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PDF files are useful for many purposes. It is an acronym for Portable Document Format which provides a file that will display a document the same way on any device, regardless of operating system and other software, as long as a PDF viewer is available. PDF files are nowadays viewable by default on most devices including smartphones and tables. In comparison to web content, PDFs do not have the same intelligent features such as styling and responsiveness. There is also no underlying script language as advanced as Javascript available to web browsers. However, that is not really a problem because PDFs fulfill an entirely different purpose. They are especially useful when it comes ...

One of the common problems with website performance is slow load times due to long response times from the server. The response can be slowed down for various reasons, and thankfully there are also multiple points where optimization can occur. Regardless of network issues on either end of the connection, you can always optimize load times with caching. This may even be a significant improvement, especially when caching database operations. Laravel cache engine In the Laravel framework caching is built into the core and is therefore available in the default installation. You can basically cache anything right from your PHP code. This is useful for caching both direct database results, but also processed ...

Speed of development is a crucial factor for web projects. Especially commercial projects need to stay on top of the development workflow all the time, so new and improved features can be released often and successfully. There is a plethora of tools available to help coding, but many smaller groups work just fine with a basic local development setup and some simple project management. Furthermore mockup and prototyping tools are really helping you speed up development. Therefore consider using the tools below when you need to test solutions for smaller problems or quickly get an overview of an idea. Test Javascript, HTML and CSS online with JsFiddle Using JsFiddle you get a simple web interface where ...

The ability to register and login is the basis for many features on most websites. Therefore authentication is an issue which developers are confronted with in almost every single project. Thankfully the Laravel developers have realized this, and therefore made it very easy to implement authentication. Actually default Laravel installations ship with the required pieces already available. You just need to move a few things into place to make it work for your project. Laravel provides the required controllers for the authentication procedure, but there are no routes active for this purpose by default. This is to avoid opening your web site to authentication unless you want it. Therefore simply add the following ...