Laravel Daily #39: Security, Useful Packages and Zen Programmers

My new 5-minute episode of my Laravel Business show - I answer a question from Twitter follower.

Everyone had a situation when one variable had to be accessible in every view file, for some of us it was $user, for others it was $currentPage or any other case dependent variable. And some of you use Base Controller for that. Let me show you why it’s wrong.

jrean/laravel-user-verification is a PHP package built for Laravel 5 to easily handle a user verification flow and validate its email. About Generate and store a verification token for a registered user. Send an email with the verification token link. Handle the verification of the token.

Time travelling (change logs) for Laravel 5 models. Run the following command on your project root. composer require conceptbyte/time-traveller

Talk is a Laravel 5 based user conversation (inbox) system. You can easily integrate this package with your any laravel based project. Its help to you to develop a messeging system in 25 mins. So lets start :) Talk is a laravel package so you can install it via composer.

Laravel documentation recommends to use supervisor for queue workers and *IX cron for scheduled tasks. However, when deploying your application to AWS Elastic Beanstalk, neither option is available. This package helps you run your Laravel (or Lumen) jobs in AWS worker environments.

Laravel Giphy is a Giphy API wrapper for Laravel (and Lumen but ssh, don't tell anyone), providing an easy to access Giphy facade. To use this package without running in to trouble you will need PHP 5.5+ or HHVM 3.6+, and Composer.

Quarx is a CMS for Laravel applications. It provides numerous components that enable developers to put together powerful applications but also provide the means for people to edit the content of those powerful applications.

Today we released our new package called laravel-blade-javascript. It provides you with a javascript Blade directive to export PHP variables to JavaScript.

Welcome to LaraWebEd! Hey! I'm a front-end developer and newbie in PHP and Laravel. I have just learn Laravel for a few month (just 5 ~ 6 months). I have write a CMS for this framework, something like WordPress lol. Support multi language. I hope it can helps you more for start a new project.

HTTP Middlewares provide a convenient mechanism for filtering HTTP requests entering your application. Laravel, for example, has a middleware for verifying a user's authentication. These are some cases where I have had to resort to using middleware.

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Copy .env.example to .env and enter necessary config for DB and Oauth Providers Settings. Since Most of the configuration are laravel defaults, we will only cover additional env configurations. Click here for laravel configuration details

One of the questions I am asked all the time about the Stormpath Laravel package is, “Why do I need to use a package for authentication in Laravel when it is built in?” I will be the first to admit that the Laravel authentication is well built and a great addition to the framework.

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This tutorial will begin by walking you through the integration of the Laravel 5 and Bootstrap 3 themes. Afterwards, you will learn how to add a PHP datagrid. The complete demo file is available at the end of this tutorial.

The intention of this article was to explain the somewhat confusing optimization commands that shipped with Laravel prior to version 5.1. With Laravel 5.1, released in June 2015, the commands and their logic have been cleaned up, and the article has been updated to reflect the changes.

If you're familiar with the PHP community, then you're likely familiar with a number of the different applications and frameworks that are currently popular in the development space today. One of the more common frameworks that we're seeing used to build web applications is Laravel.

Wondering how to get current Laravel project version in code? If you’re not using code to check version, artisan is your friend.

PHP communities are working hard to keep the atmosphere pleasant. Programming is fun and enjoyable and when a programming language makes development easy, coding becomes love. Not long ago the latest major version of PHP was released, the version 7.0.

Jordi Boggiano, the creator and maintainer of Composer and Packagist, released some fresh statistics on which PHP version composer users are running. A few observations: 5.3 dropped to almost nothing which is great news! 5.4 is also down by almost 10% and is definitely on the way out. 5.

Note: The recommendations in this post are intended for a very advanced audience. While the content applies broadly, creating and maintaining your own framework is not advised for everyone, unless you know exactly what you’re doing.

Building or architecting a REST API is not an easy task, especially when you have to do it for legacy PHP projects. There are a lot of 3rd party libraries nowadays that make it easy to implement a REST API, but integrating them into existing legacy codebases can be rather daunting.

As many of you will agree with me, sleep deprivation is the enemy of programming. Maybe we fear only one thing more than that: being interrupted.

We’ve discussed Composer best practices before, and I’ve always advocated using composer global require when installing packages that can be used across several projects – particularly command line tools. Then, the other day, I ran into this discussion.

UPDATE: "The Zen Programmer" book is available! Click here. On a rainy morning I found myself sitting on the desk thinking about efficient working. Before I started as a freelancer I had some days were I worked lots but could look only back on a worse outcome.