Laravel vs Symfony, Vue, TDD and External Tools

Laravel is full of little tricks, and quick ways to generate code with Artisan. One of the recent ones I’ve found is when you’re creating a CRUD record and need to create Model + Controller. You don’t need two separate commands for that. And that’s it.

Recently I’ve encountered a situation and want to share a quick solution with you guys. Laravel has quite an awesome feature of Mutators – you can define extra fields in your Eloquent models that are dynamically calculated. But orderBy doesn’t work with them, so what can we do?

If you’d like to start from the beginning, please go back to Part 1 – which covers installing Laravel, connecting to the Oxford Dictionary API, and displaying the results to the user.

Server-side rendering is all the rage right now. But it’s not without its downsides. Pre-rendering is an alternative approach that may even be better in some circumstances. In this article we’ll explore how pre-rendering works with Vue.js and look at two examples; one with a Node.

Even today, PHP developers face the tough question of which framework to choose for their next project. The choice has largely been restricted to a handful of frameworks, out of which Laravel and Symfony stand out of the competition.

As we know, we create new record in table using model then created_at and updated_at column value automatic set current timestamps. But sometime you require to prevent set timestamp of created_at and updated_at column, Maybe you don't have. So in this post we will learn how to make disabled timestamps value from model.

All the configuration in this micro-tut will happen in the Run/Debug Configurations Dialog. In your toolbar menu (illustrated below) click on run then Edit Configurations. Once the dialog opens you want to click the green plus icon to create a project specific configuration.

TL;DR Use bootNameOfTrait() instead of boot() in a model trait to avoid being overwritten by the base model’s boot() method. Let’s explore this feature through a simple example.

Laravel 5.4.24 is now released and available for all. This release adds support for magic controller methods, a Request::routeIs() method and more. Check the full change log below and run composer update to get the latest version.

It appears that Laravel is nowadays one of the most frequently used PHP frameworks. The numbers confirm that: over 65k followers on Twitter, 30k stars and 10k forks on GitHub. With this article you will learn how to create a Continuous Delivery pipeline for an application built thanks to Laravel.

So, Laragon 3.0 was released, it has all the services in 64-bit by default and other shinny new changes. The news was on and oh yea! I want one. In a jiffy, I downloaded the distributions for wamp, nodejs and java. I did not read the release notes or any migration guide.

Last time, I wrote an article to get your feet wet on Test Driven Development (TDD). You may refer to this post: Simple TDD in Laravel with 11 steps Today, let us refactor what we have accomplished on that post to make it more manageable. We will use the REPOSITORY pattern.

When you work with Laravel and need to take care of the actual launch of the web application there tend to be two things you need to take care of. You need to set up the server or provision it as they call it. Two, you need to set up a deployment system to update it.

In order to progressively enhance my Laravel templates I have been using Vue.js. One problem that I was grappling with is that one of my components was actually behaving more like an application and needs a load of startup data.

Orchid PHP is an application that allows you to quickly write simple but powerful websites and applications. The main emphasis is on rapid prototyping and different content. That's all.

Most web developers cringe when they hear of TDD (test driven development). Well, I did when I was asked to program with TDD first. When you are starting off, it feels overwhelming. If you resist it, it will make it harder for you to learn it. So what should you do? Embrace it.

Laravel Dusk is a convenient helper for testing Laravel web applications. It is basically a wrapper around the Selenium SDK which provides an easy-to-use API. By default, Laravel Dusk uses ChromeDriver to run the tests within Chrome. Unfortunately, it is not sufficient to run tests in Chrome only.

Odoo ERP API for Laravel. Odoo website Register Laradoo service by adding it to the providers array.

Use Facebook GraphQL with Laravel 5 or Lumen. It is based on the PHP implementation here. You can find more information about GraphQL in the GraphQL Introduction on the React blog or you can read the GraphQL specifications. This is a work in progress.

Recently, Adam Wathan showed me a fresh approach to writing custom validation rules that he was implementing in his own projects. So, Adam and I decided to pair program the feature into Laravel one morning, and I’m really happy with the results.

Originally presented at the PHP Adelaide meetup in May 2017, this talk aims to serve as a very high-level overview of concepts, groups, and methodologies modern PHP developers should be considering.

Build your PHP app environment based on Docker with a few clicks.

With DependenCI, you'll never have to worry about keeping your dependencies updated anymore. DependenCI integrates with public or private GitHub repositories for free.

The shortlog gives us summaries of git log; the -s flag will a suppress commit description and provide a commit count summary only, and the -n flag will sort output according to the number of commits per author instead of author alphabetic order. The issue here is the wording.

Developing secure, robust web applications in the cloud is hard, very hard. If you think it is easy, you are either a higher form of life or you have a painful awakening ahead of you.

Zttp is a new PHP package by Adam Wathan that is a Guzzle wrapper designed to bring an expressive syntax and simplify common use cases. Here is an example of a Post request with a custom header:

Laravel Forge is a fantastic tool for rapidly spinning up servers with all the best and latest software. It also provides for easy PHP project deployment and setup. However, the default deploy script is rather lacking in a sense that it results in downtime.