A story of one hypothetical bug, who is to blame (junior or senior developer, or both?), and how to actually properly fix it so everyone would be happy.

Nowadays, we have a lot of Laravel tutorial about some syntax or package, but I think there’s not enough written with real-life mini-projects, close to real demands of the clients.

Demo of a Countries Seeder that we generate in QuickAdminPanel. But you can use it without our generator, there's a link to Github repository.

Personal video about business side of my Laravel web-dev agency, and how I lost some money while making some wrong decisions in the beginning of projects. A lesson for myself, and may be useful to you, guys, too.

Don't you have when clients change scope of work in the middle/end of the project? Sucks, right? But I will give you a reason why it's a GOOD thing - both for yourself, and the client.

I’ve just finished reading a new (free!) e-book by Basecamp team, called “Shape up”. It’s a quick 1–2 hours long read, but if you have only 5 minutes and want my opinion, this is the article for you. This book is about Basecamp’s philosophy and processes for planning the work.

Laravel Vapor is a serverless deployment platform for Laravel, powered by AWS. Launch your Laravel infrastructure on Vapor and fall in love with the scalable simplicity of serverless.

Taylor Otwell, the creator of Laravel, gives the keynote address at Laracon US 2019 on Day 1. In the talk, Taylor gives an update of the Laravel Ecosystem, shows off the new Laravel Logo and Website, talks about staffing at Laravel and gives an introduction to Laravel Vapor.

We're at Laracon US 2019 and Taylor Otwell is speaking, introducing a lot of things including Laravel Vapor. I'm going to let Laravel News cover everything other than Vapor.

Vapor is a serverless deployment platform for Laravel powered by AWS Lambda. A lot is happening under the hood, some real magic, but the most interesting part of the whole thing is the serverless technology underneath. Let's dive into serverless as I'll try to explain what happens when you run your laravel application serverless.

Today at Laracon, Taylor announced Laravel 6 will be coming out in August and it will be version 6.0. With this release the framework will include new branding and a new website.

The first Laracon day is over and there is much stuff to talk about! The day was full of amazing talks, people and news.

After some hours for trial and error, I’ve came up with this basic .travis.yml file ready to work with my Laravel project. Note: my Laravel is 5.8 version and it works with MariaDB and PHP 7.2.

Matheus Nunes PuppeJul 20 · 1 min readDB::enableQueryLog(); // Enable query log// Your Eloquent querydd(DB::getQueryLog()); // Show results of log

In recent decades the PHP community has gone through some major changes. First, we saw billion-dollar platforms like Facebook adopting PHP as a primary language. Then tools like the Laravel framework quickly rose in popularity as it enabled the community to quickly build modern applications.

I have very big project ahead of me and good chunk of that is pages that client wants to manage from backend, like in wordpress, with language support. But, a lot of the pages and most of the websites functionality is custom pages.

A lot of us feel clumsy when dealing with plugins, you don’t know what it receives to get the job done, or what it sends to fulfill its needs or its purpose of creation.

Returns difference between dates without public holidays and weekends. Works for different countries.

“Whatever can go wrong, will go wrong”, states the well known Murphy’s Law. Lots of people will be able to relate to this popular adage, but especially in software this is a law to take into account: hope for the best, but be prepared for the worst.

Sometimes I need to create a Service in my application. Think something like a very complicated repository for Users, and API implementation with underlying drivers, a Factory to create some complicated information, whatever you can imagine that can’t be contained in just one file.

Performance issues suck. Customers are frustrated. Your servers are overloaded. Management is breathing down your neck. You've already solved all your N+1 issues, added the necessary indexes, and you're even paying for the most expensive database server available.

As the name and docs suggest, i guess the main use of this should be... well... form requests or POST requests in general.

Decided to switch up and use UUIDs. I can fetch access tokens fine, but when using them I get a 401. I've overwritten the migrations to use strings, the column is still 'id' but now using string not an integer.

When building websites with any kind of user registration, it's fascinating what people enter in name fields. no casing, Random CASING, a dozen spaces    between     words, or nospacingatall. Seeing this always irritates me, I'd fancy things to nice and be consistent.

The Laravel framework feels magical in large part because it heavily uses PHP’s “magic methods” to add many conveniences. As a quick example, when you access name from the User model:

Below I’m going to go through the steps to configure and implement the laravel-websockets package into an existing Laravel + Vue application. The following assumes you have a basic to-do app set up with a structure similar to this: Right now we currently have a single model (Item.

PHP helper functions are developed intrinsically to speed up, similar repetitive tasks. They make your work flow conveniently for operating with arrays & objects, paths, strings, URLs and different types.

This tutorial for newbie developers which learned the basics of Laravel framework and want to apply knowledge into action. In this tutorial, LAMP stack or any related software like (Xampp, Wamp..), and composer.

When we talk about Object Oriented Programming in PHP, there are three most common features out of the complete object model come into involve almost regularly in many applications and these are Interfaces, Traits and Abstract Classes.

You’ve probably seen facial detection before. As soon as you upload that family photo to Facebook, you’ll notice the boxes around all detected faces. And with facial recognition, it sometimes even auto-tags the correct friend too.

I was recently tasked by a client to create another ‘one of those application-like websites — the ones that don’t load ?’; it’s actually called a SPA (Single Page Application). My forte being back-end development with PHP(Laravel), I knew I could use laravel’s buddy Vue.

What is Docker?Docker is a tool designed to make it easier to create, deploy, and run applications by using containers. Containers allow a developer to package up an application with all of the parts it needs, such as libraries and other dependencies, and ship it all out as one package.

Most of a server-side / back-end developer’s role will involve integrating with, or serving up APIs. In this short series, we’re going to make our own very basic JSON API using Laravel. We looked at what APIs do, and what kind of functionality we’re looking to acheive with this little series.

Laravel EB is a sample configuration to help you deploy a Laravel app on an AWS Elasitc Beanstalk PHP environment. Download the configuration files and drop the .ebextensions folder directly in your project root.

Inside of our QuickAdminPanel generator, we use Spatie MediaLibrary package for file uploads. And our customers often ask as questions about it, so we decided to compile the most popular ones and answer them in one article. It can be useful for any Medialibrary user, even without QuickAdminPanel.

Quick tip on why it's convenient to use constants instead of just some numbers.

No.1 reason why projects are not finished on time is (mis)communication. Here are my tips how we, as developers, can help the clients to get back to us quicker.

We can define Design Patterns as solution templates for some specific problem often encountered within a software project. They serve as templates to apply to develop a solution to problems.

PhpStorm 2019.2 is now available! Along with performance and stability improvements, this major release brings new features such as support for PHP 7.

One day, I decided to make a example project with a lot of routes. Quickly my web.php file started to show cracks. Like almost 1000 lines of declaring routes even with some of the helpers. Until I discovered two simple solutions. What I did in the last bolded line of code was simple.

files to describe their routes. Since they’re small, there is no much to write and is sane to keep it under 50 or less. Others, may have more than 50, even hundreds of routes. Instead of keep writing in a single file, you can organize your routes using multiple files.

In this tutorial, you will learn how to deploy ElasticSearch in a Docker container and integrate with your Laravel application. I assume that you already have a Laravel application setup. I’m using Ubuntu 18.04 and would be working a lot with bash.

In case you didn’t know, Laravel includes authorization mechanisms to gracefully authorize an authenticated over a particular action or resource. As a reminder, here is the basics: Gates can act over any logic, like authorizing a user to see the Administration Dashboard if he is an “admin”.

This a part of my “JSON APIs with Laravel” series. If you’ve missed parts 1, or two, you can find them at the bottom of this article URLS? ? Let’s do this!

Jeremy chats with Taylor Otwell about Laravel Vapor, a new service that lets you deploy your Laravel PHP applications to Amazon Web Services and run them using a fully managed suite of serverless components.

Like many others, I’ve had issues keeping my virtual machine time in sync. Ever come back to your VM console, try to run a command, and see something similar to: Then you have too.

It's 2019, your Laravel based project needs a CMS, what would you go with and why? I have thought about Nova, Twill, and Statamic. It almost seems easier to just build one myself?....haha famous last words I know, but the other options all seem only ok.

Image upload is one of the most essential features of any social application.

I was wondering on how to add multi-tenancy support to my new project and after researching some of the ready-to-use packages out there i found this article of Ollie Read.This is a perfect starting point and is very well explained, so thank you Ollie Read.

Yey! We are ready to build it! 1. Go to the BotFather and get your Bot token and shhh… it`s a secret token.

Laravel Soft Cascade is a package that makes it easy to perform soft cascade deletes and restores on related models using soft deleting. I’ve always used MySQL foreign key constraints to cascade delete related records.

With the Laravel Schemaless Attributes Laravel package by Spatie, you can add schemaless attributes to Eloquent relational models. The readme of the package sums up this package perfectly:

Follow along as I document my work, life and projects. Almost all projects will eventually need some sort of user login which is why this is such an important part of your project to get right.

