud. I’ll start out by saying that these other solutions are much easier to get up and running than beanstalk, but I thought I’d share some of the “fun” I had getting it up and running.

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