Live-Coding Videos, 5.4.29 and Most Popular Packages

A new series of live-coding videos, as I'm creating a learning management system in Laravel. In this video - I'm generating an admin panel to manage courses, along with database structure.

Part two of the series - we're making sure that teachers can access only their own courses and cannot see other teacher data.Part 1 is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8c107...Link to Query Scopes: https://laravel.com/docs/5.4/eloquent...

One of the most popular/confusing topic in Laravel for beginners, so decided to make a video about it.

This is a Laravel 5.4 adminpanel starter project with roles-permissions management based on Joseph Silber's Bouncer package, AdminLTE theme and Datatables.net. Part of this project was generated automatically by QuickAdminPanel system.

Resource controllers are amazing tool to work with CRUD functions in Laravel. But what if their default functionality isn’t 100% suitable and you want to override some defaults? Let’s see what you can do. And the same will apply to route names – they will be assigned as photo.create, photo.

A quick tip for the case if you need to add additional GET parameters to your route URL, but don’t want to specify them in Routes file. Apparently, there’s a simple way. Now, what if you want to track this link with UTM parameters?

Laravel v5.4.29 was released today. Aside from the usual bug fixes and improvements, it ships with two new Blade directives: @auth and @guest.

Today the JetBrains team released PhpStorm 2017.2, the second major update for PhpStorm in 2017. This release brings improvements when working with Composer, Docker Compose, reworked polymorphic types support, automatically run PHPUnit tests and many other enhancements.

Laravel Collective is a set of components that have been removed from Laravel’s core framework and are no longer maintained by Taylor Otwell. Instead there is group of volunteers who decided to maintain following once famous packages:

A few years ago when you would ask developers why would you use PHP over Ruby, most of them would say, PHP is going to die soon because coding in PHP results in Spaghetti code. In fact I, myself defended Ruby on Rails in for so many good reasons and I still do.

As Laravel ships with Blade, the Laravel manual gives templating examples in Blade. However, it takes slightly more effort to display form validation errors.

When using Laravel Mix and Webpack to bundle your Laravel application’s JavaScript, you generally save all of your app’s JavaScript into a single file. Let’s call ours app.js. This app.js file will include all of Vue, jQuery, axios, and any other 3rd party libraries we’re using.

Laravel devs: what are the packages you install on *every* app? I wanted to know for my talk, but I was also just curious for my own purposes. Are there any packages I should check out that everyone else already knows about?

In this video I'm going to create a new website for Laravelista using Laravel. Once finished it can be found on https://laravelista.hr. This website will replace the current http://business.laravelista.com website.

So, you’re bootstrapping a new Laravel 5.4 application that will be your million-dollar idea and you need to fill the database with fake data to test during development.

Do you have a Laravel website and looking for connecting multiple databases. In this article, we study Laravel multiple database connections feature which is bundled by default when we install the Laravel. Usually, we need a single database for one website.

F: You API does not work! B: Oh my god, you might have sent a wrong request. F: Nah, I did everything right. It is not working! B: I wish I could see what request he sent to my API… Working in the team has its issues.

How To Add Charts in Laravel using ChartJS is today’s main topic to discuss. In real time web application, we have to deal with charts. If you are working in the Finance Field, then Charts are like Oxygen. You can not think of any Analysis without Charts.

We’re going to follow along with @felicianopj post that is available here. We have a Laravel app and we need to store our tasks in the database.

You might know that Laravel 5.5 will be using Whoops out of the box as its default Exception Handler. And what you may not know is that Whoops supports many editors. If you make a typo or raise an Exception, Whoops will give you the full path to the file that caused that error.

In a project I’m currently working on, I was tasked to add a new is_archived flag to the Order model. The project uses Angular and Laravel. Easy thing to do, just add a boolean column and a single checkbox. The thing is, sometimes I like to use timestamps instead of simple boolean fields.

Progressive Web Apps or PWA’s are the it thing at the moment. Why wouldn’t it be? The promise of a website behaving like a native app, without all the hassles.

In Buddy.Works we help developers automate tests and deployments of their application. In this article we'll compare the most popular delivery workflows for PHP applications. Every application is different, and so is its delivery process.

Bouncer is an authorization package by Joseph Silber which allows role and ability checks at Laravel’s authorization gate. The package is described as follows: Bouncer provides a mechanism to handle roles and abilities in Laravel’s ACL.

Laravel Scout makes it very easy to setup an external search engine to create consumer-grade search quickly. The package comes with Algolia as a default search engine. I'd like to demonstrate how to make use of the geo-location search feature with Scout.

Bitbucket Pipelines is a CI service that you can use to test your application, yes it has its own limitation, but remember it is still new and hopefully it will get better. Today I had the chance to work with it, and trust me I was not planning to do so, am a happy Gitlab-ci user, but why not.

Laravel Facebook Login Tutorial is the tutorial title today we will deep dive.  I am going to show you how to Login users with Facebook and save them into your database using Laravel 5.4 I will guide you how to Integrate Facebook socialite login into your Laravel 5.4 application.

Every two weeks I send out a newsletter containing lots of interesting stuff for the modern PHP developer. You can expect quick tips, links to interesting tutorials, opinions and packages.

In my previous articles, I helped you create a Laravel email sending system and a Contact Us form. In this article, I will highlight another amazing feature of Laravel through a very basic Laravel notification system.

A while ago we released image-optimizer. In short this package can make all kinds of images smaller by stripping out metadata and applying a little bit of compression. Read this blogpost to learn more about it.

When it comes to best practices, there’s always a healthy debate, and that’s never more true than in the PHP community.

A set of charts demonstrating the paths that you can take and the technologies that you would want to adopt in order to become a frontend, backend or a devops.

Laravel 5.5 comes with artisan preset [preset name] command to quickly scaffold your frontend application using one of your favorite CSS and JS frameworks. By default, it has a built in presets for Twitter Bootstrap, Vue.js, React and blank preset.

Share links exist on almost every page in every project, creating the code for these share links over and over again can be a pain in the ass. With Laravel Share you can generate these links in just seconds in a way tailored for Laravel. This service provider must be installed.

Load Laravel service providers based on the current environment. Specify the service providers to load per environment directly in your configuration file.

Booknshelf is your online bookshelf that helps you to stay organized with your books. However, this is just the beginning! I've talked about the long term goal of this project in my post.