Laravel Daily #46: FREE e-book, Windows OS, Carbon tips and 5.3

Another side-project from my team and me personally. Lately there’s quite a lot of books about Laravel, as the framework gets more popular. But the thing I’ve missed on the market is a non-technical book about Laravel. So here it is – presenting to you “Laravel for Clients”!

Controversial article, but.. I see quite a lot of PHP developers using Windows operating system. And there’s nothing wrong with that. But if you look closer… Ok, I’ll be honest – I’ve been there myself and I know the difference.

We all use Carbon library to manage date and time, right? But who has actually read full documentation of what functions it has? In addition to well-known ones like now() or format(), Carbon has a lot more useful stuff. Let’s take a look.

Hundreds of developers fought the airline industry to arrive in downtown Louisville for the annual Laravel conference. This year’s event was a sell-out with around 550 developers and had people attending from all over the world. At last count, twenty-four different countries were represented.

The annual Laravel US conference is upon us once again. Everyone is excited about the upcoming release of Laravel 5.3. Taylor Otwell and several Laravel Community members have been tweeting about changes and salient new features for weeks now.

Day Two of the Laravel US Conference consisted of more talks and workshops. Seven speakers took to the stage, and we had the first soft talk of the conference. Check out our recap of Day One to learn about the Laravel 5.

Day Three of Laravel US Conference consisted of talks about design, performance tuning, software estimation, API tools, and Laravel. Seven speakers took to the stage and it was a scintillating experience. Currently, a specific date has still not been set on the release of Laravel 5.3.

The slide deck from Chris Fidao’s Laracon workshop on Server Survival.

Slides from Jack McDade’s talk on Wizards, Lawnmowers, and Hovercrafts!

StreamACon, the company that handled the Laracon live stream, just released the first public video from the conference. This one features Taylor’s talk on new features coming to Laravel 5.3.

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After looking at the improvements coming to authentication, let's now take a look at what's in store for authorization in Laravel 5.3. Note: some of the features discussed below have originaly been introduced in the middle of the 5.2 cycle.

Search tools ElasticSearch and Algolia have gained a lot of popularity in the Laravel community in the last few years as powerful tools for indexing and searching your data. Ben Corlett did a fantastic job introducing ElasticSearch at Laracon Eu 2014, and I wrote a pull request to Laravel.

API authentication can be tricky. OAuth 2 is the reigning ruler of the various standards that you might consider, but it's complex and difficult to implement—even with the great packages available (League and Luca).

What's New in Laravel 5.3: Mailables Laravel 5.3 "mailables" are thin wrappers around the traditional syntax for sending mail. I think you'll find that they're easier to work with, and much easier on the eyes. Let me show you the essential in this episode.Published on Aug.

During the Laracon US 2016 Conference, Taylor Otwell, creator of Laravel, announced that Laravel 5.3 will come with Vue.js support out of the box. That's exciting news for all of us, Laravel Developers who work with Vue.js.

Let’s take a deep look into $loop variable in Laravel 5.3. Its a new features of Laravel 5.3. The $loop  variable is a stdClass  object that provides meta information about the loop you’re currently inside. Take a look at the properties it exposes:

Laravel's pagination library is brilliant, because pagination is a common task that is a surprising amount of work to implement.

So, after you read my first blog post, you can see, that I'm a strong believer in the use of frameworks. But there are so many frameworks out there! So why did I choose Laravel out of all of the possibilities?

We are starting some new projects and I lost hope in Kohana… no one seems to care enough, community is almost lost, not compatible with PHP7 and honestly I do not have the time to maintain it… was a tough decision after many years, but from now on I will not start any new project using Kohana.

This utility to help you create new Laravel models on the fly by just defining the model's schema and table name. After your definition in the corresponding fields, you will get a code snippet to copy and paste in the model and migration files.

This post uses Laravel Version: 5.2.41. Laravel makes returning JSON responses from the API you’re building trivial; you simply return the value from your route or controller action and it will be JSON encoded automatically, ready to be consumed.

Once the LaradumpServiceProvider is registered, the commands will show up when you do a php artisan. Will perform a mysqldump of each table in your database and store it in the storage/dumps folder.

Don’t use LengthAwarePaginator. Use Paginator, aka, simplePaginate. Certainly LengthAwarePaginator makes for more features but its massively slow, even with my best indexes and a r3.large rds scanning 9M+ rows takes more then a second (and I have 35M+).

The question is very simple! How to get model count efficiently?

Build progressive web apps using the new version of Laravel & Angular

you need to add the service provider. Open app/config/app.php, and add a new item to the providers array. Then, add a Facade for more convenient usage. In app/config/app.php add the following line to the aliases array:

Laravel framework became a number one framework in php development it has lot of advantages. Apart from the above features Laravel comes up with Eloquent ORM Powerful Database component, it  is used to handle all database related operations.

Last year I wrote a piece called “a few thoughts about composer and how people use it“. In that post I had a list of things which are problematic about how composer is used. That post got widely recognized, linked an visited, but in general those issues still exist.

PHP, Python, Java, ROR, ASP.Net, ColdFusion, Perl and a lot more languages are available for various kind of web application. But which technology should I choose for my next project ? – is the general question.

The biggest problem in IT projects is that they are not completed on time or within budget. And quite often the blame is on vendors — development agencies or freelancers. But actually the clients have a huge influence on the success of their project. Even if they are not technical at all.

As project managers we need to think about how developers work rather than expecting them to adapt to our mindset. Project management is hard.

When will it be done? Most developers dream of a world in which they could tell their boss, “the feature will be done when we finish it.” It’s not that they’re curmudgeonly (well, they might be – but that’s not the whole story.) It’s because developers are smart.

You can use arrow keys to navigate in the map. The platforms,environments and devices become more and more diverse and complex during the years.

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