Dashboards, Efficient Eloquent and Laravel.io Relaunch

Let's talk about a job advertisement which came out this weekend and became a joke in Laravel community. But is it really that funny?

On Twitter I see a bunch of people regularly tweeting very nice code snippets. Instead of only retweeting those, I’m going to add them to my blog. I’ll tag them with tweet.

At Spatie we have a tv screen against the wall that displays a dashboard. This dashboard displays the tasks our team should be working on, important events in the near future, which music is playing at our office, and so on. Here’s what it looks like:

Since a few years everyone seems to be using Laravel for about everything. That is completely understandable, as it provides some great features. The only downside is that when there is a (security) bug this is easily exploited. Sites and plugins like Wappalyzer collect and sell data about websites.

If you want to up and running with basic laravel functionality, then go to my other article on this web blog called Laravel 5.4 Crud Example From Scratch. Go to project folder >> database >> migrations >> items migration file and edit the file.

Monitoring a Laravel application - is there a gold standard? (self.laravel) I was wondering if there is a particularly popular way to monitor Laravel applications, since Forge and Envoyer don't seem to do this.

I made this package to perform a validation for swearwords using Laravel validation service.

Laravel has a powerful Inversion of Control (IoC) / Dependency Injection (DI) Container. Unfortunately the official documentation doesn’t cover all of the available functionality, so I decided to experiment with it and document it for myself. The following is based on Laravel 5.4.

Ever since Laravel 5.3, I’ve seen many cases where Eloquent’s relations and their underlying query builders are not used efficiently. Many of these cases exist because there are multiple paths to the same data, many of which look and feel like equivalent solutions.

Twilio is a SaaS application which enables developers to build telephone applications using web technologies. In this two-part series, we will leverage Twilio to build a weather forecast app that is accessed using the telephone system.

This is a guest post written by Graham Campbell, prominent PHP open source developer and StyleCI founder. This is the third blog in a series on best practices using Composer.

The Laravel community project, Laravel.io, that includes a forum and Pastebin, launched a brand new version. The release features a new design, a new authentication system, and the entire codebase has been rewritten from scratch.

Think twice — in two cases of very large databases I have inherited at relatively large companies, this was exactly the implementation. Aside from the 9x cost in size (36 vs. 4 bytes for an int), strings don’t sort as fast as numbers because they rely on collation rules.

A Laravel package to handle email verification.

For creating Laravel Project, you need to have following things. Type following command in your terminal to create a project.

In this tutorial we will learn how to create custom user log activity without composer page in laravel application. In this article, I share with you very simple and easy log management in laravel application. I created custom log tables and helper facade that way you can keep your track user logs.

Disclaimer: Depending on the kind of logic you need, it’s also possible to use View Composers to achieve a similar result. I’m using Laravel in this new project I’m working on. Some other PHP frameworks have a feature to use controllers as services.

In this video I will show you how to easily deploy a Laravel application to a shared hosting account with InMotion hosting. We will deploy without having to type in one command. Everything will be done via Cpanel and FTP.INMOTION HOSTING: Get an account for $5.99 per monthhttps://secure1.inmotionhos

Collect.js is a port of Laravel Collections to JavaScript. It’s dependency free and makes working with arrays and objects easy. All comparisons in collect.js are done using strict equality. Using loose equality comparisons are generally frowned upon in JavaScript.

Series by Diving Laravel

Those who regularly contribute to open source projects may forget that getting started with your first PR can be incredibly confusing? Where do you even start? Fork? PR? Huh?

This guest post authored by Mohamed Said. Laravel ships with a powerful background job processing system, ensuring your users receive quick responses to their HTTP requests.

Containers are currently being embraced by developers like hot chocolate on a cold winter night. They are appealing to us because they take infrastructure and turn it in to software configuration.

Laravel v5.4.27 was just released and contains a fix for a bug that was introduced in v5.4.26. If necessary, make sure you update your phpunit.xml as well.

Laravel is one of the most popular open-source web application frameworks written in PHP. It aims to help developers build both simple and complex applications by making frequently-used application tasks (like caching and authentication) easier.

Data is beautiful. And with modern technologies it is crazy easy to visualize your data and create great experiences. In this quick how to, we cover how to interact with the npm ? API to get download statistics of a package and generate a chart from this data with Chart.js With Vue.

There have been so many times that I create a new Laravel application and I start putting routes into my routes\api.php file and try to hit that route and get the dreaded {“error”:”Unauthenticated.”} message.

In the previous article, I have discussed the difference between constructor and setter injections. Now, it’s time to pay attention to some examples of how not to use Dependency Injection.

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