Laravel Excel Course! (+Dozens of Laravel Articles)

I receive a lot of questions about working with Excel in Laravel, so decided to prepare a video course, discussing all the cases like formatting, working with big files, formulas, encoding etc. Shooting videos is in progress, full course will be available in mid-December 2018. Meanwhile, you can purchase it for early-bird price, 66% off.

File uploads are one of the essential things in web apps these days. But secure download of these files is sometimes even more important. So how to store files securely so people wouldn’t have access to them or guess their URLs or IDs of their records? Here’s a small demo tutorial.

Laravel doesn’t have color picker field as a default option, but we can build one easily, please follow this tutorial. We will generate our form with QuickAdminPanel, but it’s not necessary – it’s a simple CRUD.

This article is a simple example of belongsToMany() relationships in Laravel, with managing the data in CRUD form and table, using Bootstrap framework and Select2 library. Here’s what we’re building – a list of articles with their tags.

Mini-package review of orangehill/iseed

A simple CRUD. Video was created for my online-course which was never released and cancelled, so I decided to put it up as a separate video.

A short demo. Video was created for my online-course which was never released and cancelled, so I decided to put it up as a separate video.

So proud that our QuickAdminPanel made no.1 on the list!

Really really good list, feels similar to my e-book full of short Laravel tips. Here are some features from Laravel that you may not be aware of. They're not exactly anything advanced or hidden, but I don't really notice that these functions get used or referenced very often. (Maybe they are though, and I've just not noticed it.)

Last month at the Laravel PHP Paris meetup, Nuno Maduro introduced his newest package called Scout Extended.

This guide will make you install Xdebug on your Mac without the performance downsides, but still being able to use all the Xdebug goodnesses. Most Xdebug setups only allow you to use it through a web browser plugin. This is not helpful when you’re following a TDD approach.

In this tutorial, we will build a to-do app with Vue.js and Laravel using Pusher to add the realtime functionality. Vue.js is such a great JS framework as it speeds up frontend development and helps achieve more with less code.

In the previous tutorial, we worked on creating an iCal feed using Laravel Lumen. An iCal feed allows users to export a calendar event and view it on an external calendar. In this tutorial, we will take an extra step. Using the Twilio API, we will send SMS reminders to users who subscribed to an event.

Laravel includes ‘Scheduling’ to handle cron jobs. You can easily schedule them from inside Laravel using an expressive and easy to use syntax. The “App\Console\Kernel” class handles all the scheduling in Laravel.

In this episode, we talk to Phil Zaen­gle from Zaen­gle Corp about lever­ag­ing the PHP frame­work Lar­avel to build tru­ly cus­tom web appli­ca­tions. We dis­cuss when a CMS like Craft makes sense, and when it makes sense to uti­lize Lar­avel in addi­tion to or instead of a CMS.

In applications it is often useful to have a way to store some global settings. These settings are not related to a specific model, such as a user, but to the system as a whole.

In this tutorial, I will guide you step by step on How to Deploy Laravel to Digital Ocean so that you can push your local laravel project to the cloud. We will be using Digital Ocean as our clound hosting provider.

If you’re a web developer, chances are you’ve heard about Laravel. I for one use it a lot. Laravel is an open source, model-view-controller framework for PHP — what’s not to like?

You may have noticed the recent fuss about the compromission of event-stream, a popular NPM package. Let's see how many dependencies are in Laravel and Symfony.

When building web apps that interact with a database, I always have two goals in mind: Keep database queries to a minimum. Keep memory usage to a minimum. These goals can have a drastic impact on the performance of your app. Developers are typically pretty good at the first goal.

Built on Laravel.

Before we begin, let’s first talk about Open Graph protocol. The Open Graph protocol enables any web page to become a rich object in a social graph. For instance, this is used on Facebook to allow any web page to have the same functionality as any other object on Facebook.

Hello, I have a few models that have an is_main property - this is a simple boolean. At the moment I have a toggleMain() method which responds from a route /contact/1/toggleMain. This works, however it feels a little amaturish.

Did you know that you can define a $dispatchesEvents property on your Eloquent model and map native Eloquent events to your own event classes? Check this out.

In the previous post, our Laravel 5.7 application connected to Cloud SQL. In this post, we are going to upload an image to Google Cloud Storage from Laravel 5.7 application.

One of Doctrine ORM's key features is the ability to write database queries in DQL, which is a query language for your object model. It means that in your queries, you’ll be using PHP classes’ and fields’ names to fetch or update data. PhpStorm comes with full advanced DQL support.