.env protection, Cloud Faker, and other useful packages

It is a demo project for demonstrating what can be generated with QuickAdminPanel tool. Hotel Booking is all generated with QuickAdmin except for some custom code for Room Search. Basically, feel free to use and re-use any way you want.

Laravel v5.6.4 was released this morning and comes as usual with several bug fixes, improvements and additions.

Laravel v5.6.5 patches an issue with orWhere*() arguments and comes with three neat enhancements.

Another week, another Laravel release.

Laravel v5.6.7 was released today to resolve a security advisory for Parsedown, the Markdown parser that Laravel uses.

Wherein I describe my approach and defend the creation of yet another price bot. Like many I’ve talked to in recent months, I wish I had taken Bitcoin seriously when I first encountered it.

In the Laravel 5.6.0 release Sebastian De Deyne contributed Blade component aliases and then in Laravel 5.6.4, he added a similar feature for Blade include aliases. Let’s go over how you can use both in your Laravel 5.6 projects!

Have I been pwned? is a service created by Troy Hunt that aims to archive all data breaches and then allow you to check and see if your email or username has been included in any breaches.

In this tutorial I’ll cover how to setup JSON Web Token authentication using Laravel and Vue JS. The tutorial will have two parts. The first part will cover setting up Laravel to generate JSON Web Tokens.

The e function is a simple wrapper of PHP's htmlentities function. The e function utilizes the UTF-8 character encoding. The e function will sanitize user input when displaying it to the browser.

Fakejson is an API service for developers and designers to quickly mock up fake data. Use it to test your ideas, generate prototypes or showcase your designs. Get notified when we launch.

Open source can change your life. It has changed mine with Corcel, an open source project I started in 2013 that changed who I am, and how I live. The first title I gave to this post was How open source can change your life for the better.

GitHub announced that the pull request screen now supports the ability to quickly review changed functions in PHP projects. Visit the pull requests page and in the list, click the one where you’d like to find the changed functions and methods.

A way to subscribe on new trending repositories in your favorite programming language on GitHub. Updates come as GitHub notifications once a day or a week. If you'd like to add new language - feel free to open an issue.

Laracon Online 2018 was the biggest Laravel event in 2018. The event saw over 4300 attendees and more joined in through chat and other options. It was well organized and the talks were diverse, informative and very relevant to the real-world Laravel development.

Laravel Model Observers is a great feature. Observers are used to group event listeners for a model. Observers classes method names refer to the Eloquent event you want to listen for. These methods receive the model as their only argument. Laravel does not include a default directory for observers.

Testing your code is an essential part of the development process, but sometimes it could also be expensive when you try to emulate many uses cases based on a set of different input data.

Github announced that in 30 days they will no longer allow anonymous Gist creation any longer. The reason they stated…

I have created a trait you can add in Laravel that will give it a schedule on which you can check against.

Disclaimer: I found the original article, written in Indonesian, here: https://medium.com/@dfdenni/vulnerable-dot-env-laravel-e34617921ec2 — but since the topic is quite important, I decided to write about it in english too.

Lumen is a micro-framework built on top of Laravel’s core components. Lumen utilizes a lot of familiar concepts from Laravel such as Eloquent, caching, routing, middleware and it’s service container.