Nick Yeoman's Blog

How To Install Composer On Ubuntu

Updated: April 11, 2023

Laravel out of the box

Updated: October 28, 2022

Laravel out of the box explains how to install Laravel, to a working development condition, on a Ubuntu system using Sail and docker.

Redirect Based On Browser (user agents)

Updated: July 18, 2022

Php Mysql Insert From Array

Updated: April 5, 2022

I first wrote this article in 2009 when CodeIgniter’s active record class did most of the db work for you.  Eventually I'll update this to talk about my php class helper for MySQL.

Compress and Combine CSS

Updated: February 18, 2022

In this article I'm going to show you how I merge and compress my CSS files using PHP.

Php Heredocs

Updated: February 17, 2022

Developers who don’t use heredoc’s have really annoying code to edit.

Php Sessions

Updated: February 17, 2022

This is a brief introduction to PHP sessions. Creating sessions are very easy!

Php Validation Class

Updated: February 17, 2022

This article includes the PHP class I use for simple form validation.