Why Do URLs Get Messy With Tracking Parameters — and How to Keep Them Clean
If you’ve ever shared a link from a website and noticed a long string of characters attached to the end — something…
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Category: Concrete CMS
How to Install and Use MailHog on macOS (Perfect for Laravel Herd, Concrete CMS, or Any PHP App)
When developing email features locally, using PHP’s mail() or even SMTP to real addresses can be unreliable or unsafe. You might accidentally…
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Understanding Entity and Model Classes in Concrete CMS
Entity vs. Model in PHP Example of an Entity Class (Doctrine ORM in Concrete CMS) This class represents a User entity that…
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Repository-Based Service in Concrete CMS In Concrete CMS, using repositories for data access is a best practice when working with Doctrine ORM.…
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Helper and Service Classes in Concrete CMS
Helper and Service Classes in Concrete CMS In Concrete CMS, you can use Helper and Service classes to keep the application structured,…
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How to set up ExchangeCore LDAP Authentication with concrete5?
In this post, I will cover the following topics. Now, let’s start. Create AWS Simple AD If you don’t have an AWS…
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Adding Free SSL Certificate and HTTPS to Nginx on Amazon Linux with Let’s Encrypt and Certbot
Certbot is an ACME client which enables HTTPS on your website deploying Let’s Encrypt certificates. Let’s Encrypt is a free, automated, and…
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Automate concrete5 site performance testing with Blackfire
Automation is key to continuously manage application performance. Blackfire provides a feature that helps developers trigger performance tests on an application and…
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Monitor various AWS services on Mackerel using CloudWatch API
Mackerel is a server monitoring service that also supports AWS cloud products. Using the CloudWatch (an AWS monitoring service) API, various AWS…
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Send an Email Using Amazon SES on concrete5
In this post, I’ll show how to send email using Amazon SES with concrete5. We will walk through how to verify that…
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Install concrete5 with composer
About Composer Composer is a tool for dependency management in PHP. It allows you to declare the libraries your project depends on…
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Develop concrete5 site with valet and make a CLI alias to save development time
[This article is for beginners only.] Nowadays the Laravel valet is so popular with web developers for its simplicity and ease of…
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