A bug bear that I have had for a while with Drupal content is how come the author of an article is actually their username.  I have an array of reasons to vent my dislike for this strategy... however, instead I will show you how to change it.  Albeit, programmatically!  Don't stress there actually isn't a huge amount of code to add.  In time I'll create a module so no coding is required.   Setting up account fields in the admin area To begin let's add new fields for...

Installing Laravel on an Apache server was going to be a no fuss process said no developer!  Research done.  Documentation looks good and easy to follow.  Time to load Laravel.   The set-up The install notes on Laravel are easy to follow.  Beginning with checking that your server is able to install Laravel. Using shell commands check that your server has the minimum requirements.  To do this run the command php -m -bash-4.1# php -m [PHP...