Top PHP Projects, Telescope vs Larametrics, and .env Files

A small project I've created for my course "Eloquent: Expert Level".

A common problem while working in a team is some custom variables needed, when only one person on the team knows that they are needed, and then other people have errors because they don’t have that variable. Like API Tokens for 3rd party apps, default values for some function – basically, anything that should be in .env file. So here’s an instruction for you, how to put new environment variables correctly, without screwing up teammates work.

Quick tip if you want to run some migration BEFORE another migration, and re-arrange the order.

It’s been almost a year since I decided to start building a self-hosted Laravel package dedicated to monitoring and notifying you of errors and changes in your application.

Symfony is a PHP framework for web applications and a set of reusable PHP components. Symfony is used by thousands of web applications (including BlaBlaCar.com and Spotify.com) and most of the popular PHP projects (including Drupal and Magento).

Laravel’s first employee, Mohamed Said, joined the team over two years ago. Last month we added our second employee: Dries Vints. Dries has been a part of the Laravel community for a very long time — as long as I can remember.

In this tutorial we will develop a full API authentication system which can be used by any application which is able to perform requests (React, Vue or Angular for instance). Let’s start!

Laravel Tag Helper is a package by Marcel Pociot for adding powerful HTML tag helpers to your Laravel application. As a quick example of what this package can do, it ships with a few helpers out of the box. The package works by registering tag helpers in a service provider’s boot() method.

Interesting discussion on Reddit with real-life experience from real users of Nova.

Testing a Laravel application has a low barrier to entry compared to other PHP frameworks. I did come across a small problem while testing an application’s api and thought I’d share a solution here.

Mercurius is a real-time messenger system developed with Laravel and Vue.js. It features a complete application, and you can easily install with any Laravel project. Check here to try a demo, and use the following credentials to authenticate.

Laravel Telescope is a new debug assistant for the Laravel framework, created by the same people who created Laravel. It was first announced at Laracon AU, and its beta was released shortly after. It’s free and open source, licensed under the MIT license.

Often we need to handle subdomains with our Laravel application. Let’s take a look, how can we treat the routes dynamically and set up the subdomain with Valet and Forge. According to the documentation, we can easily set up subdomains in our route files.

Why write code like this public function edit($articleId) { $article = Article::findOrFail($articleId); return view('articles.edit', compact('article')); } When you can simply do public function edit(Article $article) { return view('articles.

Laravel offers a convenient way to create asynchronous background tasks using its queues. We utilize those heavily at Oh Dear! for all our monitoring jobs and in this post we'll share some of our lessons learned and what we consider to be best practices.

Is it by freelancing or getting a salaried job (maybe as a full-stack engineer)? I've had a little bit of coding experience doing front-end and mobile work but none doing back-end or database stuff. I want to be able to create my own Indie Hacker-style software solution one day.

Announced at Laracon AU 2018, and released shortly therafter, Laravel Telescope is an elegant debugging assistant for the Laravel Framework, improving upon functionality available in Laravel Debugbar.

Chat bot’s popularity has been growing these past years because of it’s great functionality and reliability to handle some cases in business. And also, Bot has been supported by lots of instant messaging service provider such as Telegram, Line, Facebook, etc.

For a project I'm working on I needed to build a lightweight, pragmatic search. In this blogpost I'd like to go over my solution. Imagine you need to provide a search for users. Using Eloquent you can perform a search like this:

In Part 1, we introduced that this series would cover the process of building and maintaining an open-source package for Laravel. Check it out for an overview of what we’ll create in this series. Next, we are going to get to work on scaffolding a new Laravel package.