One FREE video from my 4-hour course "Eloquent: Expert Level".

Laravel has built-in easy-to-use pagination of database results out of the box.

This guide assumes prior experience with Vagrant and Laravel Homestead. Laravel Homestead is an easy-to-use Vagrant box for local Laravel development, but getting SSL to work on a Windows host can be tricky if you've never done it before.

Macros provide a way to add functionality to the classes in which you don’t have that function. It helps you to create a small reusable component that will be possible to use it anywhere in your application. In this article, I will try to describe how to use Form macros in laravel.

When it comes to user-provided data, always take an approach of "guilty until proven innocent." With that in mind, we'll add two layers of validation: client-side and server-side. This will give us maximum assurance that we're receiving the correctly formatted input.

"Hmmm, I need some basic authorization, like admin role for admin panel and maybe some editor/moderator role... Let's google it. Wow! Laravel already has packages for that! zizaco/entrust, spatie/laravel-permission and others! Let's choose one!" That's how it usually happens.

Hello!I use Vue single file components along with Laravel blades. I asked myself: "How can I pass some endpoint URLs for AJAX requests from Laravel to Vue".Now I'm passing them in this way://inside .

Sales & MarketingAutomate your inquiries with follow-ups. Create, edit and schedule follow-up to meet your business goals. SMS & Email AlertsSend SMS alerts for membership renewals, payment reminders, wish birthday’s and promotions on one click.

Browsers don't yet understand PATCH and DELETE request types for your forms. To get around this limitation, we'll use a bit of trickery to instruct Laravel which HTTP verb to assume.

I work mostly with Laravel for backend and Vue for frontend. One day I was working on an Oauth integration and it needed an api key. Sure, I could hard code that, or setup a config.

Thanks to Carbon maintainer @kylekatarnls you will be able to use Carbon 1.0 or Carbon 2.0 staring in Laravel 5.8. The update includes the ability to use Carbon immutable and even make your application use CarbonImmutable as the default.

Managing users and mailing lists are not a that painful nowadays. Since we have excellent services that can cover all the needs we have, we don’t need to worry about it too much. But still, let’s take a look at how can we handle user subscriptions when Laravel fires different events.

Earlier this month the Vue devtools version 5.0 beta was released, bringing amazing new features to the already debugging powerful tool. Some of the new features include performance profiling, route tracking, live editing the Vuex store, and a new settings panel.

I think most of us that have worked with Laravel for a while are very familiar with the package installation process: add the package via composer, register the service provider, publish the config file, update the environment file, hopefully you remember to update .env.

Laravel Proximage is a handy package by Ilya Sakovich for proxying images through images.weserve.nl. The package provides you convenience methods for generating URLs with a fluent API for image transformations. The images.weserv.

Laravel Console Task is a package by Nuno Maduro that allows you to perform tasks and to output the results to the console.

Create simple products, and complex ones using variation system by attaching the product to a specific type. Generate , Validate , and purchase them while checkout easily.

This is my package for adding a blog (with admin backend panel) to your Laravel app. A lot of websites that use Laravel often have a blog on the same site, so the site staff can post updates. This package has everything you need to get your own blog up and running on Laravel.

Laravel framework comes with built-in Auth system, which is pretty good. But it doesn't cover all the cases, and the most common one is administrator approval of every new registered user. In this article, I will show you how to do it in fresh Laravel 5.7 project.

Big 4000-words article, almost e-book. Hiring a remote developer is usually a pain in the neck. Even if you find the right candidate, the road there is pretty tricky.

Still actively editing this post; better pictures coming soon. Laravel Telescope is a new application debugging assistant from Laravel, written by Mohamed Said and Taylor Otwell. It's open source, free on GitHub, and will be released likely next week.

The first beta release of Laravel Telescope is now out and available for everyone. If you are not familiar with Telescope here is the quick overview: Laravel Telescope is an elegant debug assistant for the Laravel framework.

So I need to store some application settings that can be modified by the admin users. Settings such as IP whitelisting, a company logo, select options for various dropdowns (some of which affect business logic).

There’s an important gotcha to remember when working with Eloquent and default database values. If you create a new model instance, without overriding the default database value, the status attribute will be null.

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Besides enjoying some greenfield work, we often have to work on legacy projects at Spatie too. Sometimes those projects don't run on the latest PHP version. I this blogpost I'd like to show you a way to switch PHP version easily when using Laravel Valet.

Lighthouse is a PHP package that allows you to serve a GraphQL endpoint from your Laravel application. It greatly reduces the boilerplate required to create a schema, it integrates well with any Laravel project, and it's highly customizable giving you full control over your data.

This package makes using the Google Translate API in your laravel app a breeze with minimum to no configuration, clean syntax and a consistent package API. The package will automatically register itself.

Laravel Form Builder is a package by Kristijan Husak that incorporates an API similar to Symfony’s form builder for Laravel 5 applications. Form builder for Laravel 5 inspired by Symfony’s form builder.

Larastan is a static analysis command-line tool by Nuno Maduro built on top of PHPStan and focuses on finding errors in your Laravel code before running it. If you’ve ever used PhpStorm, you’ve probably experienced static analysis of your PHP code both in realtime and within code inspections.

Forms are an every day task for many developers. Also it’s one of the most boring ones in my opinion. Recently I decided to make a rather complicated form in a Laravel project I ran with a lot of Vue.js magic.

Since there aren’t a complete guide for integration Laravel 5.7 with jwt-auth so I decided to create one. In your app/Exceptions/Handler.php catch errors in ‘render’ function.

In this part we will add Core UI Bootstrap Admin Template to custom the UI and UX of project. Part 1. AuthenticationPart 2. Add Core UI TemplatePart 3. Profile → Comming soonPart 4. Users → Comming soonPart 5. Roles → Comming soon

Working with API’s is a common task we all face and one tool that makes this is easier is the Insomnia REST client created by Gregory Schier. It’s cross-platform compatible and works on Mac, Windows, and Linux.

Whoops error pages are awesome, though sometimes you may need to analyze stack trace in PhpStorm! Tools -> Analyze Stack Trace - Can also be handy if you got a stack trace from a remote server log.

Here's the code you could use in your controller to encrypt an uploaded file. It's also possible to attach a file as a stream to a controller response (allows users to download the decrypted file).

I’m a developer, not a designer. But my customers expect the web applications, online platforms, websites and administrative panels I build for them to look at least ‘fine’.

A small project I've created for my course "Eloquent: Expert Level".

A common problem while working in a team is some custom variables needed, when only one person on the team knows that they are needed, and then other people have errors because they don’t have that variable. Like API Tokens for 3rd party apps, default values for some function – basically, anything that should be in .env file. So here’s an instruction for you, how to put new environment variables correctly, without screwing up teammates work.

Quick tip if you want to run some migration BEFORE another migration, and re-arrange the order.

It’s been almost a year since I decided to start building a self-hosted Laravel package dedicated to monitoring and notifying you of errors and changes in your application.

Symfony is a PHP framework for web applications and a set of reusable PHP components. Symfony is used by thousands of web applications (including BlaBlaCar.com and Spotify.com) and most of the popular PHP projects (including Drupal and Magento).

Laravel’s first employee, Mohamed Said, joined the team over two years ago. Last month we added our second employee: Dries Vints. Dries has been a part of the Laravel community for a very long time — as long as I can remember.

In this tutorial we will develop a full API authentication system which can be used by any application which is able to perform requests (React, Vue or Angular for instance). Let’s start!

Laravel Tag Helper is a package by Marcel Pociot for adding powerful HTML tag helpers to your Laravel application. As a quick example of what this package can do, it ships with a few helpers out of the box. The package works by registering tag helpers in a service provider’s boot() method.

Interesting discussion on Reddit with real-life experience from real users of Nova.

Testing a Laravel application has a low barrier to entry compared to other PHP frameworks. I did come across a small problem while testing an application’s api and thought I’d share a solution here.

Mercurius is a real-time messenger system developed with Laravel and Vue.js. It features a complete application, and you can easily install with any Laravel project. Check here to try a demo, and use the following credentials to authenticate.

Laravel Telescope is a new debug assistant for the Laravel framework, created by the same people who created Laravel. It was first announced at Laracon AU, and its beta was released shortly after. It’s free and open source, licensed under the MIT license.

Often we need to handle subdomains with our Laravel application. Let’s take a look, how can we treat the routes dynamically and set up the subdomain with Valet and Forge. According to the documentation, we can easily set up subdomains in our route files.

Why write code like this public function edit($articleId) { $article = Article::findOrFail($articleId); return view('articles.edit', compact('article')); } When you can simply do public function edit(Article $article) { return view('articles.

Laravel offers a convenient way to create asynchronous background tasks using its queues. We utilize those heavily at Oh Dear! for all our monitoring jobs and in this post we'll share some of our lessons learned and what we consider to be best practices.

Is it by freelancing or getting a salaried job (maybe as a full-stack engineer)? I've had a little bit of coding experience doing front-end and mobile work but none doing back-end or database stuff. I want to be able to create my own Indie Hacker-style software solution one day.