Do not make your code unintelligible to others, because you might be one of the others who read the unintelligible code after one week. Always supervise yourself by bearing in mind that another developer may take a long time to process bugs if your code snippets have some faults.

It was 7:07 am. I woke up to 56 emails, 17 tweets, 9 Slack messages, and 4 telegrams. All of which alerting me my SaSS product had sent 3,625 email messages to 1,544 users overnight. I am Jack's cold sweat. ? This is a postmortem.

Inspiring interviews with successful self-taught and bootcamp developers.

In our QuickAdminPanel, we had simple API generator for quite a while, we’ve even released its open-source version as a package. But the most often question from our customers was “how to handle authorization in that API?”. Today, we finally have an answer for that, with a new version release.

Quick review of the package: https://github.com/calebporzio/onboard

Default belongsToMany relationship in Laravel works really well – you can easily attach, detach or sync records. But what if you want to order pivot records by newest or oldest? This article will show you how. Here’s how default pivot table is described.

There are situations where you need to get array of IDs for some records in collection/table. I will show you two quick ways to do it – one is pretty popular, and another is a function which I found out only today. Imagine, that you have hasMany() relationship – one Role has many Permissions.

Quick Demo of Global Search module. See more: https://2019.quickadminpanel.com

Reddit post about published "Laravel Cloud" project by Taylor which was unreleased. After some time, Taylor had to take down the project, but you can still read comments in this Reddit thread.

This [pull request] adds an easy way to have job specific middleware for queued jobs.

I am on the way to learn symfony because of the unknown reasons for not using laravel in my workplace.

For those of you following Laracon 2019, you may have seen the amazing new package from Caleb Porzio called Livewire. As described on his site: Livewire is a full-stack framework for Laravel that makes building dynamic front-ends as simple as writing vanilla PHP (literally).

At this point you will have UTC to user’s timezone conversion out of the box; BUT when you query the database for ranges it’ll be in UTC right?

Credit where is due. Last year I stumbled upon an article of Josip Crnković, in which he walked through some of the useful interfaces the framework has. In it, he discovers some that are used to send a Response to the browser.

If you want the code, jump to the Laralocker package. Some days ago I was tasked to handle a ticketing sale system that was painfully slow to process.

Hi i've been using laravel for like a year and i'm starting to learn vue right now. Let's just say i'm building a regular blog, not a single application or anything and i want to make some simple ajax requests for replying to a comment for example, am i better off just using jquery? or is still recommended to use a front end framework like vue?

Authentication in Laravel Tutorial for PHP applications. (see shortcuts below to key points) Adam Culp of Beachcasts php programming videos shares how to create authentication in Laravel using the Artisan make:auth command.Please * LIKE, COMMENT, AND SUBSCRIBE * - and share with others!Key Topics:-

Automatically generate sitemaps on your dockerised Laravel app with ease. Featuring spatie/laravel-sitemap. Generating sitemaps has always been a chore…But you don’t have to do that! Introducing spatie/laravel-sitemap! A wonderful Laravel package that does all the hard work for you!

Laravel is completely a mystery because even if you are an experienced developer you will toil hard to learn its core functionality. One of the functionalities is, its Service Providers, on which I am going to give a detailed overview. These are really simpler than you have imagined, I hope so..

Have you ever walked on the beach watching the beautiful sunset and wondering how can I boot a Laravel project on Docker? Me neither, but here we are. Since you are already here, you might already have some idea about Docker.

I was planning to write a few articles about PHP Unit for the beginner. Today, finally I got a chance to do that. In this series of article, I am going to show you how to use PHP Unit in PHP for the absolute beginner.

The service container is a quite complex topic, and I see many struggling to understand what it does. It was the same for me, and the main reason is that many explanations concentrate on "how" to use the container.

Last week at Laracon US I gave a talk titled Eloquent Performance Patterns. In that talk I used a custom Laravel Debugbar metric I created to track how many Eloquent models were being hydrated throughout a request.

Imagine your website has some date input field with date picker. And after you deliver full project, client comes back with request: “By the way, date format should be m/d/y”. Quite a big change in all forms, huh?

Highly recommended video. Freek shares some simple tips and tricks he and his team have learned while building apps with Laravel. This video was recorded at Laracon US 2019 on July, 24th, 2019 at the PlayStation Theater in NYC.

In our August edition of PHP Annotated, read about the future of PHP. Is it P++ or PHP2020? Get the latest on PHP 7.4.0 beta 2, Slim 4, and other releases. We cover Laracon US, as well as share other links for Laravel and Symfony, useful tools, videos, and a whole lot more!

In this article, we mainly introduce how to use PHP to build a microservices architecture. Knowing that PHP is also advancing with the times, it is also capable of supporting microservice architectures for large systems.

Caching technique allows to create much more scalable applications by remembering some query results using fast in-memory storage engines. However, incorrectly implemented caching can dramatically reduce application's user experience. This article is about the caching basics, main rules and taboos.

Sending e-mails with laravel couldn't be simpler using the Mail facade, but what if you want to act on incoming e-mails instead? For example, if you want to build a helpdesk system, where users can respond to their tickets directly via e-mail.

We're very excited to announce the immediate availability of Cashier v10. This new Cashier release is a major update with lots of changes to Cashier's internals and public API.

That’s how my config file will look like, intentionally i had performance key as array for demostration. Now i want to store these inside the database, and for that i have to create a migration (with or without model), preferably with a controller to keep things clean.

As a previous front-end developer, this is my first time working on a project that uses a framework (my previous job mostly focuses on layouts and website aesthetics). Given that it was a first-timer’s mistake, ignoring the usage of cache is quite a big one. What exactly happens?

Almost every Laravel application has some kind of contact form publically available. Keeping these forms easy to submit is a requirement for your users. The problem is, you’ll be bombarded with SPAM emails multiple times a day.

Easy to use service for chunked upload with several js providers on top of Laravel's file upload. In your own controller create the FileReceiver, more in example.

Say you're designing something like Google Drive. What do you think would be the best way to architect the models? Would there be a "VideoFile" model and a "GoogleSheet" model, etc? Or should everything be under the "File" model, with a "type" attribute?

Can you please point me to some standard ways/best practices for optimising the controller ( & model) functionality code so that it can be used for both web and API routes.

API’s have evolved and continue to evolve, of course. Stepping into modern API development and infrastructure can be tough with so many acronyms such as SOAP, REST & GraphQL running around. In this series, we are going to look at how to build our own GraphQL server using Laravel.

When you use Laravel to work with shared hosting, one of the main problems is that you can not configure a host directly to the public folder. Development environment:Use the base Laravel configuration with no change, in this way you can use artisan serve or valet to serve your app.

Maintaining code quality can be a challenge and harder in large projectsdeveloped by many programmers. Each person may have different opinionsabout how to write code such as code styles and different ways toapproach problems which can result unmaintainable code overtime.

In the previous post, I introduced a package that allowed you to filter for your Eloquent models in Laravel. As you can see here. As I explained earlier,you may need to filter a model in your project like User model.For example, filtering users based on gender, age, online / offline status and etc.

Tailwind.run() is an online service by Utkarsh Kukreti providing “fiddle” or “pen” style features for Tailwind CSS in the browser, even allowing build-time configuration features interactively. Using this service, you can skip the setup if you want to experiment or share something.

In this blog post, we will learn, how to add watermark to an image in Laravel 5.8 application, to add watermark to images we will use intervention image composer package in Laravel 5.8. we can add image or text as a watermark on the image in Laravel. For more doc, you can follow

In this post, we will learn how to implement the Open-Closed Principle in Laravel. This is the continuation of the previously posted article Apply The Open Closed Principle in Laravel | Part 1 . I highly recommend you to read the previous one before continuing this.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again, one of the biggest benefits of using a framework is that so many common use-cases or problems have already been solved - and throttling requests is no different.

GitHub Actions is an API for cause and effect on GitHub: orchestrate any workflow, based on any event, while GitHub manages the execution, provides rich feedback, and secures every step along the way.

Blade is the simple templating engine provided with Laravel which is powerful as well. All Blade views are compiled into plain PHP code and cached until they are modified. Blade view files use the .blade.php file extension and they are stored into resources/views directory.

When I signed on to join the team at Qualified last month, I ran the company through the diligence process that I use to assess opportunities at technology start-ups. Great product? Check. Strong growth trajectory? Check. Awesome customers? Check. A team I'm excited to be a part of? Check.

Some time ago I came across this article on Harvard Business School’s Working Knowledge blog about when founding CEOs need to go. It’s from 2005, but it is still just as relevant now.

My own personal struggle, and some thoughts about it.

Do you help your clients with specifications? Do they want to pay for it? Here are my thoughts.

I confess – during five years of working with Laravel, I’ve been fascinated by its “magic” and how little code is needed to actually make things work. But recently, as my projects grew in size, that “magic” started to become a problem.

Quite often in e-shops you can see many level of categories and subcategories, sometimes even unlimited. This article will show you how to achieve it elegantly with Laravel Eloquent. We just have a name field, and then relationship to the table itself.

