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Initial look at the Laravel PHP framework

Over the last few years I’ve had great experiences and results using Symfony2 to build web apps. It was the first framework I really explored and used to any extent and the focus on MVC really helped my progression as a developer. For a project I needed to...

Using Git to deploy live/dev sites

Deploying to live/dev Deployment to the live server consists of creating a bare repo in a location on the server accessible via SSH, then pushing to that. A hook script is setup inside this repo to pull any changes out into the working directory for that particular...

Creating a Symfony2 Custom Exception Handler

I wanted to be able to handle 404 , 500 errors etc. in my own way. The first step is to create your custom error404.html.twig template. The issue I was having was that I had a dynamic menu (amongst other things) that were then not available to the view. Using the...