Announced at Laracon AU 2018, and released shortly therafter, Laravel Telescope is an elegant debugging assistant for the Laravel Framework, improving upon functionality available in Laravel Debugbar.

Chat bot’s popularity has been growing these past years because of it’s great functionality and reliability to handle some cases in business. And also, Bot has been supported by lots of instant messaging service provider such as Telegram, Line, Facebook, etc.

For a project I'm working on I needed to build a lightweight, pragmatic search. In this blogpost I'd like to go over my solution. Imagine you need to provide a search for users. Using Eloquent you can perform a search like this:

In Part 1, we introduced that this series would cover the process of building and maintaining an open-source package for Laravel. Check it out for an overview of what we’ll create in this series. Next, we are going to get to work on scaffolding a new Laravel package.

Test your knowledge about Eloquent. If you find questions difficult, maybe it's time to purchase my course on Eloquent? :)

Is it indeed slow? or just biased benchmarking? Here's a post from Taylor Otwell a while back explaining his thought process around bench marking.

I am always excited when a new Laravel ecosystem product comes out. I am not a fanboy, I have always been skeptic and critic about some parts of the framework when I don’t like them, but there is something (among many others) I love about Laravel: its pragmatism.

Out of the box, Laravel provides a simple, tried and tested password reset method and some view templates to get you going. All you have to do is add styles.

While many developers are flocking to IDEs and other hybrids like Visual Studio Code, I’ve found myself trying to create a minimalist Sublime Text 3 setup. I am a minimalist at heart, and I like both my physical environment and virtual environment to be as minimal and tidy as possible.

Laravel comes with a lot out the box, however, you'll often add third-party packages to add extra functionality to your projects the following are packages I use on most Laravel projects.

In this post series we will see how to build a Laravel Restful application. In addition we will see the basic functionalities of Eloquent ORM, Tinker db queries and some relationships between Models. We will split this tutorial in three steps. Let’s see the first step right now:

We are partnering with a client to build a SaaS product that we are really excited about (and hope to announce more details on soon). It is a multi-tenant application where each new tenant gets their own subdomain. It is critical that authenticated users can only see data from their own instance.

Greetings once again humans, I’ve been doing so much api building during the past months, but for some crazy reason, those api’s are not making me money yet ??Anyways in the process of building my api’s there is a need to secure your api and limit user interactions, but the easiest way t

For a Laravel 5.7 side project I needed to show some information about local weather. I created this post just to share my experience playing with Laravel and weather APIs. HERE Developer (https://developer.here.com) is a magic place where to find a bunch of APIs related to geolocation.

The withCount() method also allows you to get multiple values at once by passing in an array instead of a string. Taking things up a notch, we are also able to load counts on related models when we are eager loading them.

Adding a custom/helper/user-defined class or helpers class in Laravel project is very easy. We will use Facades to access our custom class’ members statically. The documentation states about the Facades as:

The Laravel Database Hashing package is a Laravel +5.5 package by Jack Noordhuis for automatically hashing database attributes. When enabled it automatically hashes data stored in model attributes. I noticed that this package wasn’t ready for Laravel 5.

In CSV file you can store data in comma-separated string format. Sometimes require to import existing CSV file data to MySQL database.

I recently had to endure the process of writing an SQL query that relied on the a specific SQL subquery.

If you want to build the next Slack competitor, or more humbly broadcast events to multiple users, and possibly to another application like a React Native app, you may need to consider using Pusher.

New Laravel-based publishing platform by Mohamed Said. There are lots of options out there; WordPress, Ghost, Medium, and dozens of other platforms. Each has areas where it shines, and also each has its dark side.

In most Laravel examples around the web related to sending notifications, I see them sent directly from controller actions. While it's perfectly fine for a simple project, it may become harder to maintain in bigger projects, with a lot of notifications and channels.

One of the amazing features of Laravel is its Routing. Before using Laravel framework I have used Codeigniter framework where all routing can be done by controller, however in Laravel you can see a overall view of your application by looking at the Routing file.

The latest first-party offering from the creators of Laravel is finally here. Laravel Nova is a gorgeous backend tool for configuring and administering your various database tables. In this series, Marcel Pociot will demonstrate how to get up and running with Nova as quickly as possible.

This article is aimed at junior developers, but may interest anyone as a bank of useful tips on how to grow some good habits.

Is it by freelancing or getting a salaried job (maybe as a full-stack engineer)? I've had a little bit of coding experience doing front-end and mobile work but none doing back-end or database stuff. I want to be able to create my own Indie Hacker-style software solution one day.

Since its emergence in 2011, Laravel has become a very popular option for developing business-focused applications including information management systems (popularly known as business information management systems) and ecommerce platforms.

Laravel ships with a great starting directory structure, one which may support your entire project, depending on the size. If, however, you notice it’s getting harder and harder to find code that you want to work on, you may want to step back and rethink your app’s architecture.

Let's take a look at how you can define routes to controllers in Laravel. By default you can do it like this: This will look for the MyController class in the App\Http\Controllers namespace. This default namespace is set up in Laravel's RouteServiceProvider.

One of the most important parts of building an API, or any codebase for that matter, is making sure it is well-documented.

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I recommend to read the full discussion with comments.

You may want to log API request & response for various reasons. The API end-points require a constant monitoring of performance & be able to check for valid requests & response received and sent by your client & server respectively.

Instead fo having to inject the class on my controller, and call the method. I feel like using static methods is "cleaner", since I don't need an instance of the Service class. But I have been reading everywhere that you should avoid using static methods. Breathe.

I recently converted the navigation of my Laravel Spark based app, MemberScore, to use Tailwind CSS. Spark uses Bootstrap out of the box, which I wanted to move away from for two reasons: I find it a bit clunky and restricting, personally I’d built a sales site for MemberScore (at memberscore.

Setting up PHPCS on Laravel. When we start the project, we always say “we will use proper coding standard and let’s do the code review”. Every time, when someone makes…

Web applications need to perform computationally-expensive, time-consuming tasks like sending emails, processing uploaded files, or calling APIs. Performing these tasks during a user’s web request can make your web application feel slow and clunky, which is frustrating for users.

In this article I would like to share you how to build simple REST api in laravel 5. Here i will share with you create basic and simple resource api route with json response. you can simply use with your project, So we need to make basic setup for our application.

In this post we will see how to use the Eloquent ORM relationships between Models and how to use Tinker to query some data from database. This post is the second part from: Part I.

Using a JS Class & Mixin we can setup any Vue Component to deal with our data in a highly integrated manner. To demonstrate this, we’ll build a data table from scratch that interfaces with a paginated Laravel model collection.

Laravel Kustomer allows you to easily implement a Customer Feedback component on your website. It is build with VueJS but can be implemented in any kind of Laravel Project. You just need to drop a few lines in your layout.

Article for entrepreneurs, but maybe you as developers will see something useful in how employers think and how to get hired.

One FREE lesson from my online-course "Eloquent: Expert Level".

Example how to change simple Bootstrap CRUD into AdminLTE theme.

Quick tip for those who want to list some events, grouping them by some date value – by day, month, year etc. Let’s take a look at example – we have this database structure of appointments.

Probably one of the most common operation on every website is to assign “active” CSS class to the menu item which is currently opened. There are quite a few ways to detect that status, let’s review them. Now, the part that we’re interested in is class=”active”.

FullCalendar is probably the most popular jQuery-based calendar solution, but it doesn’t have event editing function. Let’s build that with Laravel and use Bootstrap modal to edit events without refreshing the page. Let’s begin.

From time to time we are asked to integrate a real-time chat application or real-time notifications in our system. While this can be painful there is no actual need to be afraid of the time consumption.

For those of you who want to switch from being a developer in a full-time job, to create your own product and to earn "passive income". How hard can it be, right?

You can find quick tech answers on Laracasts, but for major decisions you need more serious help.

If you think it's quality of your code, think a little deeper.

Do you feel that 24 hours in a day is not enough for you? You're not alone. But here are my thoughts with reasons why that limited time is actually a good thing.

Let’s get started. Next, we need to prepare the database. Let’s create a database called laravel-vue-table and make changes on the .env files accordingly.

Hey everyone! Does anyone know of any good CMS or blog packages that plug into Laravel or use the standard Laravel base as its core?

I personally love Traits, exporting functions/logic that can be used by multiple classes is so awesome and clean. You get more standardized and readable code by using Traits. In this tutorial i’ll explain how to make an easy make:trait command so you can easily whip up traits.

In a simple application that requires sending only a few emails, there would be no problem creating Mail class for each of the emails. But in a large app or one that requires sending multiple emails, it becomes tedious creating Mail class and probably Job class too for each of the emails.

ProcessMaker BPM is a fully functional Open Source BPM Suite installed on-premise and in the cloud for businesses small and enterprise. However, the technical debt accumulated made it harder and harder to adjust to growing customer demands. In this case study, learn how we are migrating our product

Details below! ?? Test-Driven Laravel is a comprehensive course on building professional, maintainable Laravel applications with TDD.

