Laravel Daily #56: Packages, PhpStorm, Auth and Laracon videos

Let’s continue our monthly tradition of reviewing new and useful Laravel packages. To be honest, not all of them are new, but found by me only recently. As usual, here are the slides with links to the packages below.

If you work with AngularJS and Laravel project, you might come across a conflict of the same syntax – both Angular and Blade use {{ }} brackets for variables. How to avoid errors? Actually, there’s more than one option here. Did you know that you can change default Blade tags? It’s simple:

Authentication with third party providers like google, facebook, twitter etc. is very common functionality in every web application. For achieve this in core php little bit difficult. But laravel makes it’s simple. Because laravel provides  Socialite package to do simple.

Thanks to the $fillable array, which defines a white list of fields that can be filled through mass assignment, this method call will throw a mass assignment exception. It is also possible to do the opposite and define a blacklist with the $guarded property.

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Validating requests in Laravel is simple with its ValidatesRequests trait that is automatically included through the BaseController. It’s powerful and provides a lot of useful rules for common use cases.

Chrome extension to show Laravel change logs

For several different clients we needed to display a schedule of opening hours on their websites. They also wanted to display if a department / store / … is open on the moment you visit the site.

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.

In a vanilla Laravel installation you can use language files to localize your app. The Laravel documentation refers to any string in a language file as a language line. You can fetch the value of any language line easily with Laravel’s handy trans-function.

There are countless tutorials available online explaining how to apply the Repository Pattern in your Laravel application, and you may, unfortunately, even see the pattern referenced as a ‘Laravel best practice’.

I like when my story/tutorial is backed up with genuine examples from real projects. So for this one I will use Codingo Tuts site as foundation, and I will show you some pieces of code that were or are still active on the site.

I’ve been deep in the trenches of web development lately.  I decided that if software is in my future I ought to understand web development.

In this quick screencast, I cover three different strategies you can use to test events in your Laravel applications.

Today, I am going to tell you how to building and apply new custom paginator view in Laravel 5.3. Laravel 5.3 added new features and update for easily implement your own manual pagination blade template. By Default Laravel 5.3 provide us very simple bootstrap pagination view.

Videos from Laracon EU 2016

New in Laravel 5.3.17 is an improvement to Model Factories that you allow to define different “states” for a factory. The full Laravel changelog is available in the GitHub repo.

This is the third part of our series about last features in PHP 7.1. See ‘Upcoming features in PHP 7.1 (part a)‘ and ‘More upcoming features in PHP 7.1 (part b)‘. PHP 7.1 is now RC1 since our last article, so better dive into the code fast.

An important part of every Laravel developer's debugging arsenal is the humble dd() helper function—"dump and die"—to output the contents of a variable and terminate execution of your code.

Git has a strong commitment to backwards compatibility: many powerful features are hidden behind options rather than exposed as default behaviour. Fortunately Git also supports aliases, so you can create your own commands that do all manner of Git magic.