When developing PHP applications locally, sometimes the performance is not as great as it could be, especially when working with frameworks such as Laravel or Symphony. One place to start looking to gain some performance is the realpath_cache_size...

…t that it took me about two months to start working on the project seriously (life and work gets busy after all) - that is some serious under estimating. This reminds me of something I first heard in a talk by Matt Stauffer ( Matt Stauffer -...

…run. I wanted something that I could easily hack away on, something that I knew inside and out. In addition, I wanted something that would be easy for visitors to use that would also put an emphasis on the content (at this point I was working on...

The TechResources add-on is related to the BuildResources add-on. Many of the views (or pages) that can be seen on the Technology Resources section of the site are implemented as Laravel Blade templates. The reason this was done was to leverage...

An often overlooked aspect of creating a Statamic or Laravel application is customizing the 500 Server Error page. By default, a Statamic site will display an error page similar to this when a catastrophic error occurs: Granted, this is much...

…s error handler located within the app/Exceptions/Handler.php file. These changes are going to allow us to store a reference to any exception that is thrown so that we can access it later to provide additional details to our error template. The...

…AppServiceProvider.php . Within our service provider, we will register a new view composer using the view()->composer() helper function, and supply a callback that will get executed before our template is rendered. We can get access to the view...