How to Schedule Tasks and Broadcast Events

Quick tip of the day. Default Laravel Auth comes with User table and model, but without logging capability, so we need to build it ourselves. Fortunately, it’s very easy, I will show you one method. Let’s say that we want to save user’s last login time and IP address in the same users table.

Back in late 2016 I wrote an article called GraphQL: Tips after a year in production. Since then, GraphQL started offering native subscriptions, Relay got so good you could replace Redux with Relay Modern, and I learned a few neat tricks along the way. I’ve also made a bunch of mistakes.

We wrote about Joseph Silber’s Laravel page cache package, which provides static HTTP response caching for Laravel. There are other open-source packages for caching HTTP responses in Laravel so we thought we’d gather a list of HTTP cache packages you should check out.

Validation in Laravel is covered a great deal in the docs, but is more focused on using them in Controllers, but theres nothing stopping you from using them in other places, Console Commands for example.

The last couple of months, I have been working on a PIM tool that required lots of scheduled jobs and commands. As you might imagine my app/Console/Kernel.php file ended up looking a bit messy and difficult to maintain. Something similar to this:

Developing Composer packages locally through a local file symlink speeds up development immensely when you want to create Laravel packages and try them out on a real application. I was reading about a fancy bash alias by Caleb Porzio, which is a bash alias inspired by npm link.

Laravel Passport provides a full OAuth2 server implementation for your Laravel application in a matter of minutes. The Passport migrations will create the tables your application needs to store clients and access tokens.

Today, we are going to explore the concept of broadcasting in the Laravel web framework. It allows you to send notifications to the client side when something happens on the server side. In this article, we are going to use the third-party Pusher library to send notifications to the client side.

Swoole is a production-grade async programming framework for PHP. It is a PHP extension written in pure C language, w…

If you are creating a Laravel app with subscriptions via Stripe - Laravel Cashier might just be the helping hand you were looking for. Laravel Cashier is an “expressive, fluent interface to Stripe’s subscription billing services”.

Recently a new package has revolutionised the creation of a GraphQL API in Laravel. This package makes it so simple and easy to setup a GraphQL server, that it gives you the same feeling you had first time you worked with Laravel, “What magic is this!”. This package is of course Lighthouse.

Laravel is a PHP framework that uses Eloquent, a powerful and amazing ORM that allows you to do complex SQL queries in a very easy way. But sometimes you need more, and here I’m gonna give you an interesting tip that can bring you a lot of flexibility.

At Spatie we have over 180 public repositories. Some of our packages have become quite popular. We're very grateful that many of our users open up issues and PRs to ask questions, notify us of problems and try to solve those problems, ... Most of these issues and PRs are handled by our team.

You're in the car business, your job is to make cars on-demand. The object-oriented programmer in you says: "no problem, I'll make a blueprint that I can use to make as much cars as I want!". For this car to work, it needs an engine and wheels.

In our previous post, we learnt what are accessors and mutators, how can they be helpful and how to write them in our Models. Let's now understand how to check if an accessor or mutator exists for an attribute.

The middleware checks every request against a big list of EU IP addresses, and returns an HTML error page if the IP address is blocked.

This package helps you to be compliant with the GDPR article 20. By default, the entire toArray form of the App\User model will be made available for download. If you would like to customize the downloadable data, you may override the toPortableArray() method on the model:

I am not gonna share anything groundbreaking. These are notes for dummies or, better, forgetful dummies who need to retrace step by step the work in order to continue between learning sessions. I have been working with Laravel for quite some time and I think I have become somewhat proficient.

today, most of the developer choose mongodb as database, because it takes less memory to store data and the very simple way we can use it. Laravel is also more popular in today's market. So in this tutorial, I would like to share with you Laravel 5.6 with MongoDB CRUD operation.

Laravel provides since version 5.5 own api-transformers to transform your eloquent models into JSON. This could be very handy in a lot of situations when you build API´s using Laravel. But how can you consume and paginate the results of your api within your application using Vue.

Now that we have our comments functionality in place with Vue.js and our components styled by Tailwind CSS, it's time to start using Laravel to persist our comments. Let's get this show on the road by setting up our Comment model.

By default models are located within the App namespace, which can become quite overwhelming if you are working on a large application. So I decided to organize my models within the App\Models namespace instead.

While working for a client whose codebase had a lot of legacy code I faced an interesting challenge, I needed to change the database connection on an already instantiated query builder, and I couldn’t do it the Laravel way.

Enter Raw Expressions. They’re document but not fully (see https://laravel.com/docs/5.6/queries#raw-expressions), particularly for doing update queries, which I’ll focus on in this article.