Validation, Performance Course, Testing and 5.5

A short list in “Did you know…?” style. Laravel has a convenient validation mechanism, but most of us only use simple rules like ‘required’, ’email’ or ‘date’. Actually, there are a few less-known but pretty interesting ones. Let’s have a look.

New series on Laracasts.

New FREE course: learn how the optimize command speeds up Laravel.

Laravel v5.4.26 shipped today. The release contains a few additions, but consists mainly of several interesting changes and bug fixes.

I am using Vue and Vue-Router on top of Laravel 5.4. I am now going to show you how to set up your Laravel Installation to also be able to use Vue-Router.

Talk is a Laravel based realtime messaging or conversation system. You can easily integrate this package with any Laravel based project. It helps you to develop a messaging system in just few mins. You can install Talk via composer. Run this command from your terminal.

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Did you know it’s possible to build a 100% native app with October CMS? We are not talking about a Javascript SPA wrapped with PhoneGap and bundled into the app stores.

This package allows you to store page visits of different models into the database. This package isn't built for tracking every page visit. It actually made more for providing a simple counter for Model items like a Task, Article, Post or Course. But of course you can use this package as want.

So in this section I’ll cover my research about automated testing in Laravel. Wanna jump to complete source? Here we are

In this tutorial, i am going to share with you how to create user block and unblock feature in your laravel 5 application using laravel-ban composer package. It will mostly require to create user ban and revoke functionality for security reason.

Partyline is a new package that allows you to output to the console from outside of command class. This allows you more control on how things are printed and is great for when you need to loop items and show progress or other insights.

Whenever we call $post->author->name there is database call made on authors table . So we minimized the number of queries and improved the performance of application.

In my day job, we make good use of Laravel's authentication quickstart via php artisan make:auth, but our next step is to always remove the user registration component.

This is the second part of the multi-part tutorial where we are building a 90 Day Action Planner using Laravel and Vue.js. Let’s fire up our application by running yarn watch or npm run watch if you using npm from the console.

Sometimes a scheduled job takes more time to run than what we initially expected, and this causes another instance of the job to start while the first one is not done yet, for example imagine that we run a job that generates a report every minute, after sometime when the data gets huge the report g

In this tutorial, we're going to learn how you can create a caching layer in your Laravel application to help speed up your website and reduce the number of requests to your database.

In this tutorial, I will show you how to replace default Laravel 5 testing suites with Codeception only. Continuing on my post from 2014: Getting started with Codeception.

This is Part 4 of Rebuild Twitter with Laravel. Previously, you created the foundation, built profile and timeline. In this part, you’re going to introduce the tweeting feature to your user. If you’ve done the previous parts, jump right to the planning.

8. How do exclude parameters from queries?

In part 2 we discussed how to transfer HTML of a page in Laravel system. I am now going to tell how to optimize your page by reducing unnecessary requests into one and how to create a master layout that could be used for other inner pages.

Say you want to construct a mobile app for a location-based service such as on demand cleaning or any field service organization, in general. For a such a location-based service, consumers post a request and suppliers are allocated per demand.

Improving database query performance of polymorphic relations is a rarely-documented edge case in Laravel development but I’ve solved some N+1 problems it presents.

More and more PHP developers finding the way using containers in their dev and test workflow. It was about time to write a small piece how to deploy a PHP application on Cloud 66 for Docker.

Invisible reCAPTCHA is an improved version of reCAPTCHA v2 (No CAPTCHA) developed by Google, and users now only need to click the button: “I’m not a robot” to prove they are human. In Invisible reCAPTCHA, there is no longer an embedded CAPTCHA box for users to interact with.

I use this image for all my projects, but of course, you can create your own or use another one. This has all the libraries and tools that I need for my applications, is not always the same but is a good base. So the first thing we need to do is install docker.