Vue Laravel CRUD Example Tutorial From Scratch is today’s leading topic. Laravel is the PHP’s fastest growing Framework with scalability and flexibility. VueJS is the fastest growing Front end Library in the Javascript community. Laravel is providing VueJS support out of the box.

When it comes to blocking bots to your website posting malicious content, ReCaptcha from Google is an awesome solution. In this tutorial i’ll cover how to easily integrate Google ReCaptcha validation in your Laravel Application.

This year Laracon AU was held for the very first time. According to what I read on Twitter Michael Dyrynda did an awesome job organising it. The organisation was so kind to record all talks. They are now available on YouTube. You'll find all talks in this playlist.

At Spatie we have a tv screen against the wall that displays a dashboard. This dashboard displays the tasks our team should be working on, important events in the near future, which tasks each of our team members should be working on, what music they are listening to, and so on.

Here we go! Your Laravel application is now in production. You are online, ready to start making a lot of mecha-gazillion dollars. Roses are red, violets are blue, tests are green and you feel so cool.

First – register email account for test email sending (we going to use Gmail). Go to gmail, click on account icon (right up) then press Google account.

This is a remastered version of my previous tutorials How To Build An Efficient and SEO Friendly Multilingual Architecture For Your Laravel Application and Laravel 5 And His F*cking non-persistent App SetLocale.

At Reason Digital, we have a team of extremely talented developers who are happy to share their expertise and tips with those who are being challenged or are simply keen to learn. That is why we’re sharing the insights and ideas from our development team.

Learn How make Laravel application with feature like live mysql data searching, table column sorting in ascending or descending order and make pagination link using Ajax. Live data search functionality with data sort and pagination in Laravel using Ajax.For source code - https://www.webslesson.info/

Written by Gregg Pollack and Adam Jahr. Evan You previewed Vue 3 this morning during his keynote talk at Vue Toronto. By taking advantage of new abilities enabled by modern browsers, Vue 3 will be an improved evolution of the Vue.js we already know and love.

It’s that time of the year again, and over the next few days, there will be some awesome deals in all sorts of areas — retail and tech especially. As a Laravel developer, there’s a lot of goodies to get your hands on for some insanely discounted prices!

We are thrilled to announce that October CMS was voted the Best Flat File CMS in the recent CMS Critic Award contest. This was a challenging and exciting experience with voting lasting over a month.

I receive a lot of questions about working with Excel in Laravel, so decided to prepare a video course, discussing all the cases like formatting, working with big files, formulas, encoding etc. Shooting videos is in progress, full course will be available in mid-December 2018. Meanwhile, you can purchase it for early-bird price, 66% off.

File uploads are one of the essential things in web apps these days. But secure download of these files is sometimes even more important. So how to store files securely so people wouldn’t have access to them or guess their URLs or IDs of their records? Here’s a small demo tutorial.

Laravel doesn’t have color picker field as a default option, but we can build one easily, please follow this tutorial. We will generate our form with QuickAdminPanel, but it’s not necessary – it’s a simple CRUD.

This article is a simple example of belongsToMany() relationships in Laravel, with managing the data in CRUD form and table, using Bootstrap framework and Select2 library. Here’s what we’re building – a list of articles with their tags.

Mini-package review of orangehill/iseed

A simple CRUD. Video was created for my online-course which was never released and cancelled, so I decided to put it up as a separate video.

A short demo. Video was created for my online-course which was never released and cancelled, so I decided to put it up as a separate video.

So proud that our QuickAdminPanel made no.1 on the list!

Really really good list, feels similar to my e-book full of short Laravel tips. Here are some features from Laravel that you may not be aware of. They're not exactly anything advanced or hidden, but I don't really notice that these functions get used or referenced very often. (Maybe they are though, and I've just not noticed it.)

Last month at the Laravel PHP Paris meetup, Nuno Maduro introduced his newest package called Scout Extended.

This guide will make you install Xdebug on your Mac without the performance downsides, but still being able to use all the Xdebug goodnesses. Most Xdebug setups only allow you to use it through a web browser plugin. This is not helpful when you’re following a TDD approach.

In this tutorial, we will build a to-do app with Vue.js and Laravel using Pusher to add the realtime functionality. Vue.js is such a great JS framework as it speeds up frontend development and helps achieve more with less code.

In the previous tutorial, we worked on creating an iCal feed using Laravel Lumen. An iCal feed allows users to export a calendar event and view it on an external calendar. In this tutorial, we will take an extra step. Using the Twilio API, we will send SMS reminders to users who subscribed to an event.

Laravel includes ‘Scheduling’ to handle cron jobs. You can easily schedule them from inside Laravel using an expressive and easy to use syntax. The “App\Console\Kernel” class handles all the scheduling in Laravel.

In this episode, we talk to Phil Zaen­gle from Zaen­gle Corp about lever­ag­ing the PHP frame­work Lar­avel to build tru­ly cus­tom web appli­ca­tions. We dis­cuss when a CMS like Craft makes sense, and when it makes sense to uti­lize Lar­avel in addi­tion to or instead of a CMS.

In applications it is often useful to have a way to store some global settings. These settings are not related to a specific model, such as a user, but to the system as a whole.

In this tutorial, I will guide you step by step on How to Deploy Laravel to Digital Ocean so that you can push your local laravel project to the cloud. We will be using Digital Ocean as our clound hosting provider.

If you’re a web developer, chances are you’ve heard about Laravel. I for one use it a lot. Laravel is an open source, model-view-controller framework for PHP — what’s not to like?

You may have noticed the recent fuss about the compromission of event-stream, a popular NPM package. Let's see how many dependencies are in Laravel and Symfony.

When building web apps that interact with a database, I always have two goals in mind: Keep database queries to a minimum. Keep memory usage to a minimum. These goals can have a drastic impact on the performance of your app. Developers are typically pretty good at the first goal.

Built on Laravel.

Before we begin, let’s first talk about Open Graph protocol. The Open Graph protocol enables any web page to become a rich object in a social graph. For instance, this is used on Facebook to allow any web page to have the same functionality as any other object on Facebook.

Hello, I have a few models that have an is_main property - this is a simple boolean. At the moment I have a toggleMain() method which responds from a route /contact/1/toggleMain. This works, however it feels a little amaturish.

Did you know that you can define a $dispatchesEvents property on your Eloquent model and map native Eloquent events to your own event classes? Check this out.

In the previous post, our Laravel 5.7 application connected to Cloud SQL. In this post, we are going to upload an image to Google Cloud Storage from Laravel 5.7 application.

One of Doctrine ORM's key features is the ability to write database queries in DQL, which is a query language for your object model. It means that in your queries, you’ll be using PHP classes’ and fields’ names to fetch or update data. PhpStorm comes with full advanced DQL support.

One free video from my course "Eloquent: Expert Level".

I’m a big fan of writing module-based software, but I’m not so fond of relying on third-party packages for trivial things as they could always prevent you from upgrading. For the two years I have been writing module-based software with Laravel and I’m very happy with the result.

We have just finished our transition from a websocket server based on laravel-echo-server to one that is fully driven by PHP: laravel-websockets. In this post, we'll highlight why and how we made that move.

This talk was given by Shawn McCool, Co-creator of Laravel Certification at LaravelLive India 2018 which we held on 19th March 2018 in New Delhi.

I'm currently working on a project and as part of it I'm building in unit/feature tests for the functionality of all the code. I'm fairly new to Laravel but I'm struggling finding the best way to test my code which makes use of third-party APIs.

laravel-websockets is a Laravel package that can handle the server side of WebSockets entirely. It completely replaces the need for a service like Pusher or a JavaScript-based laravel-echo-server. It has extensive documentation and a demo application you can play with.

Adds the @readable_int directive to Laravel's Blade templating system. This way you can shorten numbers into strings like 123K+. Please see CHANGELOG for more information what has changed recently.

I've been using PhpStorm for quite some time now, but never took the effort to fix a few minor annoyances I had with it. Sure, you can manually remove that block (this is what I have been doing too), but even better is to configure PhpStorm so that block won't get generated at all.

Laravel Passport adds the capabilities as an OAuth2 server to your Laravel application, which manages how third party accessing to your application data. There are four things you need to know before you getting started with Laravel Passport.

The biggest list of laravel video tutorials from youtube in one place. They even have our QuickAdminPanel as a section/tag.

Gamifying your application is the process of adding game elements, such as user points and user achievements, inside your application. This will encourage your users to contribute and interact more in order to earn points and badges.

If you use Google, Facebook or another OAuth provider, you might have a difficult time setting up your local environment. That’s because they have some very strict rules about the Authorized Redirect URIs you can register with them. Google, for example, says:

Lots of hype has been for Google Firebase. PHP however, don’t have much support on the Google Firebase platform. Today, I will be sharing with you how easy it can be building a CRUD app using PHP and Firebase.

Recently I built a custom ecommerce SaaS platform for B2B-specific niche. The app was built using Laravel framework and allows users to create their own shows under the app subdomain (so-called multi-tenancy app).

Laravel is a free, open source PHP web application framework. It is built on top of several Symfony components, and provides a development framework that makes common tasks such as authentication, routing, sessions and caching much easier to implement.

