Laravel Daily #40: Birthdays, Laravel Name and PHP Tips

BIRTHDAY

Important day for this blog – on June 22, 2015 I wrote the first article here. The idea was to share small tips daily, and now it’s time to recap on what actually happened during that year.

Five years ago today Taylor announced the first release of Laravel to the world. I’ve been working on this framework for about 7 months. I’ve worked really hard to make it powerful, yet accessible. I set out to launch with documentation as good as CodeIgniter from day one, and I think we did.

LiveCoding website section for Laravel framework

Laravel is a PHP framework for modern web apps. Recently upgraded to version 5, Laravel is a mature system that continues to win support due to its elegance and stability.

Web sites that benefit from a framework like Laravel often don’t just serve static content. Many deal with complex and mixed data sources, and one of the most common (and most complex) is user input and its myriad forms: URL paths, query parameters, POSTed data, and file uploads.

If you don’t separate your logic, you might fall into this trap where your controllers will quickly become really fat and unreadable. Here is an example of what you should have done : Now, your boss needs a referral program.

The process of software development is complicated. When we face problems, we usually try to tackle the complexity by turning it into more understandable and manageable pieces.

If you keep up with the Laravel community at all you’ll be aware that Taylor Otwell recently released his much anticipated SaaS scaffolding library called Spark.

Laravel PackMe is a project starter pack which combine all basic stuff (src, tests) in order to develop a package for Laravel 5.*. It takes care about tests and best pratices I gathered over some cool repository. With one command line, you are ready to develop a package in good condition.

One of our more popular packages is laravel-analytics. The package makes it easy to fetch information such as pageviews, top referrers, etc… from the Google Analytics API. In our Blender-based projects we use the fetched data to display a nice chart in the admin section:

Out of all reviews I've done in my Experiencing series, this was by far the one I had most fun with while preparing for and while recording the review. Dashboards or status boards are software objects I'm magically drawn towards even before the Oblivion movie with it's incredible surface-like admin

Does anyone knows where the name "Laravel" came from? Not a hard question. But a lot of people don't know how this sexy name was conceived. What does Laravel mean? Is it made up? What was Taylor thinking? I'm pretty sure it was along the lines of: "Man, that sounds sexy!"

A few weeks ago, Taylor Otwell introduced another branded product within the Laravel line: Laravel Echo. So far, the only coverage it's gotten has been his Laracasts video intro, but I recently wrote it up for my book and wanted to share that with you.

When storing content in the database a typical pattern for retrieving it is to create a unique “slug” based on the title. This gives users and search engines a human-friendly way to access it through the URL. For example, a typical URL might look like, site.com/post/1.

When i was working on my ecommerce website on laravel, i was need to apply search engine for my website. I was confused and thinking what i have to use, but my senior suggested to me elasticsearch for search engine. But i had no experience elasticsearch.

Every two weeks I send out a newsletter containing lots of interesting stuff for the modern PHP developer. You can expect quick tips, links to interesting tutorials, opinions and packages. Want to learn the cool stuff? Then sign up now! Over at the excellent dotdev.

When I started using Laravel Valet to host my developer environment I got problems trying to use xdebug. Luckily the fix is easy. Valet use port 9000 which is the same xdebug is using by default. To fix this, change the port to e.g. 9001.

PHP is one of the most popular programming languages around the world, and the recent PHP 7 release made this server-side programming language better and more stable than ever. PHP is widely used in major projects.

Package to build your next powerful web app

Over 5,000 commits in the making, PyroCMS is officially back with it's newest and most powerful stable release ever! We are SUPER excited to announce PyroCMS v3.

This is a collection of known design patterns and some sample code how to implement them in PHP. Every pattern has a small list of examples (most of them from Zend Framework, Symfony2 or Doctrine2 as I'm most familiar with this software).

Collection of git-tips, want to add your tips? Checkout contributing.md P.S: All these commands are tested on git version 2.7.4 (Apple Git-66).

Proper MySQL Query Optimization starts with a proper Slow Query Logging session. And MySQL Query Optimization is where I spend 70-80% of my time when doing MySQL performance optimization. In this short series I will show you how to do Slow Query Logging the right way.

In this article we will see how using Test Driven Development (TDD, explained in deep a little later in the article) helps to write good quality code that is maintainable, reusable, and easy to debug and fix when bugs happen. PHP and testing didn’t start together as friends.

Squiz Labs, the creators of PHP_CodeSniffer, put together an analysis of coding conventions across 193 PHP projects. The report outlines a lot of small things like average line length, camel casing, new array syntax, and more.