Demo project of how you can handle Team registration in Laravel - basically, adding 5th field of Team Name to default register form. Also, this demo-project contains Team Multi-Tenancy, where each team member sees only the records by their team name. Project is partly generated by our QuickAdminPanel.

If you receive error on "composer install" saying something about incompatible versions, how to know which version of the package would successfully install with your Laravel version and PHP version of your server? Here's a real-life demo example, based on Spatie Laravel Backup package.

Full YouTube playlist with awesome talks from the conference.

See new laravel.com and discuss it on Reddit.

Laravel's website is made with Laravel, and now you can see the source code and learn something.

The creator of Laravel Shift and Laracon speaker Jason McCreary announced the release of his course Confident Laravel – from no tests to confidently tested. Of the 15,000 Laravel applications upgraded by Shift, only 17% have tests.

In my last article we looked at what object caching is and how and when to use it to improve the performance of a Laravel application. One simple way to instantly improve the performance of a Laravel application is to offload time-consuming tasks to a queue job.

GitHub recently announced a new release of GitHub Actions which allows you to automate workflows in response to events that occur in your repos. One key new feature in the new release is the ability to use GitHub as your CI/CD tool.

In-depth article. What do you need to know about Laravel Validator?

GraphQL in itself is a specification describing a new way an app or web frontend asks for data from the server. This specification is built into libraries we end up implementing on our server-side as well as the client-side of our apps.

Laravel documentation is probably one of the best out there considering it explains almost everything in a clear way. It’s your best ally when developing an application, but not all pages share the same love. For me, those are the Collection and Verification available methods.

Artisan’s tinker command is a great way to tinker with your application in the terminal. Unfortunately running a few lines of code, making edits, and copy/pasting code can be bothersome. Wouldn’t it be great to tinker in the browser?

I’m happy to write about the new solution from Taylor Otwell, the founder of Laravel, the most impressive PHP Framework of this century. Laravel Vapor is a serverless deployment platform for Laravel, powered by AWS.

Eloquent Hashids is a package by Mohammad Ali Tavassoli that give you on-the-fly hashids for Laravel Eloquent models.

Send emails with Laravel is very easy with mailables, it has many uses like contact forms, to confirm subscriptions, for newsletters, to send reports, ect. In this article I want to talk about different options to create Mailables and how to use it in real world with Sendgrid free plan service.

Which is the recommended platform / right tool for the job - for building stateless APIs in 2019 - Laravel or Lumen? That being said - if that's "all I'm doing" with Laravel - does it make sense to switch to using Lumen for those APIs?

Today, I will impart to you how to make custom middleware in Laravel 5.8 application. I compose well ordered instructional exercise of the utilization of middleware in PHP Laravel 5.8 undertaking. You will see how to ensure your site utilizing middleware in Laravel 5.8.

Setup secure https URLs for development on local machine guide. Change port 8080 to 80 with https and local dev domain. Easy to manage and one step setup using Valet.

If you are not familiar with Inertia.js, it’s a framework for quickly building modern single-page React and Vue.js applications using classic server-sider routing and controllers. To learn more check out inertiajs.

In May this year, I've released a new side project: Laravel Download Statistics. The idea for this project started while talking with a colleague about which Laravel versions a new or existing package should support.

It’s been a long time since I have written something here, but I don’t want to write articles for the sake of “keeping the blog alive”, screw that. Well, I finally have a story to tell. I finally launched the new version of Sizzy last month.

Lately there was a lot of talk on twitter about the 10x engineer which started a big debate about what makes a good engineer.

How does mentoring work? I asked this question ten years into my software engineering career when I joined Uber. Until then, I've never received or done mentoring, or at least never put this label on any activity I've done before. Uber, however, had an official mentoring program.

Quick example of a code I had to write recently. Task is simple – upload CSV and parse it. Also save that file and the record, which user uploaded it. Let’s take a look.

My tweet that became very popular, with 100+ likes.

If you have a large ecosystem with multiple applications, it’s nice to have a common user account which you can use to authenticate in these separate applications. So when a user authenticates any of these apps, they will be logged in everywhere. So let’s get started.

This article will give you an overall explanation of refactoring in software development. We will explore the theory and then present some examples from real life. But, as I always say, no explanation is complete without clarifying the benefits and challenges first. Let’s get to it, shall we?

Laravel offers a bunch of useful and handy directives that we can use in our templates. But easily, we can face a situation that we repeat some code in our blade files. In this case, it’s possible that we can refactor some code to its own directive.

I'm trying to figure out how you can send an email to my app and Laravel stores that data into the database. For example, a user sends an email to help@company.com and then the subject, body and other information is parsed through my app. Any ideas?

DB::transaction seems to be a really easy way to roll-back long, complex processes that persist data a various points that could also fail at various points. I'm curious of the downsides, if any, of over-using it?

This is my first story writing about issues and solutions when working with Laravel. Please let me know your comments! Using the whereIn method on a QueryBuilder or Eloquent model can become very slow.

Prop “authuser” is passed to component , but the declared prop name is “authUser”. Note that HTML attributes are case-insensitive and camelCased props need to use their kebab-case equivalents when using in-DOM templates.

This is a 2019 edition of one of our most popular articles about Laravel and Elasticsearch. Searching is an important part of applications, and it can be overlooked as a simple task. “Just add some LIKE boolean matches and we are good to go”.

According to statistics, PHP is still the most popular server-side programming language used by almost 80% of the internet. Among PHP frameworks, Laravel is one of the most popular and widely used. Do you use Laravel in your production environment?

This tutorial describes a TDD approach to refactor code to Replace Constructors with Creation Methods pattern.

The Laravel team is proud to announce the release of Laravel 6 and it’s now available to everyone. This release marks the start of the Laravel framework (laravel/framework) using Semantic Versioning.

Laracasts has started a “What’s new in Laravel 6” series to get you up to speed on all the features in this release.

If you’ve been following my work for any length of time, you know that I am a big fan of pushing more work in our Laravel applications to the database layer.

Today at Laracon EU, Marcel Pociot and I unveiled Ignition, a beautiful new error page for Laravel. It is the new default error screen in Laravel 6 and you can manually install it into Laravel 5 applications. In this blog post, I'd like to tell you all about it.

Laravel 6 is Released and it’s now available to everyone. This release includes compatibility with Laravel Vapor, improved authorization responses, job middleware, lazy collections, sub-query improvements, semantic versioning, among many other improvements.

Laravel 6.0 comes with a new error page with a very nice design. It contains multiple tabs with helpful hints about the request, the app/framework, user, context, and debug. The frontend scaffolding that was provided with Laravel 5.x releases is now separated into a different repository.

Since the inception of Laravel 5.0 around 4.5 years ago, the Laravel ecosystem has blossomed into something that leaves users nothing to complain about, to say the least.

Today at Laracon EU, Marcel Pociot and I introduced Flare, a new error tracker built for Laravel apps. Our service also works hand in hand with the new error page we've launched called Ignition.

I was trying to figure out how I would write docs for my site. I started with docsify, which does look pretty great, but then stumbled upon Larecipe. It was super easy to install and get running and I already have pages and pages of great looking, easy to follow docs.

As a freelancer, this looks like it covers a lot of the things I need and do spread over multiple places currently, so it is very interesting.

Introduction I am a huge fan of TDD, already wrote a couple of articles in this topic. In one of my recent projects I used Introduction Tracking down what happens in JavaScript code is not always trivial, especially when many event handlers and/or asynchronous ajax calls are involved.

Then all you need to do is to add a few lines to your php.ini file which you can locate with your phpinfo() function. The first line is where your application is located. You need to create this cachegrindfolder so xDebug can store the files.

In some cases you need to compare a string given by a user with some password stored and encrypted in the database, the typical case is to auth a user from an API.

This post has been published first on DevGrill. This is a 3 part series that shows how to build a real-world chat application with one on one chat feature like facebook or twitter using Laravel and Vuejs, also demystify the complexity of the inner works.

Lumen, as we already know is a micro-framework by Laravel well suited for developing micro-services and APIs.

One day I was tasked to build an API with Laravel for an external team of developers to work with. Through this project, I learned a little more about pagination which I’d like to share. Now you may already know how Laravel pagination works.

In this article I assume you have installed docker and docker-compose successfully regardless your environment is. Otherwise, you can visit docker documentation on how to do that. To set up a Laravel project with Docker, first we need to create a Laravel project.

In this tutorial I will be setting up my new Laravel website (ericbusch.ca) on Digital Ocean using Laravel Forge. Laravel Forge makes it trivial to get your Laravel app up and running on Digital Ocean (and other providers).

A year ago, I started working full-time at Bloomberg. That’s when I imagined writing this post. I imagined myself to be full of ideas that I could spit out on paper when the time comes. Just one month in, I realised it won’t be that easy: I was already forgetting things I learnt.