Do you go full SPA or multi-page? If going multi-page how to you prefer to set it up? E: For SEO and a couple other reasons I've actually decided to go with jQuery. I will use Vue for certain isolated components that require better state management.

Localization in Laravel in it’s simplest term means changing the application’s default language to the language preferred by the user. In this article, we’ll walk through the process of implementing Localization in a very simple way.

The most visual and interactive way to learn Git on the web; you'll be challenged with exciting levels, given step-by-step demonstrations of powerful features, and maybe even have a bit of fun along the way.

Free video from my course "Excel Export/Import in Laravel".

Let's take a break from PHP, and switch over to our recommended front-end workflow within a Laravel app. We'll do a crash-course on webpack, Laravel Mix, compiling CSS, and debugging your Vue components.

Because the web is stateless, we can use sessions as a mechanism for recording important user information from page to page. In this lesson, we'll review the basic sessions API and flash messaging. Finally, for extra credit, we'll review how to make Composer autoload a helpers.

Another new tool from Marcel Pociot, the man is on fire! Laravel Dusk Dashboard is a Laravel package that gives you a beautiful Dashboard for your Dusk test suites. It completely visualizes the individual steps that are involved when your Dusk tests are running, as well as DOM snapshots for each individual step.

I want to implement UUID on my Laravel 5.7 project. By default Laravel has provided great features in it, we can have authentication by just running simple command php artisan make:auth, then Laravel will provide these all for us.

This is an excerpt of the upcoming ebook Laravel Testing 101.

What is Wink? Wink is a free, open-source publishing platform built to run on any new or existing Laravel project. It comes with a clean and efficient admin panel and a familiar feeling WYSIWYG editor for creating content, but then how that content is displayed is entirely up to you.

Yesterday the PHP team released PHP 7.3.0 for general availability (GA) and marked the third feature update to PHP 7. You can download the latest version from the official PHP downloads page. You can also get all the nitty-gritty details about PHP 7.

PHP 7.2 added a warning when counting uncountable objects. The is_countable function can help prevent this warning. These two functions basically do what the name says.

A lot of small tips from Reddit users.

In this article, we will deploy a Laravel web application on Amazon Web Services and we will scale it across several instances. These instances will share a single MySQL database that will be deployed on the Amazon Relational Database Service(RDS).

Firebase is a Backend-as-a-Service — BaaS — that started as a YC11 startup and grew up into a next-generation app-development platform on Google Cloud Platform.

Full length multi-part video courses on a topic that matters.

In this tutorial we’re going to expand the API we built in the previous tutorial to include authentication. By default Laravel includes authentication for session based authentication. Check it out by looking at the Laravel docs on authentication:

The lack of modification of mapping for existing fields is one of the drawbacks of the ElasticSearch. Once the mapping is created for a field, it is not possible to change it unless it has been reindexed.

I just finished the Laravel From Scratch series, and I'm curious about a few things they didn't cover.

Twilio Sync is a powerful API which allows us at Momentum, an online travel agency, to keep our dashboards up to date with its WebSockets entities. Pairing it with Laravel’s Broadcasting feature, however, gave us the ability to efficiently dispatch, queue, serialize and log our Twilio Sync calls from Laravel. In this post, I will walk you through how you can extend Laravel’s framework to make use of Twilio Sync natively.

Have you ever heard youself saying something like this in one of your projects? I know that it happened to me a lot of times! When I was given a task at my job, I would usually go and search for an available open-source package on packagist.

We will use the Cashier package to integrate Stripe Payment Gateway in Laravel. The demand for Saas based platform is increasing day by day and nowadays building a subscription-based system is universal.

Congratulations! You’ve finally written so many lines of code that you can afford a beach house. You hire Peter Keating, an architect world-famous for his skyscrapers, who assures you that he has brilliant plans for your beachfront property. Months later, you arrive at the grand unveiling.

Demo live-coding project using Laravel Excel package.

One free lesson from course "Excel Export/Import in Laravel".

Did you know there are similar rules to "required"? In this short video, I will show you the difference and where you can apply "present" and "filled" rules.

Imagine you have a form where dropdowns depend on each other. Common example is a city select, where you need to choose a country first, and then cities list is refreshed. How to do it in Laravel?

It's time to take the techniques we learned in Laravel From Scratch, and put them to good use building your first real-world application. Together, we'll leverage TDD to create Birdboard: a minimal Basecamp-like project management app.

In this tutorial, we will automatically forward SMS sent to a Twilio number to a slack channel using a webhook implemented in Laravel.

Laravel “chunk” method is widely used to split large query into smaller chunks when processing large database. But there is a trick if the attribute used in query would be changed in call back function. It is easy to be ignored and thus often be misused.

The newly released Laravel version 5.7 adds a new capability to verify user’s emails. If you’re ever ran php artisan make:auth within a Laravel app you’ll know the feeling of pleasure and excitement…

In this post, we will create a image gallery. As we know, image gallery is one of the major elements in web development for most of the projects. Off course, they should be dynamic which we are going to build. We will be using Laravel framework. We will start from fresh laravel installation.

Cryptocurrency has been and is still one of the biggest trends this year. With currencies like Bitcoin reaching record highs and new companies creating tokens and offerings, it’s showing just how much potential cryptocurrencies have.

In this series, we will show you how to set up a search for your Laravel install using Laravel Scout, Algolia, and Algolia Vue Javascript Library. The series is marked Advanced as you will need to have some working knowledge of Laravel and Vue.js.

Last week Jeffery Way shipped Laravel Mix v4, the next major version of the Laravel Mix. Mix 4 uses Webpack 4 and comes with other nice improvements. Here’s the high-level list of new features in Mix 4 from Release v4.0.0: Under the hood, Mix changes from node-sass to dart-sass.

Laravel Core Adventures is a free video series that teaches you how Laravel is working under the hood. Sign up to receive info about new videos. Laravel Core Adventures is a video series which explains how Laravel works under the hood.

If you’re new to Laravel or to frameworks in general then you might be slightly overwhelmed the first time you run laravel new new-project in your development environment and see the file and folder structure it has created.

As I am learning more and more about TDD development. I am getting fascinated with this approach of development and the enormous benefits that it brings for the application development. So I decided to write a tutorial on how to approach TDD with a very simple CRUD application in Laravel.

The goal of this series is to get you, the junior/mid/senior developer, into the swing of using APIs and to understand how OAuth2.0 and JWT works in the best way possible — by doing it yourself. We are going to use the Laravel framework, version 5.7 and the official OAuth2.

Love using Laravel Telescope to debug your application, but frustrated that you can’t use it to debug your tests? The main problem has to do with running migrations using Laravel’s RefreshDatabase trait.

Want to learn how to create a Laravel application that is ready to scale? In this tutorial we’ll explore how to create your Laravel application, hook it up to a Manifold project, and finally learn how to use Memcache to speed it up.

When building web applications, it is almost impossible to avoid encountering bugs. This could range from a typo to a forgotten semicolon or an undefined function. But most importantly, you want to have an idea of everything going on in your application, how and when they happen.

About Git. I have production and development branches. When the work is done, I do rebase and that's all. So I have two same branches before "releasing". I thought about grouping all the dev commits in one production commit. Is it worth it?

I’d love advice or recommendations / standards for how to organize code in Laravel. How do you decide which functions go in helper files or controllers and how do you decide the scope of a controllers ability?

Typical Eloquent one-to-many relationship is defined with belongsTo() and hasMany() methods in the model. But did you know you can chain more methods to filter specific records for that relationship? Let me show you what I mean.

This is a new YouTube series where I am going to build an app for Restaurant using Laravel and Vue.js.

In this tutorial, we will learn how to use Laravel Subquery in real life example. Imagine that, you have two tables, users and posts where users table hasMany() relationship with posts table. Now, we would love to show all users paginate by 10 and show their last post time.

Laravel is one of the best choices for PHP developer since it gives so much flexibility to the developer. However, the form validation is one of the crucial parts for web-based application and API. Laravel makes Validating the request is so simple.

In laravel 5.7 all logfiles are generated in app/storage/logs. By default log is generated on daily basis. So to keep track of any issues it can help. But sometimes database query logs is needed when it’s difficult to find out the bug in database level.

This was initially written on wogan.blog, but after two rebrands and the whole Gutenberg fiasco the post completely broke, so I’m dusting it off and re-doing it here. Laravel 5.6 suggests a simple structure for creating API-driven applications.

Hello there, today we are going to deploy Laravel web app to Heroku. If you want to get started with Laravel you can find our post about doing so here. What exactly is Heroku? Heroku is a cloud platform as a service(PaaS) supporting several programming languages.

Laravel Telescope is an exquisite troubleshoot collaborator for the Laravel structure.

In this article, we will discuss “Laravel Socialite LinkedIn Login”. We already discuss the Laravel Socialite in our previous post, where we describe the Twitter login process. So in this post, we will not be discussing the common process.

Even if you're not on Upwork or not interested in jobs, it's worth looking at these questions/answers.

