As a rule, dates in a database are stored in UTC. So, when you export records from database constrained by dates, it is a good idea to use appropriate timezone in export query. You can do it in one of two ways. One way is create incoming dates in user’s timezone, then covert time to…
Let’s assume we have a use case. We create products at someotherwebsite.com. In the end of each day we want to sync newly created products to Shopify store using API. Each product that we are creating has a unique code to identify it. This code corresponds to Shopify product’s sku. This is how we link…
In Laravel framework you can create commands and call them from php application. One command can call another command, and another command, and so on. But if an exception is thrown in one of the commands in this chain the whole chain breaks. In order to avoid this problem and run each artisan command as…
Laravel Homestead includes a lot of software, but unfortunately does not have PhpMyAdmin. You can always install it on nginx, but if you have it already on your host system (for example, as a part of xampp package), you can always configure it as a Nginx site. First of all, you need to edit your config.inc.php file. At…
This article covers installation of Jenkins on Ubuntu server and its usage to continuously integrate a Laravel application. Besides LAMP/LEMP stack we need to install Java, Git, Composer, and Node to successfully use Jenkins. Before starting to install this software, let’s take care of miscellaneous stuff. Miscellaneous (can skip this). Create mysql user and database….