Migrating from Laravel 5.6 to version 10 involves significant changes, including updates to syntax, structure, and dependencies. Here's a step-by-step guide to help you through the process: (more…)

Setting up Laragon on Windows is a straightforward process. Laragon is a portable, isolated, fast, and powerful development environment for PHP, Node.js, Python, and Ruby applications. It comes with Apache, MySQL, PHP, and other essential tools pre-configured, making it easy to set up a local development environment. (more…)

When you setup Valet in your Mac, you may encounter an error message "Error: Could not symlink sbin/php-fpm" If you encounter the above error message, try creating the "sbin" folder under /usr/local/ directory and give it the necessary user and folder permission to it. (more…)

In this short tutorial, we will learn to how to create a simple WordPress plugin step by step and to have the plugin activated from the WordPress dashboard. Important names are highlighted to help ease the tutorial navigation. (more…)

To set up a WordPress and phpMyAdmin environment using Vagrant, follow these steps: Install Vagrant: Download and install Vagrant from the official website (https://www.vagrantup.com/). Make sure to also install the required virtualization software, such as VirtualBox or VMware. Choose a Vagrant Box: Select a Vagrant box that suits your needs. For example, you can use the "bento/ubuntu-20.04" box, which provides an Ubuntu 20.04 base image. Initialize your Vagrant project by running the following command in your project directory: (more…)

To set up WordPress in an Ubuntu virtual machine using Vagrant, you can follow these steps:

1. Install VirtualBox: Download and install Oracle VirtualBox from the official website (https://www.virtualbox.org/) for your host operating system.
2. Install Vagrant: Download and install Vagrant from the official website (https://www.vagrantup.com/) for your host operating system.
3. Create a new directory: Create a new directory where you want to set up your Vagrant project.
4. Initialize Vagrant: Open a terminal or command prompt and navigate to the project directory.
5. Run vagrant init hashicorp/bionic64 to initialize vagrant.  This command initializes a new Vagrant project with an Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver) base box.
6. Edit Vagrantfile: Open the Vagrantfile generated in the project directory using a text editor. Modify it to include the following configuration. An example Vagrant file that can be used to set up a WordPress environment in an Ubuntu virtual machine using VirtualBox as the provider:

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