Laravel – Specified key was too long Error
Updated 18th May 2021
With Laravel 5.4, some users may be hit with the Laravel Specified key was too long Error when migrating the database. This is because in the latest Laravel update, the developers made changes to the default database charset, making it utf8mb4. If your using MySQL 5.7.7 or higher, you won’t encounter this issue, however older versions of MySQL
JDBC Connector Communication link failure error to MySQL
Updated 3rd January 2024
Are you having trouble connecting to a MySQL database through JDBC Connector in a database management tool such as DBeaver Community Edition? DBeaver fails to connect to a local MySQL database with the error “Communication link failure the last packet sent successfully to the server was 0 milliseconds ago“. Here is a breakdown of this
Create a custom WordPress taxonomy for posts and pages
Updated 16th August 2022
Sometimes when building a website using WordPress, the standard taxonomies Categories and Tags just aren’t enough, and you need to create more. Let’s learn how to create our own custom WordPress taxonomy. WordPress has made creating your own taxonomy easy, and you can even add your custom taxonomies to pages too. To accomplish this we
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