Multi-file Upload, 5.5 LTS and Must-Have Packages

File upload is one of the most commonly used features in web-projects. And it seems pretty easy – form, submit, validation, store. But it gets a little more complex if you want to allow your users to upload more than one file with one input – let’s see how it’s done in Laravel.

After a really long hiatus, I decided to go back to coding. It was my first and only real love. I had been working about a decade in Data Center and Enterprise Infrastructure. I knew I would go back someday. The desire had been gnawing my heart, until finally I gave in. Enough of that.

We should know what is database seeder in laravel and why we should use before start example of database seeding. Laravel provides a tool to add sample or dummy data to our databases automatically. that is call it database seeding.

Typical internet users connect to lots of different services and web applications. As we come to use more and more of these services, we expect them to integrate with each other for convenience and ease of use.

After (or is it before?) lanching a new site, you often want to validate it against a checklist and make sure the title is filled, gzip is enabled, robots.txt and sitemap.xml are all there etc. kupo is built to help you with this tedious task.

When admins create or update an news item—or any other entity—in our homegrown CMS, a url slug is generated based on it's title. The downside here is that when the title changes, the old url would break.

Nowadays in modern web development, API-based project is popular pattern to create service that can be accessed via mobile or website. Laravel is one of best framework to create API-based project, it offers speed development with a large community around the world.

If you’re not using Swagger (or OpenAPI) yet to document your APIs, you should start. It’s pretty simple to get started - especially in PHP. I recommend using the swagger-php package - it’s pretty easy. Just use annotations, and then generate the Swagger definition when you’re done.

A little known helper function, called tap was added to Laravel 5.3. In this short post I'll explain how this function can be used. Let’s first take a look at the tap function itself. It's actually a very short one.

We find images in almost every application that we use in today’s world. And Laravel being so nice, it supports image uploads out of the box. However, It’s even more fun if we can upload images via ajax and validate.

Version 5.1 was Laravel’s first LTS release and its two-year window of bug fixes are coming to an end this year. There have been a few people questioning if another LTS would be released and version 5.5 would be the next in line if it did happen. Laravel 5.

The Notification system in Laravel 5.3 makes it easy to send a single block of notification content to multiple channels. I ended up using it mainly to send quick action-oriented mails, since I really liked the drop-dead-simple MailMessage builder:

This package contains some useful Artisan commands to work with PHP OPcache. Make sure your APP_URL is set correctly.

Default installation is via Composer. Add the Service Provider to your config/app file in the providers section.

There’s always been a lot of talk about PHP, with a lot of people claiming it’s a “crap” language. It was my first programming language. I know it has some shortcomings — as do all languages — but it’s been my go-to language for server-side operations.

I’ve been using Laravel quite a lot lately. I’ve admitted in my personal blog posts that I was unfamiliar with Laravel and I’ve been using it in earnest to better understand the product and its community.

So you’re a Laravel developer and of course you are using Forge to manage your servers. You enjoy how simple Forge makes it to deploy your applications but you may notice a few seconds of downtime when your app is updating packages etc.

Registering a new custom middleware on Laravel from service provider is too easy. Previously while working on Laravel 5.3 you could register a middleware by calling the middleware function. When you call the above function, Laravel behind the hood calls the Router.

Setting up debugging in an IDE with a local development environment has gotten so easy it can be done in a few automated steps. In this post I will demonstrate how to get step debugging functioning with PhpStorm and Zend Debugger when the server is set up on a local environment.

Contents 1. PDO vs MySQLi vs MySQL 2. Difference to Connect Using MySQLi and PDO 3. PDO vs MySQLi vs MySQL Performance Benchmark 4. PDO vs MysQLi Security using Prepared Statements 5. Comparison between PDO and MySQLi Terms of Usage 6. Converting MySQL Applications to Use PDO or MySQLi 7.

Ran across this Changelog from a long long time ago. Read from the bottom up. I added the PHP Tools lines at the bottom for context. So many early decisions made on a whim still affecting us today. And then there are things like "Removed **, // and %% operators" which did a vector dot-product and its inverse, I think. I seem to recall deleting it when I tried to document it.

Starting at v5.4.12, Laravel Collections now includes a when method that allows you to perform conditional actions on the items without breaking the chain.