Laravel and Wordpress are with no doubt the most recognized open-source projects in the PHP community. The first one gives developers complete freedom and flexibility like no other framework before.

We are starting to invest more into demo-projects of how to customize stuff in Laravel. In this small lesson – how to add username field to users table, and allow users to login with username.

Quick Demo of User Alerts module. See more: https://2019.quickadminpanel.com

Discussion on Reddit with 127 comments.

Looks pretty cool, but the demo site doesn’t list credentials anywhere so it’s useless. Annoying about the demo details, but looks useful.

Test Time is a package by Spatie that provides a helper for Carbon v2 to control the flow of time in PHPUnit tests.

Everyday we need to run some task automatic in the web server for various purpose, Suppose we have a SASS product and a lot of user using it by monthly subscription So, we need to check which user monthly subscription payment paid or not paid.

GitHub Actions (https://github.com/features/actions) is a powerful tool provided by GitHub for continuous integration. GitHub Actions allows you to execute some commands when a GitHub event is triggered.

Pain points of insufficient documentation. Laravel 6.0, upgrade causes email verification to fail if using custom verification and not Auth::routes(['verify' => 'true'])

I encounter this issue while working on an application for a client recently. Instead of using a JWT library build for Laravel, I used firebase/php-jwt to generate and authenticate users. Don’t ask why as there were many reasons behind this decision.

The latest version of PHP 7.4 is coming soon. Release candidate 1 (the first of 6 planned RCs) was just released on 5th September and 7.4 is scheduled for General Availability on November 28, 2019.

Writing migrations in Laravel can sometimes be cumbersome and prone to mistakes. This is especially the case when adding new columns to an existing table. For example, it is easy to forget to update the after() method. Let’s take the following migration as an example.

In this article I am going to go over some helpful packages to make your life easier as a Laravel developer. LaRecipe is simply a code-driven package provides an easy way to create beautiful documentation for your product or application inside your Laravel app.

You might have noticed after installing a fresh Laravel 6 application that the make:auth command no longer exists. We’ve received lots of messages and emails about this very issue, so I thought I’d write up a quick tutorial on generating auth scaffolding in Laravel 6.

In this article I’m going to build a Single Page Application (SPA) with Laravel 5.8, Vue.js, Vue Router and a Tailwind CSS landing page template.

Heroku is a cloud platform as a service(PaaS). One of the first cloud platforms supporting several programming languages. First I install a fresh Laravel on my local server (XAMPP\htdocs) file. Then create a repository of this file. Add to Github have many useful reason.

The Laravel 6.0 Shift automates the upgrade of your Laravel application from Laravel 5.8 to Laravel 6.0. Using the Laravel 6.0 Shift to automatically upgrade your Laravel application has an estimated time savings of 1 hour. It's important to remember Laravel 6.0 is the latest version.

Last week, I got access to the new GitHub Actions v2.0, which is way different than the first version they have released. You can think of it as a world-class CI/CD solution GitHub Actions makes it easy to automate all your software workflows, now with world-class CI/CD.

TL;DR: This post introduce FastExcel for Laravel, gives a quick overview over PHP generators and finally shows how to use both to generate Excel files from collections while preserving memory.

Quick "trick" for how to test different time, if your code depends on *current* time or date.

Demo live-building of Laravel 6 project to track expenses, also showing how to customize the code after download from QuickAdminPanel, and how to push code to Github.Result repository.

Post with 90 comments, highly recommended.

Today GitHub announced new dependency graph support for PHP repositories with Composer dependencies. This means that PHP repositories will get security alerts, automatic security fixes, dependency insights, and more.

Laravel Multilingual Routes is a package by Chin Leung to register multilingual routes for your application. Instead of doing the following: The package also ships with a middleware that automatically detects and changes the locale of the application based on the request.

I have an interactive website with games and activities for users to enjoy. I have basically used jQuery exclusively on top of Laravel 5.5. I see all the hubbub about Vue and gave it a shot for a couple of my games and I still don't get it.

It’s possible that we need a bit more control over our markdown email templates. Maybe we want to hide the header or the footer, but we can’t achieve that on the usual way. Usually, we use the @component (‘mail::message’) component to handle markdown templates.

In this series of articles, I will talk about the Pipeline package that comes with Laravel but nobody uses it and it’s not documented. Why? Because it’s amazing. Sometimes, some applications must deal with modifying something.

For a long time, I’ve been looking how to make a reliable, simple but efficient webstore with PayPal integration in Laravel. After discovering how, I instantly presented mine to senior developers and the Laravel community, that granted alot of useful feedback.

Fuko\Masked is a small PHP library by Kaloyan Tsvetkov for masking sensitive data by replacing blacklisted elements with a redacted value.

Simple Laravel API response wrapper. The API Response is a free package released under the MIT License.

This article is part of a series where I document insights, changes and rethinking that I experienced while refactoring the codebase for Pulse — a painless and affordable site & server monitoring tool designed for developers. Today, I’d like to talk about adding user-level settings.

Hi, I’m Valerio a software engineer and Laravel-certified developer based in Naples, Italy. This guide is for all PHP developers that have an application online with real users, but they need a deeper understanding of how to introduce or improve scalability in their system using Laravel queues.

I'm extremely confused by the many answers I have found on the internet. For two weeks I am trying to figure out what is the best way to store a JWT client-sided. After reading so many opinions, I went for HTTP Only and Secure cookies authentication. This means a JWT is being set into a cookie.

Observer makes communication between components easier and reduces necessity of their strict coupling (making them closely connected to each other). Client simply does not has to know who and how will respond to sent notification.

Kayvan AlimohammadiSep 14 · 5 min readwhen we start building software, we can see many code’s incompatibilities. this is because of many codes have written based on different contracts.

Laravel Eloquent uses Collections to return the results. Collections contains very useful methods that makes them very powerful and helpful to use. You can filter them, modify them and much more with them very conveniently. We will be looking at laravel collection methods in this tutorial.

While building ContestKit there was a feature I wanted to allow users to know if the emails that were sent to the winners were delivered successfully. Thankfully this feature is relatively easy to add because of Mailgun's amazing API. Let's create a new Laravel application and get started.

Introduction This is the first post of the new “Under the hood” series where I’ll try to explain how things work behind the scenes. I Introduction I am a huge fan of TDD, already wrote a couple of articles in this topic. In one of my recent projects I used

Laravel 6 introduced the LazyCollection, a different kind of collection which exploits php generators to save memory usage. While data fetching from database is natively managed by eloquent, Web API-based data fetching is not provided.

I was involved recently in a Hackathon, more specifically LaraHack. The theme was Community. Many took this as a theme to bring people together through a social media, or chat interface. I went through a different route, and found a use for a tool, that I'd never considered before.

As your applications scale, processing large amounts of database records with Laravel Eloquent can become increasingly difficult. Resulting in out of memory exceptions and overall slowing down your application. Why is that?

It’s pretty easy to create a simple form in Laravel. But it’s harder to make it dynamic – the most common case is parent-child elements, like creating invoice and adding items dynamically in the same form.

In our QuickAdminPanel, we generate the dropdowns with Select2 jQuery library, which gives search capabilities. But what if you have 1,000+ or more entries in that dropdown? It could potentially even crash your browser when loading.

If you need to add or remove parameter to some service method, it's usually a pain - you need to change the method signature, double-check its usage in other classes etc. I want to share a "pattern" will help you to avoid that pain.

Let's see how easy it is to move Laravel models from app/ into app/Models. PhpStorm will help a bit, but actually any IDE is ok.

Demo-project based on QuickAdminPanel - manage appointments for beauty salon, medical clinic or similar.

What's inside - CRUDs for Companies, Categories and Cities - Front-end with listings and search by category/city.

What's inside - Managing expenses/income and their categories - Monthly reports by profit and by categories - Multi-tenancy: users can register and see only their expenses - Users management for administrator

What's inside - CRUDs for Clients, Projects, Notes, Documents and Transactions - Simple Report for Income per Month - CRUDs for Settings - Currencies, Transaction Types, Client/Project Statuses

Free repo on Github. Generated with QuickAdminPanel generator and manually applied front-end theme.

Most of the time I use the library called Jwt Auth for authenticating in Laravel projects. The process is quite simple: send the login credentials to the API, it gives back a token which gets stored - most of the time in local storage -, then place that token into the header of each API call.

Actually in a recent project, I was facing a problem. It was not a problem, actually i wanted a better solution. I created a multiple middleware and wants to restricted for some users type. In blade template for that I have to write many code. I think that will be messy.

This article is part of a series where I document insights, changes and rethinking that I experienced while refactoring the codebase for Pulse — a painless and affordable site & server monitoring tool designed for developers.

Laravel Fireable is a package by Boris Lepikhin that provides “an elegant way to trigger Laravel events based on attributes changes.”

Mass-assignment is when you use an array to create/update eloquent models.

The laravel-make-scope package by Samson Endale adds a make:scope command to the Artisan console.

