Laravel Daily #50: Laravel vs WP/Symfony, Deployments and Other Tips

In this chapter of my e-book let’s take on the “holy war” between frameworks. I’m not kidding here – developers actually fight (verbally only, I hope) with each other about what framework to use. So, in general, there’s not much difference, actually.

My thoughts on the choice - if a client wants to use WordPress but you "feel" it should be a custom project with Laravel? How do you convince them?

There is a new interesting project on the market – a map of developers. Started as a Laramap by Florian Wartner, now it became a broader project, presenting to you PHPMap.co!

Laravel is one of my favorite frameworks, not because it is the best but it provides far better developer experience compared to any other frameworks. Laravel 5.3 comes with a handful of new features like Passport, Scout, Notifications, etc. that will make our life even easier.

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This packages just removed about half a day of setting up the backend CRUD per. Model / Entity. A few commands, follow the instructions and then boom, you’ve got a fully functional repository class.

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.

Simple Regex Language is a new PHP package that aims to simplify regular expressions using a cleaner written word approach to the syntax. Here is an example of validating an email address: You can find more details on the SRL and find all the code on GitHub.

In a Laravel app most sensitive configuration values, like a db password, are being saved in an .env file. This file usually does not get committed in a git repo. In this way you can share the repo with collaborators without having them to know the sensitive values of your production environment.

A video highlighting memories of an amazing gathering in 2016. Visit http://laracon.eu/2016 to learn more about Laracon EU.

After attending Laracon 2016 this past week and hearing Adam Wathan's talk on TDD (Test Driven Development), where he used a package his company had developed and open-sourced, called "MailThief", I couldn't help but recall how much of a pain it was to test email.

Back in laravel 5.2, a developer was able to interact with the session directly in a controller constructor. However, this has changed in laravel 5.3. By default the global middleware only contains a check for maintenance mode, the route middleware is what you assign to a route in your routes.

In this video I show you how to you can the PHP Library, Faker, with Laravel. First I explain what Faker is and then I demonstrate how to use it.Reval GovenderLinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/reval-gove...Twitter: https://twitter.com/RevalGovenderMy site: http://revgov.co.uk/1. Prerequisite - 00

Exceptions are a very important method for controlling the execution flow of an application. When an application request diverges from the happy path, it’s often important that you halt execution immediately and take another course of action.

If you want to execute scheduling jobs in specific time and specific interval then you can apply cron job which is a Unix command. We can manage a task in the server that executes scripts which helps in sending daily/weekly reports from our website.

Generate your model,views,controller and migrations just in a few clicks. Views support Bootstrap and Materializecss.

After 2 weeks of struggling I'm ready to give up on Laravel/Spark. All of the advice I'm reading is telling me to stay away from WordPress. I need help and suggestions please! (self.webdev)

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We’ve covered Laravel Shift before and it’s a commercial project that will take a Laravel app and automatically upgrade it or shift it to the next version. This site was running Laravel 5.2 and now that 5.3 is released it was time to upgrade and I decided to give Laravel Shift a try.

Home Automation System Architecture, Communication and Server using PHP Laravel and Websocket for communication.

Every two weeks I send out a newsletter containing lots of interesting stuff for the modern PHP developer. You can expect quick tips, links to interesting tutorials, opinions and packages.

Laravel 5.3 has just been released and there are a ton of great new features. One of the major improvements is in how you send mail in your applications. Let's take a look at sending emails. Before Laravel 5.3, sending emails in Laravel looked a lot like this.

The number of migrations in any sized project can quickly become huge, and although they are ordered, having one big list can sometimes be inconvenient and slow to navigate. This package will put your migrations in yyyy/mm folders e.g.

In MVC based architectures, working with template engines is an inevitable part of the development routine. It usually goes like this: we prepare and pass the data to the view. In the view, we print them based on our layout design. Here is a basic example of how it works using Twig.

If you browse the log of any random git repository, you will probably find its commit messages are more or less a mess. For example, take a look at from my early days committing to Spring: Which would you rather read?

Let’s try to answer this without doing any guessing about how big stories are or how long they will take, which I’ve never been super comfortable doing. Instead we’ll look at historical data and generate a reasonable and quick forecast.

I’m not the most talented coder in the world. No, it’s true. So I try to write as little code as possible. The less I write, the less there is to break, justify, or maintain. I’m also lazy, so it’s all gravy. (ed: maybe run with a food analogy?)

As a developer, I often encounter situations where I have to do quite some work because other developers left rocks in my way in the form of bad code. Over the years, I have learned to deal with this using a simple algorithm:

People have to do their own job.