Faizan
IT and operations professional, PHP & Laravel developer · Saudi Arabia · 14 years of experience
Faizan has spent about 14 years in IT and operations in Saudi Arabia: IT support, networking and CCTV, business software and programming, administration, and running workshop, operations and transport teams. Every guide here comes from a problem he has fixed at work.
HeadsNTail started as notes: the exact error, what caused it, the fix that worked and how to check it. Those notes became the guides and free tools on this site. If something in a guide is wrong or out of date, tell me and I will correct it.
Experience
- IT support & networking: Hardware and software support, office networks, Wi-Fi, servers and CCTV systems for multi-site operations.
- Programming & business software: Operating and building business systems in PHP, Laravel and MySQL: HR and payroll, attendance, reports, websites and internal tools.
- Administration: Day-to-day administration, documentation, staff processes and the systems that support them.
- Workshop management: Running a vehicle workshop: job flow, parts, people and the records behind it.
- Operations & transportation: Managing operations and transportation: planning, dispatch, schedules and keeping several branches running.
What I write about
PHP and Laravel, MySQL, XAMPP on Windows, cPanel hosting and VPS servers, website security and SEO, plus calculators for everyday work in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf (VAT, end-of-service, Hijri dates, amounts in words). See the blog and the free tools.
Latest guides
- Unknown character set index for field received from server
- Cloudflare JS Challenge Is Breaking My SPA: Laravel Fix
- Setting DNS Server to Use With a Curl Request: Fix
- How to Retrieve Data From Database Using Vue in Laravel
- BeanCreationException: Database Type NONE MySQL Fix
- How to Set Variables in a Laravel Blade Template
- Find the Query from query_id in MySQL (InnoDB)
- How to select multiple columns based on a condition in SQL?
- What Is the Host Parameter in mysqli_connect()?
- Export Large Data With Chunk in Laravel-Excel: Fix
- Fix curl (35) ssl3_get_record:wrong version number on Nginx
- php artisan serve: Failed to Listen on 127.0.0.1:8000 (reason: ?)