Kennington reservoir drained drone images
A drained and empty Kennington reservoir images from a drone in early July 2024. The reservoir was drained in April 2024 to do a dam wall upgrade/repair, area deepening and…
Merrimu Reservoir drone images
Merrimu Reservoir from drone. Click images to view larger.
FTP getting array of file details such as size using PHP
Using FTP and PHP to get an array of file details such as size and permissions. This uses the ftp_rawlist() method and splits the string into an array for each…
Creating Laravel form requests
Creating and using Laravel form requests to create cleaner code, separation and reusability for your requests. This is achieved by making use of the artisan command make:request php artisan make:request…
Improving the default Laravel login and register views
Improving the default Laravel login and register views in such a simple manner but making a noticeable change in appearance. The default Laravel login view Now let’s update the look…
Laravel validation for checking if value exists in the database
Laravel validation for checking if a field value exists in the database. The validation rule to use is exists() where you can state the table and column for the value…
Early September spring shots
Some early September spring shots from a bushwalk, It is still too early for wildflowers.
Introducing Servyrun
Servyrun allows you to connect your servers and run simple SSH & SFTP commands, view server usage, do pings between your servers, download, upload & edit files, view database tables…
Laravel log all database queries with their bindings and execution time
Laravel log all database queries with their bindings and execution time in seconds This is done by using the boot method in app/Providers/AppServiceProvider.php public function boot() { DB::listen(function ($query) {…
Building a query in Laravel using conditional statements
How to build a conditional based query in Laravel that gets shaped based on conditional statements before finally being executed. In this example below checks are made on if the…