5.7 Release, Nova and PHP 7.3

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Laravel 5.7 is now released and available to everyone. This release introduces several new features and many bug fixes and improvements over 5.6. Some of the new features include: With the release today Laravel 5.

In Laravel 5.6 and below authorization gates and policies automatically return false for unauthenticated users. New in Laravel 5.7, you can now allow guests to go through authorization checks by using a nullable type-hint or setting the default value as null.

Another cool project by Marcel Pociot and his Beyond Code company.

Laravel Nova gives us an easy way to manage the data in our Laravel applications. With a few lines of code, you can define "resources" corresponding to your Eloquent models, and Nova will generate beautiful interfaces for common CRUD tasks. Its real power, however, lies in the customization options.

At Maatwebsite we love Laravel! Of course we couldn’t wait to get our hands on Laravel Nova! We can tell you… the wait was worth it! Considering our primary open source focus is Laravel Excel, we couldn’t stay behind and now introduce you Laravel Nova Excel.

.@themsaid has been working on something fresh.

I fired up a @discordapp server for @laravelphp if you any of you use that app for chatting: https://discord.

Blade is a great template engine, simple yet powerful . If you know Laravel framework, you already know how great is Laravel Blade and it’s syntax . In our daily work, often we found our self writing complex logic and conditions in our Blade .

I recently began refactoring a bunch of code on a project and found myself putting the same methods on my Eloquent models for a relation to an Account class. FYI I prefer to have getters and setters rather than accessing properties magically.

large files can be read fairly easily with PHP the issue is when you start inserting the data into a database, even worse if you're first checking if the record already exists. In that case, say you're working with a 100 lined CSV file your end up doing 200 queries.

When building applications, there are times when you would like to allow users to remove data from their view but keep the record in the database. An example could be allowing a user to delete their account, but you want to give them the opportunity to restart it later.

OWASP (Open Web Application Security Project) is a project that notes down the current threats to a web application.

PHP 7.3 is knocking at our doors and with it comes new useful features, functionalities, deprecations, and a good number of bug fixes. This release is all about web developers. The current Beta 2 version was released on August 16, coming perfectly on time with the PHP 7.3 timetable.

Humans evolved to stand upright and outrun their predators, so it’s no wonder sitting sedentary in a halogen-lit office is ruining the species. But it’s not just your lower back and general outlook on life slowly being crippled by your 9-to-5. It’s also your butt. Hemorrhoids. Irritation.