My First Official WordPress Plugin (and How I Published It)

First of all, this post is a mix of documentation for my future self and a small celebration of my first accepted WordPress plugin. This one: Mohcin Taxonomy SEO for WooCommerce

How to Add UUIDs to an Existing Laravel Database

Introduction UUIDs (Universally Unique Identifiers) are 128-bit identifiers that are globally unique, making them ideal for scenarios where you want to hide sequential ID patterns from your users. This article…

Use site.local Instead of localhost/mysite on apache without using docker or DDEV

Let’s suppose you’re using Apache on your local machine and you want to visit your PHP project using something like http://site.local instead of http://localhost/mysite. You’re not using Docker, DDEV, or…

Building a reply system for comments in Laravel -Without a Subcomments Table-

Many developers, when adding a “reply to comment” feature in a Laravel app, often consider creating a separate sub_comments table (I was one of them, based on my lack of…

Synchronous and Asynchronous code by simple examples

In software development, there are two important concepts: synchronous and asynchronous behavior. JavaScript developers, especially those who use vanilla JavaScript, know these well because of how promises work. I like…

Fixing Object Pagination with Laravel and Inertia.js that gives empty data

Problem When working with Laravel and Inertia.js, pagination returns an object instead of an array. This can make looping over the results a bit tricky, as the expected array structure…

Fixing Laravel Route Conflicts, that led to 404 Errors for Existing Routes

Problem: Recently, while developing a feature to update resources in my Laravel app, I faced an unexpected issue: the create functionality, which had been working previously, suddenly stopped functioning. When…

Understanding Method Spoofing in Laravel

Title: Understanding Method Spoofing in Laravel When working with request/response methods, different HTTP methods like GET, POST, PUT, and PATCH have custom purposes. POST is generally used for creating resources,…

Handling Multiple Forms with Different Field Names Using a Single Endpoint

The Problem: Suppose you have an endpoint to send data to the database, and in your project, you have two forms with the same field(s), let’s say a field named…

Understanding Factory Design Patterns in PHP

It is a solution created by software engineers during the last years to solve those main problems particularly..