An easy way to inject the authenticated user, Auth::user(), into any object using the IoC container in Laravel.

Ever wondered how Laravel determines which objects to pass into your classes. This guide explains how automatic dependency resolution works by showing you how to make a basic IoC container. This relies heavily on php reflection api.

Traits were added to php in version 5.4 as a way to introduce horizontal code reuse. They end up being a way to programmatically copy and paste methods into objects. Traits act as php's version of multiple inheritance.

A quick how to guide on redirecting all http routes to https using symfony's routes component.

I hate confirmation links. Those emails you get, that say click here to make sure somebody actually reads this email. I propose an easier way for us as developers to verify that somebody is checking a given email address.

Some quick links from a lightning talk I gave at sfphp's open mic night.

It's just bad practice. Really its annoying and nobody likes having this terrible user expierence.

Ruby on Rails offers a couple different standardized date formats which can be really helpful. I'm personally a huge fan of :db, I hate looking it up all the time. But you may be wondering how to create a custom date format.

This is how to create a model relationship in Ruby on Rails where one model, Message, has two foreign keys to another model, User. The sql tables are defined below, and is given the solution in Ruby and how to retrieve the values.

A short tutorial for rails 3, which covers the development of a forum. This tutorial requires little to no rails experience.

I was trying to figure out to setup AuthLogic in Rails 3 and ran into several issues. This is a step by step guide in setting it up.

Drinking the Sphinx Search koolaid runs to issues with geo search. Here I explain the short comings of Sphinx Search Geo Location functionality.