Laravel use Memcache instead of MemcacheD
Laravel works out of the box with Memcached. However there’s a difference between the linux programs Memcached and Memcache (without the D). To get Laravel to work with Memcache you…
Read more »A custom login/register page for Drupal 6
This tutorial explains how to created a single page with a login form an a register form in Drupal6. To accomplish this, we have to go through some concepts first:
Read more »PHP: check if ‘rijksregisternummer’ is valid.
I couldn’t find a decent PHP function to check the validation of the so called “rijksregisternummer” in Belgium (or “numéro de registre national” in French). I did however find a…
Read more »DrupalCamp Leuven 2013, a brief Saturday review.
It felt like a Monday morning. After my alarm clock didn’t get off (+ 1 hour), I noticed there was only a train 1 hour later, so instead of arriving…
Read more »Why is everybody using Disqus?
It’s like a virus these days. Every blog I come across uses Disqus as a comment system (if they don’t use the Facebook comment system). So why shouldn’t you do…
Read more »Drupalcamp Leuven 2013
A post for the Belgians… Drupalcamp 2013 is about to take place this weekend (september 14+15) in Leuven. The whole event is free, however you have to register and buying…
Read more »Laravel 4: pivot table example (attach and detach)
What’s a pivot table? A pivot table is a database table that only exists to serve a many-to-many relationship. Say you have a table “customer” and a table “drinks”. If…
Read more »Laravel Naming Conventions
Laravel supports the PHP Framework Interop Group naming conventions. You can find them on the PHP-FIG website. In short: Generally database columns are snake_case but property names are camelCase. Eloquent…
Read more »The jQuery and Javascript code snippets you should learn by heart
While jQuery is a great improvement on classic Javascript, it’s still not perfect. What works in version 1.3 doesn’t automatically work in 1.7 and what works in Firefox, doesn’t automatically…
Read more »Location of the fonts in Ubuntu
Most fonts are located in /usr/share/fonts But there isn’t just one folder. You can find the location of all the font folders in /etc/fonts/fonts.conf You can save custom fonts in…
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