Github Tips, Excel Export and Admin Interfaces

Laravel-Excel package is great for exporting data. But not a lot of info there about formatting Excel cells – widths, word wraps, fonts etc. So when I encountered this in a client’s project, I decided to write this article with a few tips on this topic.

Video demo of Laravel package called Parental, by Tighten Co - Matt Stauffer's team.

I’ve compiled a list of my favorite GitHub tips and tricks that I use in my workflow daily. You might be familiar with some or even all of them, but I find that developers new to GitHub and veterans alike might pick up a new tip or two by sharing!

Reddit discussion that includes our own QuickAdminPanel mentioned by community.

We’re going to look at five Laravel Blade directives you can use to simplify your templates, and learn about some convenient directives that make solving specific problems a cinch! If you’re new to the framework, these tips will help you discover the excellent features of Blade, Laravel’s temp

In this article i will explain how to integrate responsive images and progressive image loading in your laravel app.This will give your app a big performance boost. First thing’s first.

Video from PHP fwdays'18 conference that took place on June 10 in Kyiv.

Putting unique id to requests one of my silver bullet while designing RESTful APIs. It provides extremely easily way to following each request’s lifecycle while I need to debugging. In this guide I’ll show you how you can add it to your log files on Laravel 5.6.

This article originally appeared on LaravelUK. This may seem obvious to many of you, but I always think it’s worth talking about the obvious things in case it helps someone.

Lets say you have a News.php model and want to easily generate share URL’s for this, just adding a Trait and being able to call 1 method on that model would be lovely, won’t it? We’ll I have just got just that Trait class for you:

New series from Laracasts.

Sentiment Analysis is the process of determining whether a piece of text is positive, negative, or neutral. The goal of this article is to get you up and running using the Google Natural Language API with Laravel. You’ll be using this API to perform sentiment analysis on text.

I'm giving a talk soon about Laravel and "the enterprise", and the concept of LOC (lines of code) keeps coming up. It turns out that's actually a much harder number to discover than you might think, so I figured I would write up a few options here.

Recently, I grew tired of hearing people say, "Laravel is fine for small apps, but when you are working in the Enterprise..." You can almost hear the capital E in enterprise, like they're talking about the starship.

Laravel 5.6.26 was released June 20th with allowing the passing of the recipient name in mail notifications; the table name is now passed to post-migration create hooks, array/collections are now allowed in Auth::attempt(), and more.

Writing tests for an application is a great software development practice. Often, it is the first coding task to be performed before building the features of an application. As the first coding task, tests are initially written to fail because we have no code to satisfy the requirements of the test.

The Laravel Eloquent Status package by Rasmus Christoffer Nielsen is a package that helps you check the state and status of eloquent models without cluttering them. You might have deeply held opinions about how to accomplish this scope, but I think you get the idea.

Laravel Tenancy is a package by Daniël Klabbers, Paulo Trajano, and Bertrand Kintanar, for making your Laravel application multi-tenant: The unobtrusive Laravel package that makes your app multi-tenant. Serving multiple websites, each with one or more hostnames from the same codebase.

Laravel Share is an easy way to share any data through a request. With Laravel Share you can share any data through a request to use later. You should consider it as an array that are available everywhere. I mean EVERYWHERE! From Service Provider to routes, middlewares, controllers and views.