Laravel Daily #41: Testing, Laravel 5.3 and Zend Framework 3

PHP Exceptions are thrown when an unprecedented event or error occurs. As a rule of thumb, an exception should not be used to control the application logic such as if-statements and should be a subclass of the Exception class.

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All sites owned by EU citizens or targeted towards EU citizens must comply to a crazy EU law. This law requires a dialog to be displayed to inform the users of your websites how cookies are being used. You can read more info on the legislation on the site of the European Commission.

Time to promote some open source projects again! This time we’ve got an alternative to Laravel, but one that requires PHP7 (awesome!), some packages that really care about request validation and query param filtering, HPKP (security upgrades for everyone!), a package that makes your objects stri

TL;DR: Laravel is a great PHP framework. Currently, it is the most starred PHP project on Github and a lot of companies and people all over the world use it to build amazing applications.

For the uninitiated among you, Laravel, the brain-child of Taylor Otwell, is an open source PHP framework, architected to follow the MVC design pattern.

New episode of Laravel News Podcast.

In this video I will do the actual coding to get the Facebook login to working. You can find the code on this url: https://github.com/amitavroy/mywall/t...

Lessons video series, unfinished for now.

MailThief is a new package by Tighten Co. that provides a fake mailer for your Laravel application. This makes it easy to test email without actually sending any. To better explain how this package works take a look at the following example from the project.

Ask any Laravel developer what they love about Laravel, and they’ll rattle off a large number of technical benefits: It’s powerful, it’s elegant, it adheres to modern coding standards, it’s well documented, etc.

This is Part One of Practical Software Architecture series. A blog posts series I’m planning to post unscheduled whenever a practical need arise in a real-world use case. It’s also an evolving and incremental experience, so some point of views may be changed overtime.

After 17 months of effort, hundreds of releases, tens of thousands of commits by hundreds of contributors, and millions of installs, we're pleased to announce the immediate availability of Zend Framework 3. What is Zend Framework 3?

Handling file uploads sucks. Code-wise it's a fairly simple task, the files get sent along with a POST request and are available server-side in the $_FILES super global.

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In the video below you will learn about why you can evolve your career of developer by working in your own company developing your own software products and selling to many customers, instead of working for others for a limited amount of money.