Two Interviews, PHP Blogs and New Packages

There are more and more applications built on Laravel, part of them use Laravel Spark as their base. So I decided to interview the owner of such project.

Another interesting interview on our blog, at the same time presenting you a new tool – EyeWitness.io is a monitoring and application analytics tool, built specifically for Laravel.

Our usual 2-week newsletter, not sure if you followed our public Trello board, but we've been pretty busy, with two new functions launched just yesterday.

A Laravel package to easily generate CSV files from Eloquent model

This article is the concluding part of the series on React App With Laravel RESTful API Endpoint. Sorry for the delay of this much awaited post. In the previous article, I set up the react app with the Home Users and Articles pages.

Laravel Gate has an elegant mechanism to ensure users are authorized to perform actions on resources. Before version 5.1, developers used ACL packages such as Entrust or Sentinel along with middlewares for authorization.

When providing API Service, sometimes we need to set multiple language for handling response. For example, for servicing mobile apps that has multi language support, user needs to get proper active language message in their app.

Hi there! Still on our trivia Messenger bot. If you’re just joining in, why not catch up with our setup and how we implemented the bot’s basic functionality first? Today, we’ll be updating our bot to make use of some of the features the Messenger platform.

This package allows you to import data from another database locally. Make sure you have created a new database connection for your temporary database (from where you want to import the data) and it contains the required data.

This trick saves me having to cast all my foreign keys so they are always cast, usings Eloquents built in casting mechanisms, to an integer.

In my last blog post, I talked about how we test our Laravel applications. In this post, I’d like to expand on how we’ve set things up for Continuous Integration using a service called Codeship. First of all, let me define the term.

Earlier this year, I made an arguably bad business decision. I decided to rewrite the Laravel application powering Boxzilla in Go. No regrets though.

He asked me to generate 1000 coupon codes! It would pretty sure took days to accomplish using photoshop *_* Next, time to put some real coding here. Find the handle() function and add some serious codes ^_^ :

Hi, how are you I’m fine thanks! How are you? I saw you released another package last week. Yup yup, you mean laravel-html, right? It was actually coded up by my colleague Sebastian, who did an awesome job.

Recently I was working on a new project, where I had to stream stock data and display it on a chart. My first instinct was to setup a loop using setTimeout, but I quickly realized that wouldn’t work for my exact needs. Stock prices change so frequently, often happening several times a second.

So, do you have a JSON data type column in your MySQL database and you're using Laravel framework? Well, this tutorial might help you manage your JSON column in more easy way. Next, let's use the trait in the model that has a JSON column in it. In this case let's use it in the User model:

In Laravel 5.5 it will be possible to define a report method on any custom exception. Laravel will look for the existence of the report method on any exception that it catches in the Illuminate\Foundation\Exceptions\Handler class.

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Opus is a place for your team to document who you are, what you do and how you do it. It helps you create and maintain a knowledge base for your teams.

Note: If you are a Medium user, my new articles are now cross-posted there as well. Note: Symfony 4.0 will be released at the end of November 2017. During the next few weeks, I will publish articles about my ideas and the main changes I want to implement for Symfony 4.

Recently I needed to replace Eloquent's default auto-increment numeric ID with a UUID on a few of my models. This can be done in several ways, but after a good chat with the great people in the #Laravel channel on PHPNL's Slack team, I decided to use Laravel's Observers.

The Best PHP blogs from thousands of top PHP blogs in our index using search and social metrics. Data will be refreshed once a week.

In the previous post, we saw how to add the follow functionality to a Laravel app. We also looked at how to configure our app to use Stream. This part will focus on: When using Stream, models are stored in feeds as activities.

Laravel is a PHP framework for modern web apps. It ships with built-in support for database migrations, object-relational mapping, routing, and authentication, making it easier for developers to start and maintain their work.

Laravel is by far the most popular PHP framework in 2017. Developing web applications has never been this much easy. Package in Laravel saves a lot of time while developing complex applications.

You’ve created a new Laravel app for your client and deployed it on the production server. Everything was working fine till a customer has a problem with the app because of some buggy code.

In the PHP ecosystem we’re blessed with so many people blogging about their favourite language. Everyday new interesting content on PHP gets posted somewhere on the web. Visiting each blog separately to see if new content has been posted is quite tedious.

In this blog post I will show you an easy example about how to create a simple Laravel 5 Command-Line program to be executed regularly by particular time interval or specified time.

You’ve created a new Laravel app for your client and deployed it on the production server. Everything was worki…

It's hard to remember shortcuts when there are a large number of options. A more efficient way is to take advantage of PhpStorm's Insert Live Template shortcut. Type as few or as many letters as you want and press Cmd + J. Then continue typing to filter the options.