Paul Redmond

Full stack web developer. Author of Lumen Programming Guide and Docker for PHP Developers.

How to Convert HTML to Plain Text in PHP image

How to Convert HTML to Plain Text in PHP

The Hypertext PHP package converts HTML to pure text and beautifully handles various and malformed HTML.

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Laravel 10.29 Released

This week, the Laravel team released v10.29 with the ability to list all route middleware in route:list, CLI dump output updates, and more.

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Svelte by Example

"Svelte by Example" is a concise, gentle introduction to Svelte & SvelteKit to pique your curiosity.

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Introducing the Next Chapter of Splade image

Introducing the Next Chapter of Splade

Pascal Baljet, shared a sneak peek of the next chapter of Laravel Splade, a package to create SPAs with Laravel Blade.

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Laravel Easy Metrics

Laravel Easy Metrics is a package to generate metrics, designed to work with Laravel, Filament, and more.

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Conditionally Assert Throwing An Exception in Pest image

Conditionally Assert Throwing An Exception in Pest

Pest recently added the throwsUnless() method in Pest v2.24 to conditionally verify an exception if a given boolean expression evaluates to false. Let...

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Write Single Page Applications using Laravel Splade image

Write Single Page Applications using Laravel Splade

Laravel Splade is a super easy way to build Single Page Applications (SPA) using Laravel Blade templates. Splade makes it easy to create modern, dynam...

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LangCountry is a Localization Package for Laravel image

LangCountry is a Localization Package for Laravel

The Laravel LangCountry is a localization package that provides automatic date formatting, language switching, and more.

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How to add a confirmation dialog with Livewire image

How to add a confirmation dialog with Livewire

Livewire released a wire:confirm HTML directive to easily add a confirmation modal before performing an important or dangerous action.

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Run Pest Tests in VS Code with Better PHPUnit image

Run Pest Tests in VS Code with Better PHPUnit

The Better PHPUnit test runner extension for VS Code now supports running PestPHP tests. Learn how to install this extension to quickly run tests dire...

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Laravel Breeze with Volt Functional API image

Laravel Breeze with Volt Functional API

The Laravel team released the Livewire + Volt functional stack for Laravel Breeze, adding to the impressive amount of stacks you use with Laravel.

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PHP Desktop and Mobile User Agent Parser image

PHP Desktop and Mobile User Agent Parser

The jenssegers-agent package is a desktop/mobile user agent parser with support for Laravel, based on MobileDetect.

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