In Laravel 6.x the frontend scaffolding was moved to a separate Composer package that can be found here: laravel/ui. This will install the new laravel/ui package that we need to generate the authentication scaffolding. To do this we will run the new laravel/ui artisan command:

In my experience, learning to develop a package for Laravel can be quite challenging. In this series of posts I try to provide a comprehensive guide to develop a Laravel specific package from scratch. First of all, I want to thank Marcel Pociot.

In this article I’ll show you how to turn on the light in the dark side of your application: “background Jobs and scheduled Artisan commands execution”. Laravel provide a great architecture for queued Jobs and scheduled cron tasks. I myself use them a lot.

If you’re building an app with Laravel and Inertia, you don’t have access to Laravel’s helper methods because you’re writing views in JavaScript. This means you lose the ability to generate URLs on the fly with Laravel’s route and action helpers.

Recently I discovered that the default logout functionality in Laravel actually logs the user out from all their devices. This is because upon logout it cycles their remember token, invalidating other logged in sessions.

Reddit thread with dozens of answers.

Reddit thread with dozens of comments. What do you, as professional Laravel developers, use for user authentication on a first-party SPA?

In this series, we are exploring what are the best practices a web developer must take care of when creating or managing PHP code. The final test will happen in a few minutes and it will be the result of weeks of research, hard work and calculation.

In this example, i would like to show you how to create flash message notification in laravel 6. you can create laravel 6 flash message without composer package. i write step by step tutorial for laravel 6 flash message from controller.

In this series you will learn from start to finish what it takes to build a Chat/messaging system for your SWIFTUI app within a couple hours. This series is aimed towards beginners, but feel free to skip steps if you’re advanced!

I’ve been working on projects that use both Vue and Laravel for the last two to three years, and during the start of each’s development I have to ask myself “How am I going to pass my data from Laravel to Vue?”.

Just about a few minutes ago I had need to logout user from my Laravel + React app (it’s general) but with Axios.

Amila Laravel CMS Free, open source Simple Bootstrap Laravel CMS for any EXISTING Laravel 5.x or new Laravel 6 website. Only add a few database tables with prefix, not effect your existing database tables.

The default installation of Laravel is aimed at a typical web application, which is a great entry for most people. However, when building an API things need to be changed slightly. The directory structure for Laravel is pretty easy to understand, and is setup for you to get going pretty quickly.

Laravel Stats 2.0 was released recently with a bunch of changes and exciting features! If you’re not familiar, Laravel Stats is a rake-inspired package that gives you code statistics for your Laravel projects. One of the stats is the ratio between application code and test code. In 2.

I've been using Sequel Pro for a couple of years, but it crashes 15+ times per day and I am ready to move on and I am looking for recommendations. Also I saw this screen shot in the vapor docs: https://docs.vapor.build/1.0/resources/databases.html#using-databases anyone know what that is?

The great mathematician Carl Jacobi once said “Invert, always invert”. He advocated that, by analyzing a problem backward, one could uncover the best solution to it.

I had my fair share in designing and building large systems. I've taken part in rewriting Uber's distributed payment systems, designing and shipping Skype on Xbox One and open-sourcing RIBs, Uber's mobile architecture framework.

Received an email with question, and decided to answer with a public video where someone would maybe learn something too.

Video answering a question from another video comment - a lesson where you will learn some Eloquent, some Laravel 6 UI, some Seeding, some Select2 + jQuery.

Generated with QuickAdminPanel generator and manually applied front-end theme.

Demo-project based on QuickAdminPanel and TheEvent theme - manage event speakers, schedule and other details. Free with code available on Github.

Today we are very excited to announce a new global helper function that is available for all Laravel 6 installations, as well as for all applications that have Ignition 1.9+ installed. We all love to debug our code using dd - it's fast and easy.

Laravel Model States is a Spatie package by Brent Roose that adds advanced state support to Laravel models. According to the package readme, it combines the concepts from the state pattern and state machines—you should be familiar with these concepts before using this package.

The Laravel team announced the immediate availability of Laravel v6.1.0 with a new eager() method added to Lazy Collections along with the latest updates for Laravel 6.

With my meager one year of experience as a web developer with a focus on PHP and Laravel, all the systems that I contributed in did not need to decouple the layers of the system. The database and application layer of the systems I developed ran in a single server.

In this article, you'll learn how to build a travel reservation manager from scratch using Laravel. We'll walk through every step of building the application and then add authentication using Auth0. You can follow along with the finished project in this GitHub repository.

It's a free and open source platform to host by yourself. Shaarli allows you to save your web links (websites, youtube videos, ...), to share your stories and manage your web accounts.

Refactoring is the process of reorienting existing, working code. Author Martin Fowler defines the practice of refactoring as: Let’s take a look at what we mean by refactoring.

Today, most web projects are developed based on the client-server model. The web client (Web UI) will call the server through the Restful service. When we invoke the API from a browser, we will experience cross domain issues because browsers have security mechanisms.

Laravel makes TDD a lot more fun, it is such a joy to work with . The essence of the tests in this series is to ensure that your app model relationship is not missing a bolt. The code snippets will be available for easy reach at this Github project link.

MVC is a programming design pattern where the code that manages the Models is separated from the code that manages the Views and the code that manages the Control is separated from the Models and the Views. The models are the components that interact with the databases.

Every single codebase has its own technical debt, what defines technical debt, in simplicity, is how much the effort and time you would need to spend to fix legacy codes. We can’t escape from it but we sure can minimise its impact.

In a recent project, we had a requirement to send a welcome email after user registration. So I started exploring on the internet and I stumbled upon sendgrid mail client. Laravel provides a clean API over the popular SwiftMailer library with drivers for SMTP, PHP’s mail, send email and more.

The Laravel team announced the immediate availability of Laravel v6.0.4. This release includes scheduled task events, a new JSON assertion method, and all the latest changes. Next, two new events were added for scheduled tasks: ScheduledTaskStarting and ScheduledTaskFinished.

How a 30 lines piece of script can finally provide a good solution for a repository pattern in Laravel apps. The problem Laravel provides a beautiful way to query your database through Eloquent, an Object Relational Mapping. The moment your project becomes larger there starts to rise a problem.

So now everything is clear and we are ready to learn all the following concepts from A to I. In config/queue.php file, you can find the configuration for redis connection driver.

API Logger is a Laravel package by @aungwinthant that helps in debugging API logs. It can log the request method, URL, duration, request payload, models, and controller action. You can also implement a custom log driver by implementing an interface provided by this package.

Since already using docker compose, could just use docker-compose exec name bash to get into the container for artisan commands. The just dce site php artisan ... becomes a habit

Today we’ve upgraded two of our popular free demo-projects on Github that we had created back in 2017. The goal was to use existing popular roles-permissions packages (Laravel Permission and Bouncer) and put QuickAdminPanel logic on top of them for CRUDs.

Laravel has awesome set of artisan commands, probably the most often used are make:xxx – like make:model or make:migration etc. But do you know all 21 of them? And, moreover, do you know their parameters which may help to make the code even quicker?

Originally written in January 2017, article was updated in October 2019, with latest information about the packages and removing the ones that are no longer maintained.

Demo live-coding of /api/v1/register POST request where new user is registered via API and not from the web.

Presenting a demo-project with two-factor code sent via email. In this video, I will explain the logic of various parts in the code.

This is a detailed course covering how to build a RESTful API using Laravel. We use tools and utilities such as Codeception, Vagrant, Homestead, Postman, Php...

Laravel released v6.2 yesterday with a new password confirmation feature that enables you to require a logged-in user to re-enter their password before being allowed access to a route. This functionality works like the GitHub confirmation screen when you perform sensitive actions.

Today, I’m going to introduce ways to crawl a website with PHP. There are many ways to crawl a webpage, JSON, XML, and other data. We using PHP to do this. Web Scraping (also termed Screen Scraping, Web Data Extraction, Web Harvesting etc.

We use internally https://apidocjs.com/. It's ok, but I to write some extensions to get it to do what I wanted.

Recently we released a new small package called laravel-rate-limited-job-middleware. As the name implies, this package can be used to limit how many times a job may be executed in a given amount of time. In this short blog post, I'd like to introduce the package to you.

After following this guide, you’ll have a Laravel App running AdminLTE. Along with this, you will also have a vue-router implementation on sidebar with dynamic content section.

extend the functionality of classes which come with laravel by adding functions and classesMacros is a great concept introduced in laravel it is one of those things which makes us love laravel .

Open the newly created GoogleMapController.php file and edit it as the code below, I have used the validation you created and imported into the file.

My understanding is that there is a convention to use snake_case fields in the database, and Laravel defaults to that style when it makes assumptions about things like relationships, so I've been using snake case.

A web application is hosted on a server, as we all know. General public can access a web application through browser, mobile application and many other ways. So if anyone is hosting his application for public use then he pays for the server resources.

How to add watermark on images in Laravel and What’s the easy way to do? First of all, you should make sure to enable GD extension on your server.

