Laravel Daily #64: QuickAdmin News, PHP 7.1 and "The Right Way"

A newsletter issue sent this week to the QuickAdmin users. This week we have HUGE amount of news for you, but will try to be as brief as possible.

Recently quite a lot of web-projects started with tutorials and courses on Laravel. On of them is Laravelista, created by Mario Bašić. We decided to talk to the author and ask more details about the project and how’s it going. 1. Laravelista is a place for Laravel courses.

Quick tip for you guys. What if in your project users can login not only with email but also with some other field, like “username” or “user_id” or whatever? By default Laravel allows only one field like ’email’. That’s actually easy to change.

Quite an often situation in real-life projects that you have to order lists by a certain condition. For example, countries/cities in alphabetical order everywhere.

Interview: 5 questions for Matt Stauffer: What developer happiness means for Laravel users, new features for realtime apps, commonalities with VueJS, and trying out new communities.

Learn laravel 5.3 AngularJS step by step for beginners : This will show you how to Create Simple Laravel 5.3 CRUD Application with AngularJS backend (REST API) and Laravel 5.3 for the Frontend.

As Laravel 5.4 development continues, two new improvements are coming to your routes, better route caching for large applications and fluently registering routes.

Laravel throws an exception when the CSRF token in the form does not match the token saved in the session of a user for increased security and to prevent users to submit any data from remote servers to your website.

This is a repository for a forum app, built with Laravel 5.3 and Vue 2.

GO PHP 7.1! Today we’re releasing Homestead 4.0 and an updated box version 1.0.0 for VMware and Virtualbox. Homestead 4.0 requires box version 1.0.0 or higher since we are making the jump from PHP 7.0 to PHP 7.1.

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For Laravel 5.2+ multi-auth in the FormRequest, you can avoid having to remember which guard to pass into its user() method. Declare a base class and override that method to discover the guard based on which route was requested.

Back in 2013, Taylor announced Laravel’s official release cycle where each year includes two releases. The first in June and the second in December.

Although it would be nice if we never had to deal with timezones, as developers it’s usually necessary to convert dates and times into a local timezone for each of your users. Here are some tips and tricks when dealing with timezones in your PHP / MySQL apps.

As in earlier reports on other languages (see Ruby, Node.js, Python), today we’re sharing data from Semaphore about usage distribution across versions of PHP in active private projects. More than 80% of commercial PHP projects are on 5.x, with 5.

The PHP development team announces the immediate availability of PHP 7.1.0. This release is the first point release in the 7.x series.

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I’m in the process of starting a new project here at Mentally Friendly where our de facto back-end framework is Laravel. Laravel recently adopted Vue.js as their standard front-end JS framework.

I know that a series on Composer might seem odd. But, as Composer’s been a part of PHP for so long now, I feel that it’s something which most of us take for granted. It’s revolutionised the PHP landscape, making it easier than ever before to build great software in PHP.

We have all been there: CONFLICT (content): Merge conflict in composer.lock Automatic merge failed; fix conflicts and then commit the result. Don’t panic, breathe, let’s walk through this. Since I joined Usabilla, I have been working once more in a large team.