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Recently I became much more interested in automated testing – PHPUnit, TDD, Laravel Dusk, Travis and other keywords became “closer”, so I decided to look around how other people perform automated testing.

A few examples of Laravel-related projects which are trying to receive donations or raise funds for their open-source work. How are they doing? What are the numbers?

Quick demo of new integration between QuickAdminPanel and Bitbucket. It works really similar with GitHub, too.

Currently, the $casts you set on a traditional model will work in both directions; any model that extends the Eloquent\Model class will look for a $casts property and convert the specified attributes to a data type when reading and writing. For example, from the documentation: In Laravel 5.

Laravel Scout is a driver-based library for adding full-text search to Eloquent models. If you’re not familiar with Laravel or Eloquent models in general, we have a good premium course available here. In this tutorial, we will create a minimal lyrics web site using Laravel Scout and Algolia.

I could not find any one describing how to do this. If there is a better way or resource please let me know. Please be sure to read the warnings at the bottom of the post.

Server-side rendering (SSR) is a design concept for full-stack web apps that provides a rendered page to the browser. The idea is that the page can be shown while the user waits for scripts to be downloaded and run. If you aren't using a Node.

Deploying an application can be hard. The new code must be pulled in, permissions must be set, migrations must be run, etc. In some cases the whole website goes down while deploying a new version. And the more that must be done manual, the more can, and eventually, will go wrong.

Me and a colleague were working on creating some auto generator that would automate the process of writing Controllers and Tests for an application we were working on. One of the issues we encountered while working on the project was how to singularize database names to Controller names.

The impressive growth of social communities like Instagram and Snapchat is impacting dramatically not just our habits, but also the way we develop our new web apps. Many websites are offering basic webchat services.

After working with Solr in past employment, I’ve alway been interested in indexing large amounts of data and processing that.

These are description and about_story named and id text fields respectively. This make it wait for the description iframe to load. You should change it to whatever the id is for your textarea.

In this third part of the multi-part tutorial where we are building a 90 Day Action Planner using Laravel and Vue.js, we will continue from where we left off in part 2. You can find the first part of this series here.

The ability to define macros for Eloquent relationships is a new feature in Laravel 5.4.

Bug fixes and building new features are always in competition with each other, and it’s common for teams to have a hard time deciding where they should spend their time when it comes to prioritizing these two conflicting, but equally important tasks.

Summer is on, June is over, and it’s time for yet another summary of a month passed. This month’s focus will be on PHP and Laravel, with an emphasis on performance, but many of the tricks are also useful if you work with other technologies. There’s also a gem about database encryption.

With the rise of mobile development and JavaScript frameworks, using a RESTful API is the best option to build a single interface between your data and your client. Laravel is a PHP framework developed with developer productivity in mind.

This popular post has been updated on June 30th 2017 to include newest technologies and tools. For shipping quality code, we must have testing in mind while coding (if not doing TDD).

by pure luck i stumbled upon a package call laravel-image-optimizer and a quick look to the usage it seems very easy to use public function store(Request $request, ImageOptimizer $imageOptimizer) { $picture = $request->file('picture'); // optimize $imageOptimizer->optimizeUploadedImag

It’s always interesting when the next version of Laravel is around the corner. In addition to new features, there’s often significant improvements to existing ones.

Laravel is well known for providing multiple solutions for a problem. This is one of the main reasons of the popularity of the framework. Popular Laravel solutions cover routine functionality such as authentication, sessions, routing, and caching.

Hi there fellow students of the Z. Laravel v5.4.28 was released today and comes with a couple great additions, changes and bug fixes.

Whenever I redirect the user back with an error I know the page will be capable of showing the message properly at the top because of the base template. However, if you do this and then setup a Form Validation, you’ll see only the first error message on top of the page.

Jumpstart your web scraping automation in the cloud with Laravel Dusk, Docker, and friends. We will discuss the types of web scraping tools, the best tools for the job, and how to deal with running selenium in Docker.

The ongoing discussions on Twitter and especially in the Laravel community got me thinking about my own code. Should I stop using type declarations? I did not know! It can be really confusing when it comes to topics like this. Every argument risks starting a new holy war in the comment section.

Every Laravel E-commerce project requires processing payments and generating invoices. Yet for the best experience this flow needs to be tailored for each project. Sometimes a successful payment is confirmed with an invoice receipt. That’s the simple use case.

Hello laravel enthusiasts, welcome back. Here I am going to discuss on something very exciting. You will know how to integrate stripe payment gateway in laravel applications.