Tools, Large Projects, Bots and Languages

I will show you why I love Bugsnag personally, maybe you will use it too.

Pipelines are a BitBucket feature that allows us to run automated tests on our projects every time we make a Pull Request, or a Commit to a Branch in the project repository. Let's see how we can configure this type of automated testing in a Laravel project using PHPUnit and MySQL.

We all know right now Laravel is the most popular PHP framework. The directory structure is great, well organized, defined and straight-forward. Working in the default project structure provided by Laravel is absolutely fine when we are working in a small or medium sized project.

To get started you must first install the package from composer.

Chatbots is so popular today, growing faster from year by year, many companies now have their own bots. Bots has two type, first type is virtual assistant and second is messaging apps.

This Laravel >=5.4 package provides an easy way to setup mentions for Eloquent models.

Laravel Langman, created by Mohamed Said, is a GUI for managing your JSON language files in a Laravel project. Langman is installed just like any traditional package and after you’ve added the Service Provider, just point your browser to http://project.dev/langman, to open the GUI.

Want to dial your Laravel app, and have it talk back to you? Let’s take a quick look at how to build a really simple IVR (interactive voice response) – a ‘phone menu’ – with Laravel and Nexmo.

Laravel is the most starred PHP Framework on Github, powering over 37,794 websites on the internet. Sadly, a good number of these websites were built by half baked developers  - owning to ease of use of the Laravel framework.

Short casual video about upcoming Laracon EU conference in Amsterdam.

As you may know, VAT is a tax used in European Union countries. It is added to the price of products and services, but the actual percentage of the tax varies from country to country, as well from product to product or service to service.

The greek philosopher Heraclitus already knew that "change is the only constant" and as software developers we know this to be true for much of software development and business requirements. Usually the problems software needs to solve get more complex over time.

Laravel Blade Vue Directive provides a blade directive for vue.js inline components. The Laravel Blade Vue Directive was written to be simple and intuitive to use. It's not opinionated about how you use your vue.js components.

Also add it as alias, so you can use the facade easily in your app. By running php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Appstract\Options\OptionsServiceProvider" in your project all files for this package will be published. For this package, it's only a migration.

Last year on 28th of June Dropbox deprecated v1 of their API. On the same date this year they will turn off all v1 endpoints. If you’re using using Flysystem, Laravel or the official PHP SDK to work with Dropbox, it’s the time to update.

If Taylor Otwell got hit by bus what would happen to laravel? (self.PHP) Sorry for the macabre of the title but I'm really curious about this. Laravel as a project seems to rely to a large extend on a single person.

While developing a small administrative tool to help the company make data changes to 800 different databases, I had little time to come up with a liable solution on how to make master/tenant connections with Laravel. When you Google multi tenancy with Laravel, about 3 packages stand out.

This week we have for you a collection of high-quality PHP libraries that have caught our eye in the last couple of months. We’ve tried our best to include projects that are active, well documented, and will have a realistic shot at finding a place in your developer’s workbelt.

Laralum is an idea that came to our mind when we found no CMS that had the right balance between power and flexibility. This can sometimes be tricky, the whole point of Laralum is to provide a content manager that's ready for developers to use and customize.

I spotted a cool new feature soming in Laravel 5.5, which is going to make working with third-party packages that little bit easier. When publishing third-party resources using php artisan vendor:publish, you will be able to choose which package you would like to publish.

Form Request validation is very simple and elegant way to validate input data coming from the client side. As you already know how to use it, this tutorial is about internal working of FormRequst.

A fluent interface to generate Laravel validation rules. It proxies to the built in Laravel validation rules where possible and also add some sugar such as min, max helpers, as well as a handy when method and character rule. Don't forget you need to call the final get() method.

To begin with, I would rather let the Laravel official site speak about helpers. So, basically, helpers in Laravel are built-in utility functions that you can call from anywhere within your application.

From your console, execute the php artisan tinker command. 2. Use the php artisan tail command-> To see the contents of your application’s log file.

Developing a RESTful API in Laravel, internal quirks require request handling customization to fill in the framework’s gaps. Before getting to the database layer, each codebase needs custom boilerplate for transforming and filtering inputs. Up to version 5.