If you ever get this error “PHP Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 536870912 bytes exhausted ” while running Laravel Valet, check out the path below for Mac users. It seems that this is the specific memory-limit ini file that Valet uses, and you can edit the memory limits there. /usr/local/etc/php/7.0/conf.d/php-memory-limits.ini Note that 7.0 is the … Read more
Sometimes you need to reset node modules package, a common method to clear out any potential errors. Use the following command in the terminal to remove the folder and contents and reinstall packages. You can also do npm update instead of the above, but this will not work if there are no new packages.
Here’s how to add composer vendor bin directory to your path so you can call composer from your terminal. Go to ~/.bash_profile Add the following to your ~/.bash_profile (Mac OS users) or into your ~/.bashrc (Linux users). You can use any text editor to add this line to the file or create a new “.bash_profile” … Read more
Handy guide from Digital Ocean on how to set up the three containers. The only discrepancy I found was that nano wasn’t included in the containers, so you’ll have to use vim instead. https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-laravel-nginx-and-mysql-with-docker-compose
About the course Learning How to Learn is a Coursera course taught by Dr. Barbara Oakley from McMaster University and Dr. Terrence Sejnowski of UC San Diego. The course teaches proven learning techniques backed by modern science and can be used to master a variety of subject. This course gives you easy access to the … Read more
I ran into some trouble running through different tutorials to setup virtual hosts while setting up a local Laravel site. There doesn’t seem to be much consensus on the developers’ preferred local environment. So here’s how to setup virtual hosts on a mac with MAMP. From what I understand this let’s you use a “virtual” … Read more
How to set up a child theme There are a number of tutorials that go over how to set up a child theme. I should know by this point, but there are a few frequent mistakes that are both crucial to the setup process and that other tutorials fail to make explicit. Short-hand list for … Read more
I finally finished the Object Oriented PHP Track! That finished everything I wanted to learn about PHP within Team Treehouse. It’s a huge milestone for me and I’m excited to move on to the next phase of my learning. But what did I think about the OOP track? In, short I felt that the track … Read more
Class Abstract Class Interface Instantiated ✔ X X Extend/Implement Multiple X X ✔ Contract X ✔ ✔ Implementation ✔ ✔ X Single Place Versioning ✔ ✔ X All Methods Public (Access Modifiers) X X ✔ Properties ✔ ✔ X Constants ✔ ✔ ✔ Overridable Constant ✔ ✔ X Type Checked ✔ ✔ ✔ Abstract Class … Read more
Introduction I started with almost zero PHP knowledge beyond copying and pasting snippets of code into WordPress. Team Treehouse’s Beginner’s PHP course gave me the fundamental background on how PHP, and programming in general, works. The Intermediate PHP course gave me the nitty gritty deep dive into the intricacies and quirks of PHP. Before I … Read more