In this article, we will discuss “how to use make auth in Laravel 6”. Officially Laravel 6 is available now, but some of the changes here, as expected. Because you are reading this article, So I assume you are still not familiar with the Laravel 6. Note that, It’s an LTS version of Laravel.

Recently I found an interesting package called Lighthouse PHP on the web. Lighthouse is a PHP package that allows you to serve a GraphQL endpoint from your Laravel application.

In this article, we will discuss “Laravel Observers”. Laravel provides us to implement the Observer pattern to fire some predefined events, which can be listened to hook into when various actions are performed on a model. No dought, it’s a great feature of the Laravel.

User authentication log for Laravel 5 and 6. This package allows you to log user's authentication and force its logout if necessary! To use this package the only allowed values of session.driver are file, database, redis (at the moment).

Have you ever wondered how to provide API validation errors and translations for different locales? This beginner post will show you how to get started with setting a locale in a stateless Laravel API and testing various locale validation messages.

Last year we wrote a blogpost about our setup we use for Oh Dear! with Gitlab, and how we use their pipelines for running our CI tests. Since then, we've moved back to Github since they introduced their free private repositories.

A collection of common algorithms implemented in PHP. The collection is based on "Cracking the Coding Interview" by Gayle Laakmann McDowell

Awesome video. Are my tutorials similar to this? Let me know then, will try to get better :)

Demo-project based on QuickAdminPanel and KnowledgeBase theme - manage articles, categories and FAQ questions. Code available on Github.

I want to show a new Laravel feature which allows you to ask for password additionally, on some more "sensitive" parts of your application, like managing users or financial data.

Live-coding demo of how to allow administrators to approve new users in Laravel. Core of the project is generated with our QuickAdminPanel, and in this video I'm explaining how it works under the hood, also coding email notifications for both administrator and registered user.

Demo of how to setup Backup package to perform *only* DB backup (and not files), also how to send notification to Slack on every successful or failed backup.

Laravel package development, especially locally, can be a difficult thing to break into from past experience.

Laravel Passport is an official Laravel package to implement API authentication in your Laravel apps. It provides a full OAuth2 server implementation for your Laravel applications. First, install and configure Passport as suggested in the docs.

4-hour video on YouTube.

Previously, we have tried how to create a route and process it inside the routes/web.php file. Now we will make a route, then handle it in a controller, as this is common way people do; the infamous MVC. Though we will not render a view but return JSON. This route will show one item from database.

Laravel Framework provides a robust mechanism to filter all HTTP requests using the Laravel Middleware classes, the most common example is auth middleware which checks if the current user is logged in or not.

Laravel 5.5 saw the introduction of a new valid return type for route actions: the Responsable interface. There's an excellent article here on Laravel News about how to use it.

Activate account after email verification:Many web applications require users to verify their email addresses before using the application. Rather than forcing you to re-implement this on each application, Laravel provides convenient methods for sending and verifying email verification requests.

CSRF, also known as XSRF, Sea Surf or Session Riding, is a common attack that tricks a web browser into executing an unwanted action in an application to which a user is logged in.

If you don’t know what CRUD is, read the intro to crud, otherwise skip to Chapter One. What is CRUD?

Save a lot of time in your workflow with this commandalias pa=’php artisan’alias pas=’php artisan serve’alias pam=’php artisan migrate’alias pamf=’php artisan migrate:fresh’alias pamm=’php artisan make:migration’alias model=’php artisan make:model’alias cntrl=’php artisan m

In this tutorial, i would like to show you how to setup task scheduling cron job in laravel 6 application.This Cron will call the Laravel command scheduler every minute. When the schedule:run command is executed, Laravel will evaluate your scheduled tasks.

Couple months ago I was trying to find a new solution for my project, and I had built a SPA dashboard with Vue (using this great framework, Laravel Lumen as API gateway, Laravel Passport as SSO server).

This tutorial is aimed at complete beginners, so, the API we’ll be building will be as barebones as possible. This tutorial assumes you’re already on the correct file path and you have composer installed on your machine.

The problem I had was simple. I wanted to create a summary API of one of my resources, and I wanted to do it the way that would be the best for the project and REST API principles. So I created a question on Stackoverflow and waited for the answers.

Other than that, I was struggling to find up-to-date Laravel Wiki projects a couple of months ago. I've previously found Opus by Ziishaned but don't like how it looks and feels. I also upgraded Opus to L5.8.

File handling is one of the standard routines in most web projects, but it’s not that easy to build from scratch: file extensions, uploads, thumbnails, protection, etc. So there are a few useful packages on top of the Laravel Filesystem to help you.

In this tutorial, we’ll explore the ways you can build — and test — a robust API using Laravel. We’ll be using Laravel 6, and all of the code is available for reference on GitHub. Now we are going to develop a ecommerce rest api where we have a product table and a review table.

Unobserve is a Laravel package by Stephen Lewis to mute and unmute observers at will.

While building ContestKit there was a feature I wanted to allow users to know if the emails that were sent to the winners were delivered successfully. Thankfully this feature is relatively easy to add because of Mailgun's amazing API. Let's create a new Laravel application and get started.

Have you ever been late on a project delivery? Yeah, I know that stress feeling. At QuickAdminPanel, we see our mission as helping developers to deliver projects quicker. There are many ways to save valuable hours, generating or reusing existing code instead of writing it from scratch.

New series! I will create a real demo-project to manage venues - it will be an Upwork-inspired project, mini-clone of hirespace.com, based on Bootstrap theme Homespace by Colorlib. So far, 5 videos published, will be 1 or 2 more.

Example how Model Binding may fail and you wouldn't even notice. Also, how to fix.

A few of QuickAdminPanel customers asked how to implement a situation when you need both one-to-many and many-to-many relationships to the same table. Like, for example, user belongs to many organizations but only one organization is founded by him.

A couple of days ago my colleague Brent published a blogpost on Domain Oriented Laravel. In short, he makes the case for organising your code around business concepts or features. That might sound very "heavy" or daunting, but it's acutally for easy to get started with.

A blog series for PHP developers working on larger-than-average Laravel projects.

I don’t know if I’m the only one in the world who thinks about throttling custom actions, not necessarily only logins. Laravel comes already with a ThrottlesLogins trait prepended to the default LoginController class, and does its work wonderfully.

In this article we are going to setup a kind of “typo checker” on PhpStorm to look for MySQL reserved words being used as column names in your Laravel migration files.

Laravel has soared in popularity in the last few years. The Laravel community even says that Laravel has made writing PHP enjoyable than a pain. Laravel 6 has some interesting new features. Getting a super scaleable working URL for your application take hours if not days.

In the last days, I came across an increasing amount of posts on different ways how you can structure your software projects. I'm part of the Laravel community, and the approach of these posts is mostly different from the default Laravel way.

I haven't tried it yet but I find the concept interesting. Any issues with performance? Storage? Costs? I’m getting ready to go live with it. I actually paid someone about $1000 to make sure the AWS was set up correctly. But my app is medical and requires some extra security steps.

We are going to create a service account that we will use in Gitlab to deploy to GAE. Go to IAM-Admin->service-account and create a service account. In the next panel, click create a key, choose JSON and click the create on the right panel. A file will automatically be downloaded.

With the release of Laravel 6, I made a change to Shift to default the configuration files to their latest version. Primarily this was done to improve the user experience. Previously users had to go download the latest versions of the config file and manually compare them to determine the changes.

Sometimes you want to develop beautiful notifications in HTML or markdown format. But how do you style them easily without having to send them every time you’ve changed something? Laravel offers an out of the box solution for this. In your web.

When creating Jobs, Listeners or Subscribers to push into the queue, you may start thinking that once dispatched you’re all on your own with what the Queue Worker decides to do with your logic.

I’ve put together a small list of tips that I’ve found useful while working with Laravel. You probably know about, and have used onDelete('cascade'); on foreign keys in Laravel migrations, but did you know about 'set null'? This allows you to preserve models when their related model is deleted.

Laravel is just a framework for PHP programming language. But for successful project delivery coding skills and technical knowledge is not enough. So-called “soft” skills are as vital as writing the code, so I decided to touch on that part as well.

Laravel IsAuth is a Laravel package by Emre Dipi that provides control to check if a user session is dead before submitting forms. If the session is dead, a modal will prompt the user to login.

A tech debt reading and resources list. It contains lots of ways to diagnose, prevent and control tech debt. This is a WIP! Please add any resources you find interesting by forking and creating a pull request.

Step-by-step video of a typical way we test and deploy Laravel projects. We use Laravel Forge and Envoyer for this, but you can set up your own other tools or do it manually, it's more about processes than tools.

Showcase of our QuickAdminPanel, with my thinking about DB structure and fields. From Eloquent models on paper, generated DB schema and adminpanel, just in 20 minutes, including stopping for commenting some things here and there.

Presenting to you our latest demo-project - Bootstrap theme transformed into Laravel Blade, with added adminpanel by QuickAdminPanel

By default, Laravel installation comes with .env.example file, which has default value APP_URL=http://localhost. I see many people forget to change it to real URL of your app, why is it important?

