Laravel / Google Maps -- Get Locations in Bounds
Problem: While working on a project using Laravel back-end and JavaScript front-end. I had a situation where I needed to get all the locations for the map with given bounds. First,
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MySQL Efficiently Generating Millions of Random Registration Codes
Problem: While working with a company, I decided to look into how they were generating their registration codes which were used to allow users to pre-purchase access to their platf
Laravel 4: CSRF TokenMismatchException when using stored form values
Problem: One of my client's Laravel web sites was having issues with logging in users where the first time, they would get the TokenMismatchException (gracefully handled, of course
Laravel 4: Model Hydrate
Problem: While converting some older Laravel code, I ran into an issue where the hydrate method had been removed. My usage was similar to this: $raw_result = DB::query(...); $hydra
Laravel 4: Seeding Large CSV Files Using MySQL Load Data
Problem: I wanted to quickly populate some tables using some large CSVs (400k+ records) but parsing the files and importing each line was out of the question and doing one mass ins
Dynamic Relative Date Range
About Dynamic Relative Date-time Range Dynamic Relative Date-time Range (also known as a Rolling Date Range) is a string formatted representation of a period of time relative to th
Migrating From Laravel 3 to Laravel 4
I apologize that this page is not well organized. It mainly exists to serve as notes for myself. If you can make sense of this, great! Changes I had to make to my code when updatin
Solution - Installed LAMP, PHP works, but website shows a blank page!
Problem: Recently I've been setting up some servers for web hosting and while install the LAMP stack, ran into a funny issue where the server would return a blank page when I tried
Laravel 3 Documentation: Here it is!
Problem: With the recent release of Laravel 4, the documentation URLs for Laravel 3 have been completely changed and I haven't been able to find it. Solution: Found it: http://thre
Using Composer with Laravel 3
Problem: I found a well-written PayPal REST API that used Composer . My existing project was in Laravel 3. I wanted to make everything work without hacking all my files to bits. Bu
Laravel 3: Unlimited routing arguments
Problem: I was working on a project in Laravel when I realized I really wanted to have 1 route rule for a specific controller but be able to allow a lot of different arguments. Sol
Laravel Routes: Missing argument 1 for {closure}()
Problem: While trying to develop quickly I set up a routing rule for Laravel that I thought was correct. But when I tried to access the page, I was met by this error: Missing argum
MySQL: Prepared statement needs to be re-prepared
Problem: While developing a web site on my development service provided by Dreamhost , I found that I would occasionally (and randomly) run into the following error: General error:
PHPActiveRecord Fix to Support Foreign Characters Charset
Problem: While developing a multilingual application for a client using PHPActiveRecord , I noticed that foreign characters were not getting read properly from the database due to
Reject calls in Twilio OpenVBX (Code Modification)
Problem: Every week I get an automated call from some number to my Twilio number. It is very annoying and I don't want to pay (even a penny) every time this caller tries to dial my
CodeIgniter 2.1.0 Facebook App: Wont Load in Facebook
Problem: One of my clients currently has me working on a project involving the creation of a Facebook application. Since the project is small and needs to be completed ASAP, I chos
DreamHost: PHP generates XML without quotes and case insensative
Problem Running a Twilio application on my personal server was working fine until I moved it to DreamHost . At that point my XML was corrupt and closer inspection showed that doubl
Trixbox 2.8 Adding Repo Addons Breaks GUI
After installing Trixbox 2.8 on my Oracle VirtualBox, I was playing around and enabled the Trixbox Addons repo under Settings > Repositories. Upon refresh my it was apparent tha
CodeIgniter 2.0+ is ajax check
Problem: In some instances, you may want to know if your request in the controller was ajax. Solution: Turns out CodeIgniter has added an is_ajax_request method to the input class.
Issues while integrating PHP ActiveRecord with CodeIgniter 2.0.2
Intro Being tired of having a trying to fully utilize CodeIgniter's built-in ActiveRecord (which is really a loose interpretation of the ActiveRecord design pattern if you ask me),
CodeIgniter - Library class not found when upgrading to CI 2.0
Problem: If you have recently upgraded your CodeIgniter framework to their recent 2.0 release, you have have run into some issues, that were not covered in the upgrade guide or in
Symfony 1.4 - crashing when loading large fixture files
Problem: I have been trying to load a large fixture file in Symfony but everytime I went to load the fixture using doctrine:load-data, Symfony would crash. I looked at the mySQL ta
Control Loading Order / Sequence of Fixtures in Symfony 1.4
Problem: I want to split my fixtures into separate files in the fixtures directory but when I try to load the data, I get constraint errors. Solution: Symfony has a solution for de
Symfony 1.4 uploads FLV as EXE or BIN files
When transferring a project from our development server to our production server at work, I realized that uploading FLV files resulted in the end result being a .BIN (or binary fil
Uploading a File in Symfony 1.4
Being new with Symfony, I decided to learn on their most recent stable version (1.4). For my work, I needed to be able to upload a file from the user when they submitted a form. Wh
Symfony XAMPP windows white screen or blank page issue
Recently while installing Symfony on my localhost using the xampp package, I realized I was having issues once I was trying to get the screen to load. When I typed in the url using
Flash caching PHP response
Recently I ran into an issue where I would call a PHP file that would generate a unique id and return that to Flash (I am sure I could do the same thing from within flash but decid