When working on a php package it is inconvenient to push the package to github (or other repository) and then wait for the package to update using composer update. For package development, composer has such feature as path repositories. Let’s imagine we have a two folders on the same level:  my-app and  package.   my-app is an app — a test…
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…
Adding email headers in Laravel application is quite simple. SwiftMessage can be customized using withSwiftMessage method of Mailable base class: https://laravel.com/docs/8.x/mail#customizing-the-swiftmailer-message However you have to remember to do it every time you create a new “mailable” class. Some mail APIs require you to put a special header each time you send an email. In this…
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…