Awesome! I'm in the process of migrating my local dev environments from vagrant to Docker, and this helped me understand more about it! Oh wow, I've never seen this before! Definitely bookmarked.

Hi,I need to create several Forms with a lot field, but I like to keep my views clean and consistence, and also have some separation between code and HTML.

Laravel provides robust logging services that allow you to log messages to Slack to notify your entire team. Press the red button of Add to Slack.

Recap: In order to create and display the profile, we posted a form to the create route. Can we create an update form and post it to an update route? Yeah but …

Laravel Compass is a package by David H. Sianturi providing a REST client inside your Laravel project.

Imagine if you need to fetch specific data from website. Like contents, articles, items, prices, products, etc. But you don’t want to do it manually, then web scrapping is the solution. Web scraping, web harvesting, or web data extraction is data scraping used for extracting data from websites.

In this post, I will go to explain how to localize a Laravel application. The application will support English, Spanish and Galician languages. This is a real example to translate the https://wptranslator.jesusamieiro.com web app. You can find the source code on GitHub.

Hello everyone! My name is Stefan and I’ve been working with Laravel for quite a while now (probably for the last 6 or so years). For the better part of the past year I’ve also been spending my free time on side project, with the goal to improve the life of Laravel developers.

In this exercise, we’re going to build a simple Laravel project using tymon/jwt-auth for authentication. The /products endpoint is a protected route that fetch the list of products for Authenticated users.

Hi All, this is Adi with another Laravel tutorial. This time, I wanted to cover my basic solution to a problem we might all have when building web apps using only blade templates. Let’s take this example scenario and explore possible solutions.

We know that we can calculate distance between users using Google Maps, even better, it can show you exact directions between point A and B.

Route Usage for Laravel is a package by Julien Bourdeau that logs route usage for your Laravel apps. Logging routes with this package is an excellent way of figuring out which routes are not in use: After a few years, any projects have dead code and unused endpoints.

Automated testing is an integral part of software development as it becomes extremely important when your application grows making sure your current and future updates are not breaking anything. First of all, we’ll need to install X-debug, you can do by clicking on this link ( https://xdebug.

First, a security fix related to password resets was contributed. The fix throttles users to only creating one password reset record every 60 seconds. This prevents attackers from submitting many password requests that will flood users’ email. You can see the commits in 23041e9 and a934160.

You are probably already using Laravel when you read this, that means you are already using Packagist too, but might not be aware of it. In this guide you will learn how to deploy your own Laravel packages to Packagist.

Demo of two packages which may help to generate forms faster. But are they worth it? My opinion in this video.

Two new demo-projects in one! We've created a repository with seeds for world countries and US states/cities, and also created a demo-project how to apply those as dropdowns inside of Laravel registration form.

Another Laravel demo + Github repository! This time we took small job from Upwork and implemented it with help of our QuickAdminPanel and front-end theme called ETrain from Colorlib.

We're using two bug tracking software for Laravel, and here I will show how they work, from installation process. Which one do you prefer?

I see a trend that some clients move from remote to in-house developers. I give you two reasons why working with remote freelancers may be unsuccessful (and how to fix it).

JWT authentication provides a secure way to transmit data between the client and server using Laravel APIs. In this post, we will look at how we can create a JWT authentication for a Laravel based API. API’s provide a fluent interface to communicate with the different type of services.

If you follow Marcel Pociot on Twitter, he’s been sharing his progress on a Mac application called Tinkerwell. We’re excited to share that Tinkerwell has launched and is available for purchase for USD 14.99: Tinkerwell is php artisan tinker on steroids.

Short summary about how to use Google Calendar API to CRUD Events in Google Calendar Impersonating as other users. An Meeting Room booking app running internally in all of our offices. Employees and Clients Schedules meetings choosing Office, room and date time.

If you’re here, you probably already have Laravel installed on your machine (and you run macOS). If you don’t have Laravel set up properly and you use a different operating system, I’ve written a guide to help you setup Laravel.

We already know how Laravel API resources work. One resource or resource collection is bind to a single model (resource class and model class have same name). Resource class identifies the model class by their name.

The Laravel team released v6.5 this week with a new remember function added to the LazyCollection. Also, this release includes a few new string helpers, custom unless blade conditions, and a few new query builder methods.

We built an application years back and originally set the timezone in app.php to America/Toronto. I realize this is not sensible and it causes some interesting issues on daylight savings changes. We are exploring changing the application timezone to GMT. There are obviously a lot of considerations.

In your app, users might have different roles such as Admin, Author, publisher, etc.

Here are some goods news: Implementing an ACL (access control list) in your Laravel application is actually a snap. Let me share a simple solution which basically consists in writing a middleware only to match the URL of the incoming request against the permissions stored into the database.

For a couple of projects I needed to read and write a couple of very large Excel and CSV files. I didn't find a good package that does this so I decided to create one myself. Under the hood it uses generators, so memory usage will remain low, even when working with large files.

There are many ways to display list of text to make it easier to understand. Graphic, table, chart, word cloud, etc. Word cloud is one of the best choice to display list of counted words data. Word cloud is a method to display text data visually.

At the time of the writing of this post, Github Actions is out of beta and will be available to everyone in November 13. It is a great option which can automate a lot of things. One of these things is to run your CI/CD pipeline (aka PHPUnit tests).

Almost live-coding video where I show you how to make a validator for array imported from CSV. I hope you would learn a few Laravel validation tricks from here.

Live-coding video with real mini-project at the end. How to add "Events" and "Meetings" (two different Laravel models) onto one calendar (powered by FullCalendar.io)

While working on calendar applications, and using our System Calendar module, we got a few questions from our customers, how to deal with events that occur regularly – every day, week or month. There are a few ways to approach this, and this article will show one of them.

Video version of the same article above.

Laravel is coveted as the most popular PHP web framework in the world right now, and for good reason. It's got a lot going for it with it's vast ecosystem of Laravel Packages, great communities, and exemplary documentation - what isn't there to love?

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The Laravel release process has changed since Laravel 5’s release cycle. We get a fair amount of questions, comedic comments, and confusion about Laravel’s new release process announced at Laracon US 2019.

When scaling web applications horizontally, the first difficulties you’ll typically face are dealing with file storage and data persistence.

NOTE: If you already understand laravel queues, and you’re not interested in stories, go straight to the second heading.

In this article, we will discuss the “Laravel Authorization with Gates”. As you know, Laravel provided an Authentication solution that is Out of the box. Laravel provides two simple way to manage the authentications such as Gates and Policies.

This one's gonna cause some arguing. I need to add additional fields to my User model, should I: Add a JSON field to the User model called "->profile" and add them to that?

With every line of code we add to our projects, we increase their complexity and the possibility of introducing bugs that can pop up at inopportune times. Perhaps a few minutes before a client’s meeting or during a weekend when we are at the cinema, away from our keyboard.

At my first internship, I was really clueless about what I was doing.  I was only a year into college, and interns often don’t know much, but my lack of knowledge took the cake.

Our new demo-project which is more serious - you can actually use it as a helpdesk system for your project, with some tweaking if you wish. In this video I show how the system works, and three random things from the codebase - Eloquent Scopes, Observers and Conditional Queries.

Quick video explaining our demo-project, where users can have their own subdomains like [my-company].[maindomain].com. Github repo included.

Starting a series "Dear Client..." where I will try to answer typical questions from our own clients, so both future clients and fellow developers would learn something. In this video, I share how we deal with hosting and servers, and how clients should approach this topic.

Taylor Otwell released a new feature for the Laravel Installer v2.3.0 which includes the auth scaffolding using the new --auth flag.

New project (with discussion on Reddit)

I have a csv file with 1.5mil rows and I want to insert it into the database. But the transaction must go through laravel, and follow the 128MB memory limit.

I needed an instagram feed in one of my projects, and i found out there was no good package to do work with. Based on the vinkla/instagram I created this package which uses caching and creates a InstagramPost object to work with. Feel free to use it, and feedback is welcome!

Recently I came across what I thought would be a pretty common problem. In a Laravel project where users can upload files of any size, the files needed to be encrypted at rest for security purposes. Laravel provides Encryption facilities, but they are designed mostly for encrypting values.

Laravel and Bootstrap are fantastic! Nevertheless, forms management remains a tedious aspect when building applications. Model binding, automatic error handling are supported, as well as most of Bootstrap forms features.

You already know that OAuth 2.0 protocol is used for authentication and authorization. Laravel has Passport, which is a full Oauth 2.0 server implementation, used for authentication over API. By default, Laravel Passport has 4 types of Grants.

Nexmo Voice Channel is a package that adds a notification channel to Laravel using Nexmo’s voice API.

If you are working on a finance website, then you certainly need a PDF to be generated, to create an invoice, an estimation or a report for example.

Laravel Notify is a package that lets you add custom notifications to your project. A diverse range of notification designs are available, and many are coming soon.