The Laravel team released Laravel Cashier v9.0 this week requiring an upgrade of PHP and upping the minimum Laravel version to Laravel v5.7.

Spatie team is still on fire with new packages. This week they released another one called Laravel Searchable, created mainly by AlexVanderbist. I’ve tried it myself and can show you a demo, along with my opinion.

Laravel has a great Auth system out-of-the-box, with just a few commands you can have Login/Register functions ready. But let’s dive a little deeper and see what we can easily customize.

Laravel Validation mechanism has a lot of various rules. Let’s pick the ones that can be applied to graphical files.

New video on our YouTube channel, this time we’re talking about required rule when applied to more than one field, if they are related to each other.

In our QuickAdminPanel generator, we don’t have specific “phone” field type, but you can put phone number validation easily to any “text” field type, this tutorial will show you how.

Sometimes you need to create a controller which doesn’t cover all seven resourceful methods, like index(), create(), store() etc. You just need controller which does one thing and you’re struggling how to name that method. No more struggle, there’s __invoke() method.

This is Laravel and Vuejs tutorial series, in this tutorials you will learn how to work with Laravel 5.7 and Vuejs 2.x. Laravel is a PHP based web development framework for software artisans, It's very simple and easy to use for design applications.

We take a look at using GraphQL with Laravel and Vue.js. In this first part, we take a look at the GitHub API to see some of the problems that GraphQL solves over a traditional REST API. We then take a look at the Lighthouse PHP package to work with GraphQL within Laravel. We take a look at the tuto

New video series on YouTube.

Now that we have a better idea about the functionalities we should be testing in our Laravel application, let’s start with testing what a guest can do, since it is less complicated than what a logged in user can do.

If you use the MySQL command line tool, but also like things like auto-completion and syntax highlighting, you should check out mycli. The source code of MyCLI is Python, and you can check it out on GitHub at dbcli/mycli.

Laravel is already known by many PHP developers for writing clean, working and debugg-able code. It also has support for many many features, that sometimes aren’t listed in the docs, or they were, but they were removed for various reasons.

Laravel is a most popular PHP framework which is free and opensource. In a short time span Laravel has got a lot of popularity because of that today Laravel has become the most popular PHP framework. Laravel is basically used for web app development based on MVC architecture.

I'm combining 20 years of programming with my recent "clean code" tweets to create a short book field guide of simple practices to help you write code that truly lasts. Sign up to receive sample passages as well as exclusive early access.

In this article, we will discuss “Laravel Socialite GitHub Login”. In this Laravel Socialite series, we already discussed Twitter and LinkedIn social login in our previous articles. You need to read out our previous posts on Laravel Socialite series.

Laravel provides a lot of global helper functions which are also used by the framework itself. These helpers functions can be used by us to make our work convenient. Laravel helper function also helps us to maintain code reusability by storing the most repetitive task on single global function.

After a couple of days and late nights/early mornings testing, tweaking and optimizing Docker and Homestead (Hyper-V and Vagrant/Virtualbox; 5.2 and 6.0) to serve as my local development environment on Windows, I have decided to install Linux on a USB stick and do all my coding from there.

This is simple laravel tutorial that help to send email using laravel 5.7.We will use blade template to create view for email content. We will create feedback form that have user inputs, The feedback content will send to the target email ids using mail class. You can send email into laravel 5.

Since Facades make use of __callStatic, are they still working in Laravel with PHP 7.3? I'm not sure how of you aware that there's a major bug (at least for me) in 7.3 which doesn't pass the parameters to the magic method.

Since 5.6, Laravel has shipped with functionality to sign URLs. These URLs append a "signature" to the query string, so that Laravel can verify that the link has not been tampered with since it was created.

Laravel Helper is a simple PHP global functions that you can use to save your time in writing some repetitive codes. Laravel provides more than hundred helper functions to speed up the development process. Helper function can be called from anywhere inside an application.

Now my migrations show "Table already exists", and exit the execution. How do I auto-skip the migrations that already have a table?

A Comment system is a primary requirement for blog website or any tutorial website. in this post i want to share with you how to create comments system in laravel 5.7 app.

lionix/seo-manager package will provide you an interface from where you can manage all your pages metadata separately and get dynamically changing content. Let's see how.

Laravel is an excellent framework for developing PHP applications. Whether you need to prototype a new idea, develop a Minimum Viable Product, or release a full-fledged enterprise system, Laravel facilitates all of the development tasks and workflows.

This is the story of how we built the laravel eloquent approval package. Let me give a little bit of background to the story and explain how built this laravel package. I work as a Laravel/PHP developer at Traknpay.

This is the most often question I see. Basic Laravel is an MVC framework, it’s clear what should be in Model, View and Controller. But what if you have custom logic for processing data before passing it to the view? Where should it be?

One FREE lesson from my course "How to Structure Laravel Project".

To demonstrate how Laravel works with timezones, we’ve created a small demo-project. User registration is expanded with Timezone field, and then every user sees the data in their own timezone. The subject is really simple – event management system with one field: events.

In modern multi-tenancy systems, it’s pretty popular to give a specific sub-domain for every user or company, like laraveldaily.slack.com. How to handle these subdomains in Laravel routes?

New video on our YouTube channel – mini-review of a package called Laravel Widgets. It’s pretty simple on the surface, but has a few great features to make it really useful.

Another package review on our YouTube channel, this time it’s Laravel Vouchers by Beyondcode. Probably the most simple way to add discount codes to your Laravel app. For more package reviews, please subscribe to the YouTube channel!

When working on a project, there comes a time when you need to automate certain tasks. In such cases, it is better to use a CLI tool which can be run from the command prompt because using a web APIs for certain tasks is cumbersome.

Hello dev’s, welcome to therichpost.com. In this post, I will tell you, How to implement Fullcalendar in Vue Laravel with dynamic Events? If you are new in Laravel Vue then you can check my previous post for basic information related to Vue Laravel.

Laracon Online 2019 is coming to a couch near you on March 6th, 2019! Back and better than ever in this 2019 edition, you will hear from the likes of Laravel creator Taylor Otwell, Tighten Partner and Laracon US speaker Matt Stauffer, Refactoring UI tag-team Adam Wathan and Steve Schoger, Laracon US

Laracon Online 2018 was held last year in February. It featured cool talks by Chris Fidao, Wes Bos and of course Laravel creator Taylor Otwell. In tandem with the start of the ticketsales of the 2019 edition, the videos of the 2018 edition have been released.

This package makes it easy to add early access mode to your existing application. This is useful for when you want to launch a product and need to gather the email addresses of people who want early access to the application. Take a look at contributing.md to see a to do list.

I’ve been using Laravel as backend to many recents projects and have liked it a lot — it’s been like coming back stable and safe home after trying multiple not so mature NodeJS frameworks.

Having a fast test suite can be just as important as having a fast application. As a developer, getting feedback quickly about the state of your code allows for a much quicker development turnaround. Here we are going to run through some tips you can implement today to make your tests run faster.

Have you ever executed 2 or 3 artisan commands over, and over, and over in your Laravel projects? Me too! That's what prompted this package. With it, you can define "shortcuts" to bundle up those commonly used commands into short, memorable names (or long, convoluted ones, that's up to you!).

As you probably know, you can call a seeder from within a migration using the Laravel framework. Here’s an example of how you would do that: Whenever your application is migrated and the above migration is run, the SampleDataSeeder will also run.

So we will create a Laravel Zero application and integrate /laravel-console-dusk, a custom version of Laravel Dusk for Laravel Zero, to easily track the evolution of twitter accounts.

Filtering your Models in Laravel is a common question, and often comes with a lot of “enthusiasm” from each side. All have their valid reasons to be used. However my method is a little “different” let’s say.

Laravel offers a nice feature, that locks out the users that attempted to login too much. It’s a nice way to prevent brute force logins. But how can we notify the user, when the lockout happens? Maybe it wasn’t the user who attempted to log in.

This article is a small tutorial on how to start broadcasting Laravel notifications with Pusher and receiving them in React. I had some trouble finding all the necessary documentation when I was starting with broadcasting myself.

After researching for a while in the VueJs docs and the web, I’ve created a list of best practices and style guides for a more correct or commonly accepted way of using VueJs. The points below are…

Learn how to use JSON Web Token (JWT) to secure your Web and/or Mobile Application! JSON Web Tokens (JWTs) make it easy to send read-only signed "claims" between services (both internal and external to your app/site).

Recently, while working on a project, I came across a situation where I have to work on multiple databases. As I was working on a hotel API, they gave me a static database file containing general information about hotels.

Hi, coders after a long I’m writing again on Vue and Laravel. Basically, in my journey on Laravel, I have faced this thing. How to pass data from Laravel blade template to Vue component. You will find a bunch of resources on the internet. Every solution comes with a memory and processing cost.

Today we’re announcing two major updates to make GitHub more accessible to developers: unlimited free private repositories, and a simpler, unified Enterprise offering. We’re excited about these updates to our Free and Enterprise offerings:

Quite often we need to save addresses in the database, and we want them to be accurate. Probably, the best way to ensure it is to provide customers with input field where they choose the address from auto-completed values as they type.

