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How to Display Only the Current Date in Laravel (Carbon Examples)
I ran into a small but annoying issue while building a Laravel page that shows “today’s date” at the top…
How to Send a Simple Email in Laravel (Fast SMTP + Mail::raw)
I needed to send a “quick test email” from a Laravel project the other day. Nothing fancy—no templates, no queues,…
Force Close an App in Ubuntu (xkill, System Monitor, kill -9)
I had this happen on Ubuntu more times than I’d like to admit: an app freezes, the window won’t close,…
How to Debug in PHP Like console.log (echo, error_log, WordPress debug.log)
I was working on a PHP project (and a bit of WordPress code) and I kept missing my favorite JavaScript…
How to Temporarily Disable Imunify360 Service (Safe Testing + Fix 503)
I hit a really annoying issue on one of my CloudLinux + cPanel servers: random 503 Service Unavailable errors with…
Login to Laravel Programmatically Without a Password (Auth::login & loginUsingId)
I needed this for a support feature in one of my Laravel projects. A customer would report an issue that…
Hide Out of Stock Products from Homepage in WooCommerce (Keep Them Visible Elsewhere)
I noticed something that was quietly killing my store’s first impression: my homepage product sections were full of Out of…
How to Check if Laravel Scheduler Is Running (Cron + Logs)
I ran into this when a scheduled job (email + cleanup) simply stopped running on one of my Laravel sites.…
How I Fixed the 409 Conflict Error in Laravel (Cookie / Browser / WAF Fix)
I hit a weird one recently: my Laravel app was working fine, then suddenly my browser started showing a 409…
How to Create a Custom Exception Class in Laravel (With Clean JSON Responses)
I used to handle errors in Laravel with random try/catch blocks everywhere. It worked… until it didn’t. One day I…