Laravel Trends, AJAX Upload and New PhpStorm

Let's get a little philosophical - how much of our time goes to actually writing new code? And would you agree that whole development market is shifting? Listen to my thoughts and comment.

Mini-research of what kind of projects and languages/technologies are popular on job board like Upwork. 200 job offers analyzed, here are the results and takeaways.

I'm writing and creating a lot of content around Laravel, so here are four reasons why you should do it, too.

File uploads is one of the most important functions on the internet, and we have bigger files nowadays, which means it’s not enough to have simple input fields – we need AJAX and processing file upload “in the background”. Here I will show you a simple example of that in Laravel 5.

This article is an explanation of how module User logs works in our QuickAdminPanel, but you can use this logic without our tool. Basically, we want to log any change to any model’s data into a separate database table called user_actions. Now, how it actually works?

Calendars are one of the most common functionality of data management systems. Let’s create a simple calendar of tasks with Laravel. It will be really simple – with a help of FullCalendar library and, optionally, our own QuickAdminPanel. So, we have a fresh Laravel 5.

Websites nowadays are needed to support multi-lingual, in order to reach more people in many countries. Along with fast growth of technologies, we have a lot of framework equipped with packages.

Now let’s provide a Many to Many relationship between User and Role models. Almost done! Don’t give up! ^^ Let’s run the migrations with the seed parameter:

A topic that can easily make anyone's mind wobble. Here I try to make them stick in to your mind (and maybe mine) by explaining them in the simplest way possible. Want to learn something new? Visit Hugobots where I teach people

It would be wrong to call any PHP framework the best one, because different frameworks have various advantages. Usually, a PHP developer chooses a particular framework in accordance with the requirements defined in the project. But trust me, I picked up Laravel and I totally love it now.

This blog post was written under the Pusher Guest Writer program. A realtime counter allows us to show the current active users without reloading the page. This paves a way to have better collaboration and brings dynamic feel to the application interface and a better usability.

Monitoring and application analytics. Built specifically for Laravel. Know how your applications are actually performing. Monitor your queues, schedulers/cron, email, logs, security, SSL, DNS and much more. Dead simple installation - be up and running in just 90 seconds...

Laravel Model UUIDs v1.0.0 Introduction I find myself using UUID across multiple projects of late, and packaged up this functionality rather than copying and pasting it from project to project. Note: this package explicitly does not disable auto-incrementing on your Eloquent models.

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.

This is the official announcement of the new book that I am creating. I'm working on a book that will contain all the tutorials from this website that were published in the first year of Laravelista.

Maintaining open source software is no small task. Your generous contribution goes a long way.

Today, I will demonstrate how you can use Queue in Laravel 5.4 for email verification by using integrated auth RegisterController. In addition, I will also show you how to add the email sending process to a queue to make your app processes faster.

Push notification is the process of delivering information from the back end application to end user’s mobile device without any request from the end user. We can send the push notifications from Laravel application using AWS SNS service easily.

When you are building custom HTML email templates, it’s typically a chore to test them across all the email clients, and testing them over and over. There are a few tools like Litmus which help solve this problem, but the service is expensive.

The package related documentation for Laravel covers the basics on how to include Laravel spesific assets in your package but it does not really provide information on how to get started. So maybe you have noticed a common functionality in separate Laravel projects that could be shared between them.

Web hosting is something that many agencies and freelancers don’t give a whole lot of thought to. They just use whomever they’ve had a long-standing relationship with, and call it a day. However, choosing the right host—and the right type of host—can be crucial to the success of a project.

Last week our team released a new package called laravel-db-snapshots. It provides a few artisan commands to quickly dump and load a database. We’ve built this for is to help us develop features in an app that require the database to be in a specific state.

Now Docker can be added as a remote PHP interpreter in PhpStorm. It’s easier than ever to set up the development environment with Docker and start PHP Scripts, PHPUnit, Behat, PhpSpec tests, PHP CodeSniffer or PHP Mess Detector inside Docker containers. PhpStorm 2016.3 adds support for PHPSpec.

Background Many Laravel developers would be familiar with the helpful only method found on the request object, which allows you to specify keys to pluck from the request: public function create() { $post = Post::create(request()->only('title', 'slug', 'excerpt', 'body', 'published_at'));

If validation rules that come with Laravel are not enough for you, then you can create your own validation rules. How awesome is that! This is a tutorial that I wanted to write for a very long time.

Another cool feature shipped with the release of Laravel 5.4 is the ability to use Facades on the fly. Automatic Facades with the HighOrders Collections are my most favorite features of this release!

My consulting clients often ask whether it is worth porting their web application to Amazon Web Services. They are expecting better performance and reliability because AWS sounds more professional, but they’ve also heard stories of horrifying AWS bills, even though they’re not sure why.

You can use Laravel Homestead globally or per project for local development. Follow the Installation Guide. If you want you can edit database name, database username and database password.

When I first began kicking the tires on Vue, I was quickly frustrated by my lack of understanding of how data is transferred between Laravel and Vue. I was comfortable with the way Laravel retrieved and stored data, but I couldn't figure out how to make Vue aware of Laravel's data!

Repository contains a list of design patterns implemented in php. All examples was given from "Design Patterns" book. GPLv3. See LICENSE file.

The Laravel team has just created a new Medium publication where you can see all of the official releases and update announcements across all of the Laravel projects and products.

This guide will help you to transform from good Laravel developer to noob. It is quite easy, you just need to do the easiest thing possible in short-term. This way you will need to write more code, it will have more bugs and will be harder to understand.

Today Stack Overflow released the results of their 2017 survey of more than 64,000 developers. Just like in 2016, I’ve combed through these results and summarized them for you.

For websites with advanced ACL functionality, developers often find themselves manually logging in as a different user, then switching back to their own account. This can prove to be a tedious process, especially when trying to debug a problem.

PhpStorm just released version 2017.1 and it includes many improvements including support for Codeception, PhpUnit 6.0, and more PHP 7.x features. Beyond these, it also adds support for @includeWhen, @component and @slot directives and PHPDoc through Blade injections.

PHP is one of the most popular scripting languages on the web today. According to W3Techs, PHP is used by over 82% of all the websites who use a server-side programming language. This means for every 8 out of 10 websites you visit, they are most likely utilizing PHP in some form or another.

I've named this project PHPUnicorn (by combining "PHPUnit" with "Unicorn pHAT"). Put the header between the Pi and Unicorn pHAT and solder it into place.