In this small blog post, I'd like to give you a couple of tips to make your Artisan commands better. You probably know that you can schedule artisan commands in the console kernel like this.

To onboard new users created by other users, I've created a package called laravel-welcome-notification which can send a welcome notification to new users that allows them to set an initial password.

Presenting to you our totally new package. While working with invoices on client projects, we didn't find a convenient way to generate PDFs flexibly, so here we go - created it for ourselves, but hopefully will be useful to you, too.

It’s that time of year again. Where you can save huge amounts of money on everything from training courses, to full applications. This year we’ve compiled a list of all the hot sales and listed them all below. If you’ve been thinking about buying any of these now is the time.

Why are some programming languages so popular while others are seldom used for project development and sometimes even fall into oblivion? There are plenty of reasons for that.

I was thinking about something like this just last night. The solution I had in my head wasn't as elegant as this, however. Nice job, I'll definitely be making use of it!

Trix is an open-source WYSIWYG editor from the creators of Basecamp and it’s designed to be a different editor. Here is how they describe it:

In this FullStackRadio episode, Adam talks to Evan You about all of the changes and improvements coming to Vue.js 3.0.

Three mini-articles in one: MySQL Indexing, Refactoring Business Logic into Actions , and State Pattern in Laravel

In this article, we will discuss “Brief Understanding Laravel Scopes”. I will try to explain to you, How can you use this in your Laravel application. As we know, Laravel provides lots of rich features to make development easy and simple. You can check the official documentation here.

Laravel provides a great layer for working with local and cloud filesystems. If you work with files using the public disk and Laravel Storage facade, you will be struggling with customizing your URLs. First create a new Laravel project or use the existing one.

Laravel form requests are one of the most underrated features, maybe even a bit "hidden" inside the Laravel framework. Let me show you what form requests can do for you - and how you can make use of them to write beautiful, expressive APIs.

This will validate that data in the request object and passes an array of rules which will validate both due_date and template exist and are set in the request object.

So I built a small CRUD application with Laravel and Vue.js. I wanted to learn AWS, so I've started out with elastic beanstalk. I've had nothing but problems. I want everyone to correct me where I'm wrong here.

Hello and welcome to this PHP/Laravel tutorial series, my name is Henry Mbugua and I will be taking you through the various aspects and new answers of how to build an automated workflow of sending emails in Laravel 6.5.

In the previous article we learned about the performance improvements that Vue 3 will bring. We already know that apps written in the new major version of Vue will perform very well but performance isn’t the most important part.

As a laravel developer, by large data I mean collection of 1000 or more rows from a single data model that is, a database table; specifically on a MySQL / MariaDB server.

In this tutorial, we will assume that you already have an active Laravel installation. We well use always last version of Laravel, in current date, the last version is 6, but, this tutorial work in previous Laravel versions. We will reference parameters in our model table, fillable.

When it comes to speeding up your application, caching can be the best thing to achieve. Laravel comes up with cache drivers pre-installed so you can enjoy the experience out-of-the-box. Redis, Memcached or just using local files, Laravel comes packed with this.

In this article, we will discuss “Laravel Authorization Policies”. As I already, Describe the Laravel Gates in my previous article. You have to take a look at Laravel Authorization with Gates article for better understanding. Basically, Laravel Policies are the best way to protect Model actions.

Have you ever found yourself writing multiple manual steps to set up a Laravel application in a new environment? Laravel Initializer is a convenient way to automate installing and updating a Laravel application:

In this tutorial i am going to create Laravel and Vue js crud tutorial with pagination. We will create a Single Page Application(SPA) using the Laravel and Vue.js with image upload. This tutorial you will learn how to use vue router and v-form package to create laravel vue js crud.

Laravel’s .env has an APP_ENV variable that determine the environment of the application. The possible values for that variable are: local, testing and production. The file is used in the three environments.

This is a super simple implementation right now, but I whipped it up this evening to hopefully simplify the integration of JWT functionality. Functions the same as the other Laravel guards and is intended to work seamlessly.

I don't know why, but I wanted to try this new idea I've heard about creating two separate apps, client-side and server-side. It sounded like a well organized idea to me at first.

Here’s the thing.  After getting over some of the personal gibes (smug optimism?  literally no one has ever accused me of being an optimist, kind sir), you may be expecting me to issue a vigorous rebuttal.  But I shan’t.  Because we are actually in violent agreement, almost entirely.

Collaboration with a large team is challenging, and even more so if it’s on a single codebase, like the Shopify monolith. Shopify changes 40 times a day. We follow a trunk-based development workflow and merge around 400 commits to master daily.

Quick review of this package that allows you to define hasMany() with unlimited level of nested models.

Among the few features that got added to the latest released version of PHP 7, the arrow function feature seems to be amazing to me since it has been in JS ES6. So I decided to talk about it using some common Higher Order Functions we already know — array_map() and array_filter.

PHP 7.4 has just been released! This latest version adds several new features to the language such as arrow functions for shorter one-liner functions, typed properties in classes, covariant & contravariant type handling, Preloading for better performance, and much more!

Its no longer news that PHP 7.4 is now available with lots of exciting new features. Yeah, and everyone wants to get a test of it :) PHP 7.

In PHP 7.4, two new features were introduced that I'd like to use in my packages and projects: short closures and typed properties. Even though an IDE can help with converting to the new syntax, I'd don't want to manually hunt down all the places where the new syntax can be used.

PHP 7.4.0 GA stable release is out now. Centmin Mod 123.09beta01 LEMP stack has been updated to support PHP 7.4. I posted some comparison benchmark for REMI Yum vs Centmin Mod built PHP binaries for PHP 7.4 vs 7.3 vs 7.2 vs 7.1 vs 7.

With the release of PHP 7.4 (today), the language has some great updates that can improve development. These changes include: You may want to get it running on your local docker before deploying to production. This tutorial will be updated on how to get PHP 7.4 running on docker.

A code generation tool for Laravel developers. Open-source tool for rapidly generating multiple Laravel components from a single, human readable definition.

So this is my first foray in to TDD (Test Driven Development) at work. The way I was going about it was just running the tests for the specific feature I was building, mostly because I wanted to rerun the tests quickly to keep the momentum going.

The vemcogroup/laravel-translation package by Henrik B Hansen scans your applications for translations and creates your translation JSON files. The app also has a configuration property for a poeditor API key and project ID, which allows you to upload/download poeditor features.

Let’s add authentication & authorization to our (very) simple Chat app. Note: Please refer to the previous article for most of our application setup.

Good Reddit discussion.
I'm a relative laravel noob, coming from a very broad-based generalist background (backend/frontend/mobile/devops/realtime 3D/ AR+VR). I have a couple of projects coming up that will likely be long-term - growing from just me, to me & contractors, to a small team of dedicated devs.

In the next major release of Laravel coming in February 2020, you can customize implicit route model bindings directly in the route definition: Route::get('/posts/{post:slug}', function (Post $post) { // ...

A while ago, I created an easy to use framework agnostic PHP package to read and write CSV and Excel files called spatie/simple-excel. Behind the scenes, generators are used to ensure low memory usage, even when working with large files.

When someone mentions SMS services, people tend to imagine a system of quick-messages transmission for communication between people. But in the modern world, SMS services provide high functionality useful for various tasks. Let’s have a look at some basic examples of their use:

Listening for Model Events in Laravel can sometimes be a tedious task. It usually becomes quite unmanageable to maintain when a client or application requires additional features.

Last week I wrote an article called How to encrypt large files in Laravel, explaining how to encrypt large files on the local filesystem. Today I want to show you how to upload and encrypt large files to Amazon S3, using Laravel and the FileVault package.

In many cases it is useful to create a validation so that the texts sent by a request have a certain format, this task is extremely simple in Laravel, even if there is no type of validation like this in the validation rules in the framework.

Websockets are cool. They are really helpful if you want to show real-time activities from your users (or perhaps some queue jobs). Now, if you are afraid of the word “Websockets”, don’t be.

In PHP 7.x, now we have phthread extension available to create a new thread and divide your long task in multi thread to complete it faster. But what if you don’t have phthread extension on your server?

Laravel is around since 2011 and it had seen a lot of change since then. It is among the top PHP Framework out there in 2019-20. It has around 56.4k stars of GitHub till now which in itself shows how popular it is among the developer community.

When PortfolioEditor is seen in the browser, we need the updateItemModal set to FALSE. When the edit button is clicked, we need the updateItemModal set to TRUE.

Exchange rates API is a free service for current and historical foreign exchange rates published by the European Central Bank. Get the latest foreign exchange rates.

I've written about using the prepareForValidation method in Form Request classes before. We can use it here to manipulate the request parameters on the request before performing validation.

PhpStorm 2019.3 is now available! This major release is focused on performance and quality, expect a more stable and faster IDE. It also brings full support for PHP 7.4, PSR-12 code style, WSL for remote interpreters, MongoDB support, HTTP Client updates, and many usability improvements!