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LaraAppointments: Laravel 5.4 based system for various small businesses to manage their appointment calendar. It is a demo project for demonstrating what can be generated with QuickAdminPanel tool. LaraAppointments is all generated with QuickAdmin except for custom code for Calendar functionality.

Casual video with my thoughts about two qualities/skills that are typical to senior developers. It's not (only) about years of experience.

In today’s article, I am going to create a chatroom using Laravel 5.4, Pusher and VueJs. Since these tools are popular and almost every developer has heard of them, I will skip the theoretical introductions and discussions and go straight to the fun part.

Laravel’s tinker command allows to run any code you want as if you are inside your Laravel app. But if you want to run a single line of code if can be a bit bothersome. You must start up tinker, type the code, press enter, and quit tinker.

It’s time for our monthly hunt for new open source libraries to use and contribute to! If you’re new to Sourcehunt, it’s our monthly post for promoting open source projects that seem interesting or promising and could use help in terms of Github stars or pull requests.

No seriously! It’s a pivotal moment in web development.

Laravel Dusk brings e2e tests into Laravel and that means a full browser in a separate operating system process running your tests. No more mocks, no more implementation swapping.

On episode 28 of the North Meets South Web Podcast, Jake and I were discussing packages that we always pull into our Laravel projects.

If you missed Part 1, you can view it here. Part 1 covers installing Laravel and setting up Vue.js to search for definitions from the Oxford Dictionary API. It then displays them to the user. Now we want to let the user save their word and a definition.

To install the php dependencies you will need to have composer installed. If you do not have composer installed, you can follow steps to do so here: https://getcomposer.org/download/ If you intend on making changes to the code then you can follow these steps, as the app should run fine without it.

Coming to Laravel 5.5 is two new helper methods named throw_if and throw_unless, and both are designed to make it easier to throw exceptions. Throw if, does exactly as it says. If the first param is a boolean and it’s “true,” then throw an exception.

PHP 7.1 introduced a new syntax for the list() function. I've never really seen too much list() calls in the wild, but it enables you to write some pretty neat stuff. This post is a primer of list() and it's PHP 7.1 short notation, and an overview of some use cases I've been applying them to.

You discover that storing files on your own server is extra load, so not ideal. You open your web browser and do a google search on “efficient ways to store files”. Finally, you decide to use Amazon S3. Since you are a Laravel user, you open config/filesystems.

In this article we’ll learn how create a simple websocket server in Laravel using Ratchet php library but, before we start make sure that the server you’re going to develop on supports the websocket protocol ws and for the secure connection wss protocol should be also available, how to configure

A common Laravel question is “What version do I have” and how can I find this? Laravel offers several ways of answering this question but the easiest is to run the following through the Artisan command line tool: php artisan -V This will return the version currently installed such as: Larav

Two weeks ago, I was faced with a fun little task – changing the way a report was sorted to sort by 6 different data points. Now, one of the best things about SQL is you can do this very easily.

I always used xmapp on windows to test the code i write before running it on a production server which was fine on till I started running into problems with one of my projects which rfine on my PC but not on the production server.

[PODCAST] Twenty Percent Time: Laravel Model Factories (twentypercent.

There are several reasons PHP calendar, booking and events scripts may be an indispensable addition to your website.

We'll start simple and progress our way to professional fully-automated, zero-downtime deployments. We'll install some basics, setup new users, set firewalls, install some security software, and harden server access.