How to debug and view a Laravel DB query
How to view a raw Laravel database query from the DB facade with its bindings. This is a good method to debug if your queries with the query builder are…
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Naming routes in Laravel for convenience
Naming routes in Laravel isn’t a necessity however it makes referencing so much easier when you want to reference a route when generating URLs and pass parameters to it. Take…
Splitting Laravel routes into seperate files
How to organize Laravel routes into separate files for better organization and readability. This isn’t something that would be done for a small project, rather a large one whereby the…
How to fix Laravel showing the directory structure on Apache
Prevent Laravel from showing the directory structure and instead show your application when using Apache. This is done by creating and assigning a new virtual host, to incorporate the /public…
Download a YouTube video comments with yt-dlp
Another seemingly hidden feature with yt-dlp is the ability to save the YouTube video comments into a JSON file. With yt-dlp downloading the video comments into a JSON file is…
Using Laravel cache to set, get and forget data
Using Laravel cache to store data in a cache, get the cache and then forget the data cache. Laravel makes caching extremely easy and should be implemented if you are…
Download a YouTube video subtitles file with yt-dlp
Download a YouTube videos subtitle file and choose a specific subtitle file format using yt-dlp. To list the available subtitles on a YouTube video with yt-dlp: yt-dlp –list-subs VIDEOURL If…
Searching YouTube videos with yt-dlp
How to search and get YouTube videos using the yt-dlp command line tool. You can either list the video id’s and title or instantly download the video. Searching YouTube videos…
First project; Learning Laravel week 3
In what might be the final post on learning Laravel with this being the week 3 blog post. The outcome being I released my first project made with Laravel which…
Further understandings; Learning Laravel week 2
Continuing on from week 1 in learning the Laravel Framework was spent working on a CRUD project. Doing the routes, views and controller functions for index, show, store, edit, create…