Laravel Daily #67: Laracasts Forum, LaraQuiz and Inspiration

There are words and phrases you totally don’t want to hear or read during your web-project creation process. I’ve decided to take the most painful ones and make a list – would you recognize any of these happened to you?

In recent years, Laracasts has become a no.1 resource for learning Laravel. Also, there’s a really active discussion forum on the website, so we decided to chat with one of the most active members there. Bobby Bouwmann has almost 1000 “Best Reply” awards on the forum, which is a huge number.

A few weeks ago our team launched a new mini-project called LaraQuiz – for those who want to test their Laravel knowledge. Partly it was a showcase what can be generated with our QuickAdmin. Today we decided to put all the code on GitHub – feel free to create your own quiz sites.

Let’s imagine a simple situation – you need to write an Eloquent query and order the result by the difference of two columns. Or some other calculation. Time to apply a raw query! Now, what if we need to order by the difference between updated_at and created_at? It looks like this:

Web-development is not all serious – there are some fun activities too. So let’s have a break from mega-urgent code writing and get some inspiration. From our beloved Artisan – with a command “inspire”.

In my last post we created a Laravel 5.3 application and added authentication. In this tutorial we are going to add Google Maps API typeahead functionality for selecting addresses. In this app, we want users to be able to see places as they type.

Join us for a quick introduction on how and why to use Laravel’s Vagrant environment Homestead! No experience and no framework knowledge required!

Sublime Text is a great editor. It’s lightweight, fast, and extremely customizable. However, one downside to it compared to a full blown IDE is it doesn’t come with support for running your PHPUnit tests directly from the test class you are working with.

In this tutorial we are going to generate an authentication system to register and log users in using Laravel 5.3. We will use a SQLite database for persistence in our application. You must have Laravel 5.3 installed. Laravel depends on PHP >= 5.4, MySQL, Composer and a few PHP extensions.

Over the previous few years I’ve been involved in many development interviews; mainly as the interviewer but occasionally as the interviewee. Alongside this, through the wider PHP Community, I’ve heard some real disaster stories when it comes to poor interviews.

When you write end-to-end tests, Laravel provides a set of useful helper methods which make it easy to click a link, fill an input field, or submit a form. Under the hood, Laravel uses the Symfony BrowserKit component to simulate the behavior of the web browser.

Writing clean and readable code is essential. Having a properly defined code style, and adhering to that, is tedious work. Let's automate it as much as possible. Laravel uses the PSR-1 and PSR-2 code style standards. These conventions define things like:

When dealing with time consuming resource intensive tasks, most PHP developers are tempted to choose the “quick hack route.” Don’t deny it! We’ve all used ini_set('max_execution_time', HUGE_INT); before, but it doesn’t have to be this way.

Today I’m going to show you one of the, let us say, not well known features of Eloquent models. about appending values that do not exist in the corresponding table of the model. Yesterday I was playing a little bit about Laravel and VueJs, a simple loop over a model using VueJs’s directive.

Hello readers, am back with another tutorial, here we will see how to use cryptography — cryptographic functions like encryption,decryption for handling and managing sensitive data and hashing algorithms for storing and handling passwords in laravel applications.

Some time ago I read an excellent article by Scott Helme on security headers. If you want to learn more about these headers I suggest you read the article yourself. I've added security headers to this website and want to show you how it was done.

Laravel Elixir first came out in October of 2014 and aimed to make automating concatenation, and general file watching easier than setting it up manually. Built on top of Gulp as a wrapper to remove all the difficult parts it has been a popular addition to Laravel.

This article was peer reviewed by Christopher Vundi and Christopher Pitt. Thanks to all of SitePoint’s peer reviewers for making SitePoint content the best it can be! Now, let’s neglect the core application and try to implement this single module to see what we can achieve here.

Today’s guest blog post was written by Isaac Castillo. Isaac is the founder of Echo Design Solutions, a San Antonio-based WordPress and WooCommerce development company. For the past year, Isaac has been using Laravel Homestead as a development environment for his WordPress projects.

In Laravel 5.3, it's easier than ever to write and use Vue components out of the box. This means 5.3 has a somewhat more opinionated default frontend stack than previous versions do. But never fear—it's easy to strip out the default components. Let's explore 5.3's JavaScript stack together.

For a project which has to deal with prices, we decided to use the PHP Money library. It is an implementation of Fowler's Money pattern and has great features and no dependencies. Most important, you shouldn't represent (and store) monetary values by a float.

I was recently building a small company's website, and ran into a problem with Laravel's slug generation problem that affects non-Germanic languages, like Hungarian and Turkish.