I sometimes find that it would be useful to use artisan tinker to play with the sorts of data that Faker will generate in a Laravel factory. Unfortunately I don’t do it often enough to always remember the correct way to do it, since the obvious new Faker\Generator doesn’t work. So for future reference, what you need is:
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The title pretty much says it all on this one. I just started playing around with Ember, and one of the first things I tried to do was include the ember-simple-auth addon in a brand new project. I tried following the step-by-step instructions in the readme as well as the ones shown in the introductory video. Nothing … [Read more…]
Recently I had to allow a PHP script to run for several minutes under Nginx (more specifically, as part of a Laravel app on a DigitalOcean server), after encountering the error “504 Gateway Timeout”. First, to tell Nginx to allow the script to run for a longer period of time, I set the FastCGI read timeout to ten … [Read more…]
To allow CakePHP 3 to add entries to many-to-many join tables when creating or patching entities, the names of the associations must be added to the array of accessible concrete properties on the model. The documentation does mention this fact eventually, as a note in the “Patching HasMany and BelongsToMany” section, but not as part of … [Read more…]
I just ran through Laravel’s intermediate quickstart tutorial. On the whole it was rather well put together and worked with as little or as much copying and pasting as you felt like using. Here I’m just recording a few notes for future reference about non-obvious things I encountered. Error messages for simple typos One interesting … [Read more…]