Emil Moe

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Laravel: Seed Users table and send password reset link

November 12, 2019

A useful feature for setting up your application fast is using the seeders, especially for testing and developing it's great to have data to work on with just 1 command. A problem for me though was that if I seed users with a password it would mean ...

Fast webhook testing

November 9, 2019

Ever wanted to test a webhook or some other kind of broadcast event from your app? Yesterday I discovered webhook.site which generates a unique URL for you and let you call that so you can see the calls in their interface and even heads and such. T...

Fix the strange characters for (PHP) Artisan

November 8, 2019

I have lately been facing an issue where my artisan outputs a lot of strange characters such as ?[32m. It seems to be an issue with the latest Laravel. Until now I have managed to read around it, but it still annoyed me. Finally today I found the sol...

Store Laravel uploads off-site in the cloud

November 5, 2019

Long time ago uploads folders were common to any larger web project. A folder where uploaded files could be stored and a folder with 777 permission set (Read, Write, Execute on Linux). For security reasons, having files or folders with write and exec...

Deploy Laravel packages to Packagist

October 24, 2019

You are probably already using Laravel when you read this, that means you are already using Packagist too, but might not be aware of it. In this guide you will learn how to deploy your own Laravel packages to Packagist. Packagist is the platform behi...

Backup MySQL to DigitalOcean

October 23, 2019

I have authored an article on how to create a dead simple backup approach for you project. My approach is for Laravel, but it could easily work for Wordpress as well or any other MySQL database for that instance as it only relies on MySQL and Linux c...