Laravel Daily #31: Business, Spark and Less-Known Packages

After all those recent Mandrill news the whole web-dev community was shaken up and started looking for alternatives for transactional emails. And actually, there is a whole another way of thinking about it: do we always actually need to send the email?

I decided to start a new side project in form of a YouTube channel where I speak about business side of Laravel.

One of the most common questions in Laravel world is how to organize the routes file, especially for bigger projects. Of course, you can have groups, prefixes and similar things, but today I want to present to you a package by Sebastiaan Luca – called Laravel Router.

There’s so many Laravel packages out there! Around 8500, to be exact. And so many of them unknown to the public, because authors are not shouting about them too loud.

Taylor just released a 12-minute intro and a five-minute configuration screencast for the new version of Spark that will be released next Tuesday.

The total Laravel 5 framework depends on many blocks of Interfaces, classes and other packaged versions that package developers have developed so far. Laravel 5 has happily used them and encourage you to do the same by following the SOLID principle and loose coupling.

As a PHP developer, you may use exceptions, because they allow you to notice when something has gone wrong or the user has acted in an unusual way (such as division by zero). Without exceptions, your application would end up presenting unwanted errors and being much more difficult to debug.

A while back, if I needed dummy data for my local application environment — it involved importing a database partial of an existing site, or modifying MySQL's sakila database, or just some funky way to get data. Laravel gave us seeding (not a new concept).

Command Validator is a package that lets you validate Laravel Console Commands. The rules available come from the default Laravel validation rules but you can add custom ones, just as you would in form validation.

Dries Vints does not blog often, but when he does it’s very much worth your time to read. We all have specific ways of setting up our computer. It’s all different somehow. The apps we use, our IDE settings, what shell we prefer, what programming languages we work with, the tools we prefer.

In this post i want to githubve example of generate dynamic sitemap using "roumen/sitemap" package. sitemap is very usefull for SEO. you can submit your sitemap on google webmaster, bing webmaster etc that way you can increase website rank and web traffic.

Laravel comes with a great authentication and authorization system. As of 5.2 version, it also provides authentication scaffolding for views, routes, and controllers. But yet one feature is missing there – user email verification.

Many applications require a certain level of ongoing monitoring and maintenance beyond the typical code-based improvements.