Laravel comes with great Auth out-of-the-box. But some projects don’t allow public registration, they send invitation links instead. This article will show you how to implement it.

In Blade language there’s a simple @include() command, where you just pass the view path as a parameter. But what if you’re not 100% sure if that view exists? Or what if you want to make it a dynamic variable? Let’s explore the possibilities.

One of the less-known Laravel features is Login throttling. By default, if user tries to log in via default Laravel login form more than 5 times per minute, they will get different error message. Yes, the error isn’t just “wrong password”. It’s “Too many login attempts.

Laravel has a great feature of binding models by id field. So you can specify edit(User $user) and system would know to find the user from ID in the URL. But what if you want to bind by some other field? Example from the beginning. Let’s say you have this URL: https://yourdomain.com/users/1

Laravel queues are powerfull and often adds quite a lot of flexibility to the system. While this is great – it can be very tricky to manage their priorities and ensure that they only run in specific order or if it’s really important – you run it as a priority over everything else.

Great question by Marcel Pociot with a bunch of answers, read all of them.

RESTful API development using Laravel is quite easy. Laravel provides built-in support for API development using Laravel Passport and a rich ecosystem with tons of packages makes development a breeze. Here we are going to use JWT for API authentication. JWT stands for JSON Web Tokens.

Seeking an opinion as to how most devs here mentally organize their apps from the routes/web file. Edit: Thanks the responses guys. Learning quite a lot about how other devs think about app architecture. Very diverse and helpful.

I have an established Laravel site, and we are thinking about adding an (admin only) form to the back end with a bunch of customer information.

Not all of us have the luxury of having an Ops team or the skill-set of a DevOp. If you don't already know, Laravel has a generally more strict set of server requirements than your typical PHP frameworks and projects. This isn't a bad thing.

There aren’t many useful guides out there that provide a simple, straight-forward answer how to use Laravel queues to send e-mails in batches. And if you’re in the same boat, here’s the lowdown.

In my project I am already utilizing Vuetify and VeeValidate so I will craft my solution around that. The concepts discussed here can be used with other packages, but might take some tinkering. I will be using my demo project from a series I am making about multi-tenant web applications.

I have to teach someone about database and how the tables can relate to each other, but using just code seems very daunting. Does anybody knows a good program to create Database schemas, so a principiant can give it a go?

Writing API with Laravel considering easy, however writing delightful API with Laravel is not that easy. To write a delighted API, you need to have a proper plan for your API. I am planning to share my personal opinion on how to write an incremental API with Laravel.

Over the years I've read a lot of interesting posts about speeding up Phpunit. The last one being a pretty good summary by Laravel News, Tips to Speed up Your PHPUnit Tests. Remarkably, there's one trick that wasn't mentioned in any of these articles.

Below you find a set of charts demonstrating the paths that you can take and the technologies that you would want to adopt in order to become a frontend, backend or a devops.

While preparing content for my upcoming PHP Package Development video course I discovered that over the last couple of years I spend more and more time polishing my code before shipping it. And I believe that this is something that is just as important as the actual coding itself.

Start of the Official Laravel Podcast by Taylor Otwell himself.

File upload is one of the most popular features in modern web. And we have quite a few libraries that can help us to build upload form. Let’s take two of my favorites – Dropzone on the front-end, and Spatie MediaLibrary on the back-end, and build a great uploading experience, in this tutorial.

If you work with project or blog where records require so-called slug (posts, pages etc.), it’s convenient to generate slug immediately after title has been typed in. This article will show you how to do it in Laravel, with AJAX and with a help of one Laravel package.

Database seeding is a convenient function, but it is designed to run once, in the beginning of the project. What if later you want to add some new seeder and unable to run db:seed or migrate:fresh cause current data is already important? There’s a cure.

Sometimes, especially in bigger projects, we run into issue of writing a create migration for the same table, or even column that already exist. Luckily, Laravel has a quick way of checking it. And if flights table already exists (for whatever reason), you would get an error.

My guest post on Laravel News. Laravel Excel package recently celebrated a new milestone of version 3, with new features that help ease advanced use-cases, and is simple to use. Let’s explore some of these hidden features you might not know about, that make Laravel Excel a go-to package for working with Excel.

2 minute short video, and pretty random question, almost like a trivia/pubquiz thing. Let’s say I’m doing insert SQL query, and if it fails – for example, some foreign or unique key is violated. What would be the ID of the next successful inserted record? Will it increase?

First and foremost, Laravel provides the most value when you write things the way Laravel intended you to write. If there's a documented way to achieve something, follow it. Whenever you do something differently, make sure you have a justification for why you didn't follow the defaults.

I just finished a PHP and AJAX tutorial so I wanted to Practice. Since Laravel is my preferred web development framework I decided to make a google search on working with Laravel and AJAX. All the examples from my search made AJAX calls to Laravel using Jquery.

This article is dedicated to a simple, yet powerful solution for the integrated development environment for those who prefer docker to virtual machines. Firstly, you need to install docker on your machine as well as a docker-compose package.

Laravel being the youngest of all PHP frameworks has quickly made its way as the best choice of PHP frameworks. It's the simplicity, clarity and flexibility of the framework that has also paved the way for many true Laravel eCommerce packages.

Here’s a cool video by Caleb Porzio where he demonstrates his proof of concept port of Phoenix LiveView in Laravel.

Laravel Eloquent polymorphic relations are similar to standard relationships, except that the model on one side of the relationship is defined by a column in the database table.

Tagging is an important part of grouping information on the web. On Medium you tag your posts with categories. On Facebook you tag your photos. In Gmail you can tag your messages with labels. On…

In case you have followed me for quite a while, i have published this specific article: Setup MongoDB for Laravel on ploi.io. In case you need to deploy your application to production without “hassle”, ploi.io might seem a great choice. This time, i’ll introduce you to MongoDB on Laravel.

There are many use cases where it makes sense to lock registration for your web app to only certain domains, for example an internal tool for users of your company. This will create a new custom validation rule that you can use anywhere you use request validation.

Laravel is a feature-rich framework. However, you cannot find all the available features in the official documentation. Here are some features that you may not know. You can also check if a particular attribute is changed.

Currencies are just like timezones, in that they are very annoying to support.

It wasn’t until I wrote my first browser test (using Laravel Dusk), that I started to understand what the different types of tests mentioned in the Laravel documentation were.

JSON fields are gaining more popularity since they became officially supported in MySQL 5.7.8. Even the popular Spatie Laravel Medialibrary package use them, so why shouldn’t we? This tutorial will show you an example. Let’s say we have an e-shop project and want to store products.

Quite often we need to list the table of data not just entry by entry, but grouped by date. Sports games by date, registered users by date etc. Let’s see how to do it quickly in Laravel. As you can see, it’s a list of users grouped by their register date (or, to be precise, users.

Another quick package video review – this time we’re having Laravel Breadcrumbs, which helps to show the path with links to the record you’re currently showing. If you want to see more reviews like this one, subscribe to our YouTube channel!

I’ve recently found a simple package that helps to transform any URL into embeddable HTML, the best examples are Youtube and Vimeo videos. Let’s imagine you have a video input text field (not uploadable video but URL), which you than need to transform into HTML code, depending on the platform.

Short video with an example, how findOrFail() and similar methods may lead to unexpected result for the end user. If you want to see more video tips like this, subscribe to our YouTube channel!

In this article, we're going to explore one of the most confusing aspects of multi-tenancy in laravel applications; communicating with multiple databases. The majority of applications just communicate with a single database.

There are some situations when we would like to manipulate data before sending it to validator. Let’s look at an example. Great. We have got a checkbox. Now send it to the controller.

In the article, we will discuss “Debugging with Laravel Telescope”. Laravel provides a wonderful debugging assistance Laravel Telescope. As you know, when we developing an application then it is impossible to avoid bugs. Laravel Telescope empower us to manage to debug an application.

Today we’ll be going on a Laravel journey driven by tests. We’ll create a Laravel REST API complete with authentication and CRUD functionality without opening Postman or a browser. ?

You probably haven’t noticed yet, but the Laravel News website just got a fresh coat of paint. We just launched a full one-to-one CSS refactor using Tailwind CSS under the hood! The goal of the project was to make it easier to implement design changes and add new content to the site.

The most struggle i had with for a long long time was setting up CI/CD properly for Laravel, and I’m not joking. For the newcomers, there are so much barriers that you must get over in order to reach the fruit of automation that you have to google every single problem you encounter until you ran into a GitHub issue which is closed with a “nvm, fixed it”.

I always deal with controllers as a glue for my applications and never done any logic inside them, including Validation & Authorization logic.Laravel FormRequest classes have helped me a lot with keeping my controllers as a glue, but I always found them very hard to be tested.

Let's learn on this short 3 tutorials series how to natively integrate OAuth providers like Facebook, Github or Twitter, into your Laravel authentication process. Additional we will also learn how to automatically register a new user retrieving information from the OAuth provider.

We are thrilled to announce the release of Scout Extended — the official Algolia Laravel integration.

