As I continue learning Laravel, often I find the need to create basic features for my sample applications. A common feature is the ability to assign users to a role. While role management packages for this feature already exist, I decided to build one myself and use it as a learning experience.
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Product developer at WPEngine and runner from Schaumburg, Illinois. I work with php and Python; Spending most of my time digging into source code to see how it all works.
Using a Separate SQLite Database with Laravel Dusk
Laravel Dusk was released with Laravel 5.4 and gave developers an incredibly easy API to create and run automated browser tests. However, I came across an issue while running browser tests with SQLite.
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WordPress provides filters for sanitizing and authenticating your custom post meta. These filters have been around since 3.3 — and until now — were unknown to me. I happened to be reading Tadlock’s content-type-standards repository on Github and noticed some references to register_meta().
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