5.4 Tutorials, Observers, APIs and Bootforms

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If you've been following Scotch for a while, you heard a lot about Laravel. Some months ago, Laravel 5.3 was released. It introduced new features like Mailables. Yesterday, the 25th of January, Laravel 5.4 was released.

Jacob Bennett: Hey, everyone, welcome to [00:00:30] the inaugural episode of Michael and myself taking on the Laravel News podcast.

Laravel 5.4 introduces two new built-in middleware ConvertEmptyStringsToNull and TrimStrings, the first middleware transforms request parameters with empty string as a value to null, the latter trims the leading and trailing white space from the values of request parameters.

Eloquent query scopes are a great way to add domain-specific language to your models, hiding complexity and encouraging code reuse. Hopefully, this shows simply how scopes work and can make for neat chunks of reusable and adaptable code.

In this post, we are going to dig into REST API building using Laravel 5.4 and Passport OAuth2 server provided by laravel. This is the next part of my post Advance interactive database seeding in Laravel post, we left off at migration and seeding of the database.

Before Laravel 5.3, defining an Artisan console command—something like php artisan sync:dates—required you to create a new class for that command and register it in the Console Kernel.

Most of the Laravel apps we create at Spatie will send mails. This can be a password reset mail, a welcome mail after registration, an order confirmation mail, … One of the things we do is styling such mails so it has the same look and feel as the site it was sent from.

I had a client recently that wanted to track changes made to certain database records and who had made them. He was basically asking for a written history of any record in the specified tables. Laravel makes this absurdly easy with model observers and polymorphic relationships.

The PHP 7.2 RFC for deprecating some current functionality has been approved. The following items are included in this list and will begin throwing deprecated notices: The magic __autoload function has been superseded by spl_autoload_register in PHP 5.1 and its use discouraged in the documentation.

When tables are migrated in Laravel with foreign key checks, MySQL doesn’t allow us to create a foreign key reference to the parent table from the child table without parent table being created.

Apart from our open source work, we do client work at Spatie as well. Over the years we’ve learned that one of the most critical moments of a project is when it is going live.

Perhaps you have completed the courses like PHP with Laravel for beginners — Become a Master in Laravel or Laravel From Scratch. You’ve learned the basics of Laravel. Now what?

Adding email verification process in your laravel 5.3 app step by step. First let’s initiate with an overview so we have an idea what is the actual process we are going to implement followed by the code and the steps.

Anonymous classes were added to PHP 7. This article intends to show how useful they can be for writing tests. In the example above we have written a very dumb implementation. That’s often useful when the mock will not be used or its behavior isn’t important for the use case we are testing.

Install all needed to get the BrowserSync working with gulp and Laravel. You can get all details here: Browser-sync It will show you details about the host and the port. Note the port number.

We have previously looked at the Carbon package by Brian Nesbitt as well as all the functionality it adds to PHP's DateTime class. In this article, we will take a look at how Laravel takes advantage of this package.

This will create tests directory and configuration file codeception.yml. This also prepares 3 suites for testing: acceptance, functional, and unit. You will also need to prepare .env file for testing environment:

When developing applications, it is usually common to see randomness come into play - and as a result, many programming languages have built-in random generation mechanisms. Some common applications include:

Illuminate is Laravel’s database engine minus Laravel. It comes bundled with the Eloquent ORM in Laravel. If you would like to build your PHP apps with ORMs and prefer not to use Laravel, this tutorial is for you.

BootForms builds on top of my more general Form package by adding another layer of abstraction to rapidly generate markup for standard Bootstrap 3 forms. Probably not perfect for your super custom branded ready-for-release apps, but a huge time saver when you are still in the prototyping stage!