I am not only a DevOps Engineer, but I have also started from ground zero with PHP since I was a litte kid, back in the days when I was in the 5th grade.

It may sound silly, but ever since I started developing web applications I’ve always found it painful to inspect and debug integrations between my app and third-party webhooks. In addition to the hassle of replicating events, I’ve never relied on testing “hypothetical” scenarios.

Part 1 is prerequisite configuration needed to make this work on your local environment.Part 2 is framework configuration to enable session sharing across subdomains. Let’s assume two projects, blog1 and blog2.

Hey guys, in this article, am going to show you how to implement multiple role-based authentication in Laravel even if you have many different users and multiple dashboards respectively.

Laravel Mailbox is a package by Marcel Pociot for handling incoming emails in your Laravel application. Mailbox features a fluent API that allows you to define custom mailboxes to catch incoming emails.

Private PHP packages can be installed using Composer. We need a little extra configuration in the composer.json file and then we setup our SSH key. Follow along with these 3 easy steps, and don't miss the caveat at the end. Create an SSH Key on the machine on which you want to install the package.

Just here to vent a bit. So, I wanted to find how is the password reset functionality tied to a field called email on the user model.

In the six days* from August 13th to August 20th, 2018, I interviewed at LinkedIn, Yelp, Apple, Amazon, Facebook, and Google and got all six job offers. Edit: follow-up post (with the $ offered) posted here! Follow my Twitter for future updates :)

One FREE lesson from my newest course "How to Structure Laravel Project".

Multilanguage projects are quite easy to configure in Laravel, but if you want to have locale as part of URL, like /en/about, then you will have trouble with Auth::routes(), they won’t work by default like /en/register. This article will show you what to do.

In your CRUD classes, it’s good practice to use FormRequest classes for validation. Usually people create one for store() method and one for update() – something like StoreUserRequest and UpdateUserRequest. But maybe it’s possible to combine them into one? It’s pretty easy, actually.

Recently I had a task of textarea fields to save data with for new lines in database but not show them in the forms. There’s a PHP function called nl2br for conversion, but there’s no official opposite br2nl.

Eloquent has one less-known function called withCount(): it helps to get the amount of related records inside of the main object. It also works with two layers deep, inside of hasManyThrough relations. Let’s take a look.

You may hear here and there than PHP date and time API is a bit of a mess and indeed everything is not perfect, but it’s not a reason to get your own code and application logic messy.

One of the major challenges in development is email testing on local development environments. This is why Mailtrap.io is a very essential service. Mailtrap is a fake SMTP server to test, view and share emails sent from the development and staging environments.

Connor Leech, our guest author, is a Software Engineer over at Stitch Labs. You can contact him through his email. The newly released Laravel version 5.7 adds a new capability to verify user’s emails.

So I initially thought there was more to this, but my team realized we could remove a bunch of unnecessary code from our spike.

In this tutorial, i would like to share with you how to generate qr code using simple-qrcode in laravel 5.7. you can simply create qr codes with specific url, text, size, color, backgroundColor, margin, format like png, eps, svg.

There are enough tutorials on sending custom emails with Laravel to fill several libraries. However, when I was faced with the challenge of customizing the default Laravel template, I couldn’t find any leads.

TLDR: I packaged up all the helper functions I use in my projects. They are cool. You can install it by running composer require calebporzio/awesome-helpers. First, let's walk through the new “component” architecture I decided to go with.

The Vue team announced yesterday the release of Vue version 2.6, which includes a new syntax for Vue slots. For the full details of Vue 2.6, check out Vue creator Evan You’s announcement post. Vue 2.6 "Macross" has been released! https://t.co/NMR4TXxAEk

This generator helps you with the boilerplate code to help you focus on what's most important: your package.

PHP 7.3 was released at the end of last year, but for many of us working with the latest version of PHP is not an option for a while. We are often restricted by the servers that we have to deploy to which can often be a version or two behind. This means that for many, the new features of PHP 7.

I hope my file manager will be useful to someone.

The PHPUnit development team announces the immediate availability of PHPUnit 8. This release adds new features, changes and removes existing features, and fixes bugs. Active support for PHP 7.1 ended on December 1, 2018. The only actively supported versions of PHP as of February 1, 2019 are PHP 7.

Simplicity; its sounds amazing and interesting right? For you to be able to build modules (a sub system) off your project and reuse them in another project. Yes! And that’s what I will be showing you in this article but first let’s understand the solution we are trying to solve.

You probably haven’t noticed yet, but the Laravel News website just got a fresh coat of paint. We just launched…

In Laravel upcoming 5.8’s release, the global string and array helpers are deprecated. The helper functions will be removed in Laravel 5.9. You can see the full list of helper functions deprecated in the merged pull request (PR #26898). The helpers will still be available in 5.8.

When using form request classes, it can be really handy to be able to manipulate the request data before running any of the validation rules. This could be to: Let's start with an example form request for storing a blog post. Take notice of the rules that are applied the inputs.

Laravel Blade is the template engine that’s built into the framework. It makes working with HTML a breeze. I have been working with Laravel for more than a year, but never realized some of Blade’s features.

API-based projects are more and more popular, and they are pretty easy to create in Laravel. But one topic is less talked about – it’s error handling for various exceptions. API consumers often complain that they get “Server error” but no valuable messages.

This is one FREE lesson from my latest course, reviewing a popular package to make Laravel projects modular.

A quick review of Laravel Wink by Mohamed Said. It provides a really pleasant writing experience, but is it good for actual fully-featured blog project? Let’s take a look.

When building CRUD-like projects, sometimes you want some items be accessible only with their parent, for example in countries-cities relationships, you don’t want to list all the cities in the world, but only by country, like /countries/123/cities, where 123 is country_id.

If you have a form separated into a few tabs with jQuery UI Tabs, then default Laravel validation will redirect you back to the first tab, even if the error was on the third tab. How to override it and set the correct tab proactively? It’s pretty simple, actually.

Laravel 5.5.5 introduced a new feature in routing, called Route::fallback(). Basically, if no route is matched, then fallback function is a way to override default 404 page and introduce additional logic. Here’s how it works.

Quick trick of Artisan make:xxxxx commands, how to also generate subfolders and namespaces with a new file.

Quick tip of the day. With routing you can specify Route::get(‘projects/{project_id}’, ‘ProjectController@show’); but what if you want project_id to be strictly a number?

Quick review of a package called EloquentFilter – it will help you move complicated search logic from controller to separate filter classes, to keep your code cleaner.

Small trick of PhpStorm function I've found only recently.

Not released yet, but a good feature review. As 5.7 was released in September 2018, we can expect to see the initial release of Laravel 5.8 sometime around March 2019.

Friendly error pages that help and inform users are essential for all websites and web apps, for example in the event the visitor enters an incorrect URL.

GraphQL is a query language for APIs. It was developed and open-sourced by Facebook and now maintained by communities all over the world. GraphQL enables declarative data fetching where a client can specify exactly what data it needs from an API.

Has anyone done it?, is it worth it? Is it worth it? It depends I think. If you're applying for a job I personally believe that every relevant certificate will help you.

We have been using Laravel Passport for authenticating API’s and first party applications such as single page apps (SPA)and native mobile apps and so far, the experience have been good. Passport is an OAuth2.0 implementation which works really well with Laravel’s default auth mechanism.

At times the simplest things are the most complicated. Here I would be making the very first attempt to further simplify the simpler things . So lets get started : That’s it folks , we are good to go .

In this tutorial we will learn to create Authentication System by using Laravel Passport. APIs are great and Laravel already makes it easy to perform Rest API authentication. APIs typically use tokens to authenticate users and do not maintain session state between requests.

Recently I have been working on a new Laravel application, halfway through the project I thought that a cool feature to have would be an instant search bar. They add a nice touch to any application and from a user experience point of view they’re pretty useful.

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 Lamen as API gateway, Laravel Passport as SSO server).

Have you ever deleted a production database? Deleted an incorrect row? Had a server crash and corrupt the DB? Or ran the wrong code against the wrong database?

At the end of last year, this blog was migrated to a new server, hosted by DigitalOcean. The old server ran on Apache but on the new server I wanted to try out the LEMP One-click application. LEMP stands for Linux, NGINX (say: en-juhn-ex), MySQL, PHP.

This isn’t my first rodeo with large datasets. The authentication and product management database that I have designed for the largest UK public Wi-Fi provider had impressive volumes too. We were tracking authentication for millions of devices daily.

Good development companies know: TDD is important to the health of the project developed in the long run, for several reasons. The era passed that unit testing was just a luxury or a “waste of time”. But even so, there are those project leaders who refuse to use TDD.

My first real job in the programming industry was at a startup that demanded the world of me. I began with them as one of those simple wordpress theme changer guys before quickly being given all the hats. The product was a loyalty-rewards program for merchants.

Laravel Translation Sheet is a package by Nassif Bourguig for translating Laravel language files using Google Sheets. What I love about this idea/package, is how easy it makes the process of collaborating on language translations with a standard tool like Google Sheets.

