Composer is an open source dependency management tool for PHP, created primarily to facilitate the distribution and maintenance of PHP packages as individual application components. It has dramatically changed the PHP...

Docker is a popular open source containerization tool used to provide a portable and consistent runtime environment for software applications, while consuming less resources than a traditional server or virtual machin...

A container is a minimalist, isolated user-space environment that runs at the operating system level and shares system resources with other instances. Containers are designed to provide a portable and consistent runti...

A virtual machine, also commonly referred to as VM, is a guest system running on top of a virtualization software or hypervisor. VirtualBox, VMWare, and QEMU are examples of popular tools that are able to emulate netw...

Ansible is an open source configuration management tool that provides a minimalist server automation framework based on YAML definitions. Its simplified infrastructure requirements and accessible syntax helped make An...

Configuration management is the process of handling changes to a system in a way that assures integrity over time, typically involving tools and processes that facilitate automation and observability. Even though this...

Laravel is a free and open-source PHP framework that provides a set of tools and resources to build modern PHP applications. With a complete ecosystem leveraging its built-in features, and a variety of compatible pack...

The LEMP software stack is a group of software that can be used to serve dynamic web pages and web applications written in PHP. This is an acronym that describes a Linux operating system, with an Nginx (pronounced lik...

phpMyAdmin is an application that allows users to interact with MySQL databases through a web interface. This tutorial outlines the process of installing and securing phpMyAdmin on an Ubuntu 20.04 server running Nginx.

PHP is a general-purpose programming language created by Rasmus Lerdorf in 1994. Originally designed to facilitate building web pages with dynamic components, PHP has seen many changes and improvements since its first...

phpMyAdmin was created so that users can interact with MySQL through an intuitive web interface, running alongside a PHP development environment. In this guide, we'll discuss how to install phpMyAdmin on top of an Ngi...

So far, we’ve seen how to set up the MySQL database tables using migrations, how to create an Eloquent model to interact with the links table, and how to create Artisan commands to manage links in the database. We’ll ...

If you followed along with this series so far, your database tables should be all set by now. However, you still need to implement a way to let users insert new entries in the links table. In this guide, we'll create ...

Eloquent is an object relational mapper (ORM) included by default within Laravel applications. It facilitates the task of interacting with database tables, providing an object-oriented approach to inserting, updating,...

In this guide, you'll create a database migration to set up the table where you'll save the application links. In order to do that, you'll use the Artisan (https://laravel.com/docs/8.x/artisan) command-line tool tha...

In this guide, which is part of the series on How To Create a Links Landing Page in PHP with Laravel and Docker Compose, we'll create a containerized developer environment to run Laravel and start building our applica...

Docker Compose is a tool that allows you to run multi-container application environments based on definitions set in a YAML file. It uses service definitions to build fully customizable environments with multiple cont...