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PHP Get path in an Laravel application

Laravel framework provides several useful helper methods to get various paths required to access some commonly used directories/folders. app_path() – Laravel app_path helper base_path() – Laravel  helper config_path() – Laravel 
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Enable or Disable Magento 2 Maintenance Mode using CLI / Command Prompt or Files

What is the magento maintenance mode ? When Magento is in maintenance mode, visitors see a Service Temporarily Unavailable message in their web browsers instead of the store. However, authorized
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Enable GZIP compression for Magento 2 Website on Apache/Linux to Make it Load Faster

What is GZIP ? Gzip is a data compression algorithm capable of compressing and decompressing files quickly. How can enabling GZIP can make a website load faster? Websites are getting
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Magento 2 add a user via command line cli

Magento does not allow resetting password of an existing user using the command prompt CLI. But it allows creating new admin users via CLI. Login to the command line and
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What is the SPF record and how it can help your email delivery

In Email sending protocol ( SMTP) , by the nature of it, there is no way of validating the sending address aka the FROM address. This can lead to many
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How to promote your eCommerce business in 2020

As online platforms and publishers look to grab bigger shares of digital commerce budgets, the number and variety of paid and organic formats available to marketers  to promote their e-businesses
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We are now official Linode Solutions Partners

Linode is the world’s largest independent open cloud provider. Today we become an official solutions partner of Linode to provide better infrastructure services for our clients. We use Linode’s open
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Latest Magento 2 Project : BuyFresh.lk is Live

BuyFresh.lk  – Magento powered Ecommerce Website Launched BuyFresh brings organic & semi-organic produce from the central highlands of Sri Lanka via there brand-new ecommerce website www.buyfresh.lk Designed and developed by
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How to Extract a .gz File or directory in Linux using command prompt / terminal / shell / bash

Extract GZ archive file in Linux Terminal To extract the GZ archive to the current directory, use below command. $ gunzip archive.gz .gz files are compressed with gzip compression algorithm.
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Laravel Framework Cheat Sheet

Get laravel app base urbottom: 0px !important;border-top-width: 0px !important; $app->make('url')->to('/'); $app['url']->to('/'); App::make('url')->to('/');
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Laravel Scheduler – Cron Tutorial

Task scheduling is an important part of many web applications. Here are several examples: Check if new emails are received in a specified email accounts inbox, read them and take
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PHP7 Vulnerability that allows hackers to hijack web servers

The PHP programming language that powers most of the Internet based appications. It is used in the popular content management systems like WordPress, Joomla and Drupal, so it’s a big
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All About Site Kit by Google WordPress Plugin

Site Kit by Google is a plugin that brings all the Google related services for any WordPress website under a single dashboard.  It is so well made that it is
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How to check the Laravel version using CLI / command prompt and files on Windows or Linux

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]There are two ways to find the version of your Laravel application . You can either find it by running a command via CLI/ Command Prompt or you can check
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How to Include / Add Custom JavaScript into your WordPress Site

You might need to insert custom Javascript code to WordPress header of Footer when developing your own plugin. There are couple of ways to do this.
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How to set a static front page for my WordPress blog / website?

Step 1 – Create or select a WordPress Page First step is to create the new page. if you want to select an existing page, thats fine too. To create
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Redirect from HTTPS to HTTP – Force HTTP

There are some  scenarios when you want to redirect a website address to be opened through HTTP instead of HTTPS.To do that,  you can add the following htaccess directives  in
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Choosing a Good Color Scheme For Your Website

“I believe that color affects people’s moods” – Lilly Pulitze
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What is the Difference Between Vision and Mission Statements of a Business

The vision statement focuses on the future and what the organization wants to become. The mission statement focuses on the present and what the organization does. While organizations generally use
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Web Developer productivity Tools ( Lazy guys toolkit)

https://json-csv.com/A tool that coverts JSON objects snatched from html pages in to excelsheets where you can manipulate data as you want.
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How to force HTTPS using the .htaccess file in Apache

To force all web traffic to use HTTPS RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} 80 RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.example.com/$1 [R,L]
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Sri Lankan Media Youtube domination

Here you can find the statistics of the top Media channels and accounts from Sri Lanka sorted according to media for the year 2018. Take a look at the Channels
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We were invited to the Infortel Exhibition organized by ICTA

We are proud to be invited to the Infortel Exhibition organized by ICTA to present our products and services. We were able to find many businesses and persons that require
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What is GDPR – General Data Privacy Regulation and What it means for online businesses.

What is GDPR? GDPR is an extensive set of regulations that gives citizens who live in the European Economic Area (EEA) and Switzerland more control over how their personal data
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