In the first part of this article on “how to build modular applications in Laravel” we discussed extensively on modules, and the benefits of modularizing your applications. You can find the part of this article here “How To Build Modular Applications in Laravel — Part 1”.

I really love new weekly podcast series by Taylor Otwell, where he shares his own workflow and some tips about Laravel, also sharing the light on what's coming soon.

One free lesson from course "How to Structure Laravel Project".

Introducing my new package, created for internal needs of QuickAdminPanel generator, but may be useful to the community, too, so decided to release it as open-source thing.

Spatie Laravel MediaLibrary is one of the most popular Laravel packages, with almost million downloads. But have you read all of its documentation, with all the features? Let’s dive in. In general, I notice that developers rarely read FULL documentation of the packages.

Laravel Auth system has a lot of features, but it doesn’t include suspending users for some time, like banning some angry forum user for 14 days to calm down. Luckily, it’s easy to implement, with Middleware. This article will show you how.

I know the title sounds unclear, so let me start with an example. What would be your Eloquent query if you have birth_date field in DB an want to show how many of your users are adult 18+ years, and how many are still children? Let’s take a look.

Laravel validation system is great, including auto-populating error messages. But what if you want to override the names of the :attribute parameter values? Here’s a simple example.

I'm excited to announce that my new course ”PHP Package Development” is now available! Learn all about @laravelphp and generic PHP package creation in over 30 lessons!

I recently purchased a course called “PHP Package Development” by @marcelpociot. The course was really good. If you are interested in package development for Laravel apps, I highly recommend it. After completing the course I decided to take a stab at developing a package.

Tutorial where we will work on an existing Laravel project.

In this article, I would like to show you how you can use Angular instead of Vue as your modern javascript library (yes, I know only Vue is a mere library, while Angular is our powerhouse framework).

I have a standard User model with a few hundred users in my database. Now I want to add another model (Experience) to my Laravel app. Every User object should have an Experience Object associated with it.

It is time for a change in the tools that I use. And I’ll tell you why! First of all, I want to make sure that you know about my intentions. I am not trying to rant about Laravel or why other frameworks might be better.

We left off building a real users endpoint and learned about a new way to fetch component data with Vue router in part 3. Now we’re ready to move our attention to creating CRUD functionality for our users—this tutorial will focus on editing existing users.

Are you switching from PHP Storm, Web Storm or Sublime? I personally love JetBrains’ IDEs and of course Sublime is amazing. I used both of them for many years now. But when ever I go online I look at people’s working on Visual Studio Code everywhere.

This article explains the basic concepts of the command bus. Why should you use it and how? Pointers are given to advanced use cases and good resources. A command is an object that signals an intent, like RegisterUser. The command is passed to the command bus.

Starting in Laravel 5.8, as long as policies and models are in the conventional locations, you will not need to register them in the AuthServiceProvider class: In Laravel 5.

An enumeration type, "enum" for short, is a data type to categorise named values. Enums can be used instead of hard coded strings to represent, for example, the status of a blog post in a structured and typed way. PHP doesn't have a native enum type.

What are your suggestions? The only one I have enjoyed and repeated so far is "Never write custom actions" by Adam Wathan. I'm sure there could be others, but the lack of summaries/ titles on the videos make it hard to find more gems.

Basically wondering what use cases there are for using Doctrine instead of things like Eloquent which follows the rails Active Record pattern? If I googled right, the key is that Doctrine is best for things that involve multiple transactions in your queries?

Laravel Tinker Server is a package by Marcel Pociot that enables you to tinker with your variables in real-time while working on your Laravel app. This package collects data via calls to a tinker() helper that ships with the package and allow you to then interact with those variables on the fly.

A significant part of what we do at Smartbnb is automating messaging between hosts and guests on Airbnb and HomeAway/VRBO. Messages that our system captures from the two platforms are stored in separate tables.

I have seen many noob developers (and uninformed clients) opt for shared hosting. And, the results have generally been similar: problems in app deployment and slow performance and page load speed for all users. Developers opt to deploy Laravel on shared hosting for one reason – cost saving.

The Repository Pattern in Laravel is a very useful pattern with a couple of great uses. The first use is the abstraction that it provides. Meaning, it adds another layer between your application logic and your database. Spread the word! Share with your fellow developers.

With this package you can translate your language files using a translator service. Currently the package ships only with Google Translate. Specify a source language and a target language and it will automatically translate your files.

This is a quick tip post about a nice way to format your validation errors when working with a Laravel API. While the above is a pretty sensible default format, it might be inconsistent with the rest of your API and thus cause confusion with your API consumers.

In this article, we will deploy a Laravel web application on Amazon Web Services and we will scale it across several instances. These instances will share a single MySQL database that will be deployed on the Amazon Relational Database Service(RDS).

Well, this took me close to a month, with a couple of sleepless nights and a few drops of tears on being asked about the status of the task, since I was very new to Laravel.

Developers tend to spectacularly underestimate the effort involved in such a rewrite (more on that below), and spectacularly overestimate the value generated (more on that below, as well).

We know everyone has their own tooling and workflow preferences, which is why we’re excited to unveil our latest release: user owned project boards.

A checklist for all projects that are going live. This checklist is used whenever a project is going live at https://spatie.be

Power of getting up very early, at 4-5am. This week 3yr old daughter was ill and stayed at home all week, meanwhile wife worked full-time. Without grandparents/aunties/nannies, I still managed to squeeze in 32 hours of work this week, according to my RescueTime (see image attached).

Whenever I read Laracasts forum, I'm fascinated how developers do things in certain way only they can understand, and then try looking for help on forums so someone would understand their messed up code. Many times code samples in questions just beg to be rewritten from zero.

"I'm almost done, there's just small piece to refactor and I will push the code soon" - famous last words by every developer ever.

Noticed I quite often click Cmd+S while browsing in Chrome. Weird developer habit.

I'm still amazed how many questions developers ask me (and generally online on forums) when they can find answer in the official documentations, just too "lazy" to read to that Page 9 or scroll down a few times.

With every project I work on, more and more I realize value of a project manager. Cause team of developers, especially remote, especially with non-tech clients, can do MAGIC, both in good and bad sense.

After getting many questions like “How do you find time to blog daily” or “Why do you do that, it’s not profitable”, I decided to shoot a video, openly sharing my numbers for revenue, popularity, visitors etc. So, let’s talk business.

Multi-tenancy is pretty common in web-projects – when you want to give records access only for users who created those records. In other words, everyone manages their own data and don’t see anyone else’s data.

Laravel migration mechanism has a great function of seeding data. In this article, I will show random tips from my own experience, how to use seeding in real-life cases. Second attempt to run seeder would probably fail because of conflicting IDs.

Package for those who want to have landing page with email subscription form before they actually launch their project.

Quick review of a package that checks if all your routes are covered by feature tests.

In December of 2018, I received an email from Google, saying that they are , and that I have 3 projects that use it for Login with Google. They suggested to move from “Google+ Sign In” to “Google Sign In”. Subtle difference, but new API.

Laravel 5.8 is now released and available to everyone. This release includes several new features along with the latest bug fixes and improvements to the framework’s core. Check out our PHP dotenv 3.0 Released article for full details on the v3.0 updates.

The question is how to delete all jobs which are queued in Laravel when you are using redis as the Queue driver. Using the laravel-queue-clear package which is developed by Craig Morris that provides a useful tool to delete all kinds of queued jobs by an artisan command.

If you are new to AWS, let me assure you that launching an EC2 and RDS is quite easy. AWS console provides very simple wizard to navigate you through the process. If you don’t have an AWS account, you can create one for free.

In this tutorial, we will look at how to set up Laravel Mix to compile SCSS, LESS or plain CSS for your application. Laravel Mix is a tool for compiling and optimizing assets in a Laravel app. It's similar to a build tool like gulp, Grunt and such like.

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New upcoming course from official Laravel Excel package creators. Or, alternatively, you can get my course on Laravel Excel for only $19 :)

TL,DR; By using Live Templates you can speed up writing the boilerplate part of a lot of code. Live Templates can be easily shared within a team.

I'm pretty confused on how I should implement authentification system with both Laravel and ReactJS. Laravel needs auth on its part to perform some action like profile update etc and ReactJS needs the same user to check whether or not he is able to modify the page he is looking.

If you are PHP developer, chance you know Laravel are high. Laravel is one of the most popular PHP Framework today. Getting started with Laravel is easy, make sure you have meet all requirements, and composer create-project --prefer-dist laravel/laravel something .

During the development of any project that involves storing or manipulating information there are times when having realistic “dummy” data is very helpful. Dummy data can be useful for testing your database structure, your user interface or export functions within your app.

If you’re doing PHP unit test in Laravel, this code snippets might be useful for you. Basically, the most common test we made on every features is CRUD. So I made this code to use it on every feature.

You can find the full code example here on Github. Be sure to use the graphql-demo branch. I am building this demo off of another article. If you need the basics on GraphQL check it out!

Laravel’s events provide a simple observer implementation, allowing you to subscribe and listen for various events that occur in your application. Event classes are typically stored in the app/Events directory, while their listeners are stored in app/Listeners… Read more