Blog Packages, Admin Scripts and Plenty of Tips

I will be honest: this article was planned as “Review of Blog Packages for Laravel”. But after starting the research, I realized that there’s not much to choose from! Still, let’s look into some details and try to get an overview of this niche.

Usually when we think about web-projects, we mean websites that consist of front-end view and back-end adminpanel. But there are other types of projects – I call them web-applications. They are more like data management software, just in a browser instead of a Windows/Mac.

Some Laravel functions are not mentioned or emphasized in the official docs, especially if they change from version to version. One of these examples is simple where() in Eloquent – what do you think, does it compare in a “strict” or “loose” way?

Artisan Tinker is a nice way to quickly check some commands without making changes the code. You launch artisan tinker and can do things like database queries, check if some functions are working etc. But there’s one thing to keep in mind.

When working with Laravel, you have to use your CLI tool pretty much. I found I was running long commands several times, so I made some handy aliases for them, to quickly run long commands with small abbreviations. The CLI tool I use is iTerm with Oh My Zsh.

Your journey to build a Laravel Survey App begins from here. Relax and enjoy! Hello, everyone.

On the taxi, I checked the Github for laravel. We can actually set the folder of view files in config/view.php, just change below code: I am wondering why it’s plural form of `path`. So I need to dig into the code. First, a global search for `config(‘view.paths’)` result in nothing.

At the time of writing, Laravel Valet ships with PHP 7.1 but if you're like me, you have some legacy projects around the place that haven't quite lifted their dependencies to PHP 7 just yet. Luckily, the combination of Valet and brew on macOS makes switching PHP versions really easy.

Convincing yourself to skip writing tests is easy when your testing workflow is slow and painful. Here's some tools and tricks I use to make sure testing doesn't slow me down.

Laravel's login throttling is a valuable combatant against dictionary attacks. Login throttling hinders and impedes potential dictionary attacks, however, it doesn't prevent them entirely, an attacker could wait for one minute and try again.

Laravel 5.4 is scheduled to be released next week, and it already includes many great new features, but the team was able to sneak in two new Middleware offerings. These are TrimStrings and ConvertEmptyStringsToNull.

And YES, here is my list that I think it gathers almost every Twitter account that shares news/articles/tips about Laravel. I try everyday to update it, and to be honest I learn a lot from every day since I’m an active user in Twitter, I just try to make use of that ‘Free time’ I have.

If you are an entrepreneur looking to build the next big tech empire, you have likely asked the question — can I build this in Wordpress or should I use a php framework like Laravel?

This article was peer reviewed by Younes Rafie and Wern Ancheta. Thanks to all of SitePoint’s peer reviewers for making SitePoint content the best it can be!

Laravel has a migrate:refresh command to rollback and rerun every migration in your application. It also supports specifying a specific number of migrations to rollback with its step option, which takes an integer.

The release of version 5.4 of the Laravel Framework is expected to be released in the next few weeks. Some exiting new features, enhancements and changes are coming! Here's a short overview of what to expect. The release of Laravel 5.5 is expected in July and will require PHP 7.0 or higher.

It has been roughly six months since we released Laravel-Mediable, our first open source Laravel package. Developing this project has been a truly fulfilling experience.

Install optimus/heimdal to get an extensive exception handler for your Laravel API with Sentry integration. Error handling is often an overlooked element of development, unfortunately. Luckily, this article will take you through the basics of API error handling.

In this tutorial, we'll show you how to create "Did you mean" functionality fast and easy. Data we'll use will be a large city database consisting of more than 3 million cities. The idea is to show the correct city name in case your users misspell them.

Twitter provides a streaming API with which you can do interesting things such as listen for tweets that contain specific strings or actions a user might take (e.g. liking a tweet, following someone,…). In this post you’ll learn an easy way to work with that API.

We are thrilled to announce that our fifth anniversary of Laracon EU takes place on August 28–30th in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

This module makes easier to filter all incoming requests in Laravel 5 applications. For example, let's assume you want to trim all incoming data or maybe add some extra fields that don't come from external input - this all you can do with a few steps to work in your whole application.

Laravel is one of a popular PHP framework out there. Laravel also happened to use REST paradigm by nature. Today, I’m going to write a story about creating a simple transformer in Laravel. This story assumes you already know the basic of Laravel.

Using a unique colour for each variable in scope arguably improves code readability. This particular feature has been made it into PhpStorm 2016.3 so you can give it a try.

This article was peer reviewed by Younes Rafie and Wern Ancheta. Thanks to all of SitePoint’s peer reviewers for making SitePoint content the best it can be! Authentication is something that has evolved over the years.

This is part 2 of 2 in which we’ll cover how to run a Laravel application in production mode with Docker. Feel free to catch up on Part 1 before diving into this.

This week I was working on a project that requires to upgrade a Wordpress-based system to a Laravel 5.3 based one. The Wordpress platform has already a huge number of users that should maintain their login credentials on the new Laravel system.

If you are using PHPStorm and want to get the most out of your tool you should use keyboard shortcuts. I use this all the time. It opens a window with your last used files. If I have to switch between to Files its just CMD + E followed by RETURN. This saves a lot of time.

The internet has become indispensable and the revenue source for a lot of people. It’s not acceptable for most web apps to be down even for a few seconds.

I just recently joined a new open source project, and there were a few folks on the team who weren't familiar with how to contribute to an open source project by forking your own copy, so I wrote this up for the docs of that project. I figured I'd also share it here.

Tuxedo is an easy way to send transactional emails with Laravel's Mail classes, with the templates already done for you. There are currently 3 different types of classes you can extend. ActionMailable, AlertMailable, and InvoiceMailable, and each have their own special properties and methods.

Now that we got that out of the way, I'll explain a bit. This 2 websites (not limited) share the same code. The data they hold is country specific, but we need  keep some tables shared for both of them, as we can see in the diagram above.