Best of 2016, Laravel 5.4 and Eloquent Tips

A little later than most “Year in Review” posts but it took some time to manually pick the most-clicked articles from our newsletter, there were 1000+ useful links from all over the web.

Another “hidden gem” of Eloquent. Let’s imagine that you want to query all rows from the table and also one related row – not all of them, but the newest one. Apparently, it’s pretty easy. Let’s take a real-life example.

From time to time I write short tips about Laravel, and one of the most popular topics is Eloquent. It has so many “hidden” or poorly documented functionality, one of those is filtering parents by whether they have or don’t have children. Let’s see an example.

This week's QuickAdminPanel newsletter with feature updates and useful blog articles.

Version 5.4 of Laravel is now officially released! This release has many new features, and improvements and here is quick video going over some of the highlights: Laravel Dusk is an end-to-end browser testing tool for JavaScript enabled applications.

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Adam Wathan’s BootForms makes it painless to work with Bootstrap forms in your Laravel Blade templates. If you’ve been using BootForms and just upgraded to Laravel 5.4, you might have run into some issues with your views.

Version 5.4 of Laravel is now officially released! This release has many new features, and improvements and here is q…

With the announcement of Laravel Dusk, a browser automation and testing API tool, I noticed a cool chunk of demo code. It represents a realtime app that features user interacting using WebSockets: This inspired me to build an app for which I could use that same exact snippet of code.

A quick look at some of the new features coming to Laravel 5.4

Laravel 5.4 is on the verge of being released, so all of the community’s package maintainers and bloggers are busy getting their ducks in a row.

This article is targeted on Laravel beginners. No skills required whatsoever. Article is a tad opinionated, so take it with a grain of salt. Also, details are omitted for the sake of brevity. Thus I will do the actual comparison as well as give several hints to get started.

In one of my current projects, I needed to be able to broadcast email announcements to all of the users in the system. An Announcement is just some words shouted into a crowd or printed in the newspaper. Words can't print themselves, that doesn't make any sense!

A workbench is a project dedicated for creating all your packages. It has all advantages, like autoloading. I got my information from a clear topic on Laracasts. But I saw the post was older, so I checked if it still works, and wrote about it in this article.

If you want or need to prevent spam from coming through on your website, via contact forms, comment forms or any type of form. Then a captcha is a must have. I created a Laravel package for easily adding Google reCaptcha to your website. Personally, I use Google reCaptcha all the time.

JetBrains has just released PhpStorm 2017.1 EAP build (171.2613) and through the Laravel plugin, it now supports the new Laravel 5.4 components and slots feature. You can read more about this release on their announcement post and download it through their site or from the JetBrains Toolbox App.

Having been playing with Dusk for the last couple of days, I became aware that several people were trying to use it in a slightly different way from my approach. Several people were asking on the testing channel on Slack about how to get it working on Homestead.

Attempting to use whereHas queries with standard Eloquent polymorphic relationships will fail, due to Eloquent being unable to determine the correct model to retrieve. The 'Improved Polymorphic Eloquent Builder' is a class which extends the Eloquent Builder class that is built in to Laravel 5.1.

An exciting (for me anyway) new piece of functionality coming in Laravel 5.4 is Laravel Dusk, providing an expressive, easy-to-use browser automation and testing API. I’ve been working on a new application recently, and was holding off on introducing browser tests until 5.4 got released.

Ever needed to use a queue service not supported by Laravel? No, me neither! However, recently I needed to tweak the config for the SQS driver in order to utilise a couple of the Amazon configuration settings.

Let's discuss something many people have accidentally discovered: you cannot use session data directly in a controller's constructor. This change was introduced in Laravel 5.3, when the middleware pipeline was rewired to make global scopes work with session data.

Created a simple to-do app in Laravel 5.3 using Homestead. This app was done for an engineering internship screening for DoSomething.org.

In this video I explain the theory and demonstrate how to use View Composers to bind data to your views.1 - Introduction - 00:152 - What happens to Cached data - 00:433 - Benefits of Caching - 01:014 - Things to be aware of- 02:135 - The Cache Facade - 03:396 - Brief overview of Memcached - 04:26Rev

Laravel has exploded in popularity. It has become one of the most popular, and widely used PHP frameworks in a short span of time. It's been close to 2 years since I have started using it; and I must confess, Laravel is indeed an elegant framework.

Recently, I have heard a lot about Laravel is closely bounded with Vue.js. Furthermore, its also providing an out of the box configuration for Vue. So, I thought why not test it myself, if its as simple and easy for a beginner, (Laravel & Vue), like me to setup and run Vue on Laravel.

They say that one of the best way to learn (and not forget!) things is to write them. Or write about them. And since I have the memory of a goldfish theses days, I told myself that I should be doing this kind of posts more often.

In this short video tutorial we take a look at how to login with jQuery and Ajax.- twitter.com/SaeedPrez- facebook.com/SaeedPrez

See what packages have changed after you run composer update by comparing composer.lock to the the git HEAD. There are no other dependencies.

I guess we all ran into this problem once in a while: our Vagrant / Homestead machine freezes, gets destroyed and all data is lost.

This package adds a couple of view-related commands to Artisan in your Laravel projects. It is super simple to use and easy to understand for everyone. All contributions (in the form on pull requests, issues and feature-requests) are welcomed. See the contributors page for all contributors.

Whether you are building a website or a full-fledged web application, making it accessible to a wider audience often requires it to be available in different languages and locales. Fundamental differences between most human languages make this anything but easy.

Composer is a dependency manager for PHP created by Nils Adermann, Jordi Boggiano and other community contributors. With Composer, developers could develop code that include components from several libraries and packages.

Artisan is a command line utility that comes with Laravel, one of the most popular PHP frameworks.This utility is extensively used for setting up migrations, routes listings, queueing, class creations, and other related tasks.

With Laravel 5.4 there will be also a new testing tool available called Dusk. Do we really need another testing tool? Yes we do! Let’s see why.The pain point So I guess we are all already at the point where we know that testing is very important.

Okay, so Laravel dusk is pretty amazing. The other day I was making my utility payment online which I encountered my monthly frustration of "Why don't these fools have an autopayment option." If only I could emulate my steps to making to submit my payment.