Hey guys, It's a funny week for me - I'm on "workation" near the seaside and trying to still work. And you know what - it works really fine! 3-4 hours of *productive* work (all remote) and then pleasant time off with wife and daughter. In fact, thinking it would be a great lifestyle for longer.
Meanwhile, the team works on QuickAdminPanel and we're reinvesting the revenue into new functions like System Calendar or Stripe Payment modules - check them out.
Now, let's dive in into today's things to read!
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Laravel-related articles from all the web
Laravel v5.4.31 released
medium.com
Laravel v5.4.31 was tagged today and the release ships with a couple of handy new methods, such as temporaryUrl() and Request::userAgent(), as well as a couple of changes, bug fixes and PHP 7.2 adjustments.
What Are the New Features in Laravel 5.5?
www.sitepoint.com
Laravel 5.5 will require PHP 7.0+. For the features this modern PHP version brings, please see our recap. Laravel 5.5 will also be the next LTS (Long Term Support) release. This means bugfixes for two years and three years of security updates. That was also the case with Laravel 5.
All About Writing Custom Blade Directives
scotch.io
Often, you will find yourself writing complex logic and conditionals in your views. They not only muck up your pretty Blade templates but also induce logic into your views until you sweep them out with custom Blade directives. Here come Blade directives to rescue your views.
DisableUpdatedAt Trait for Laravel 5.4
stefanzweifel.io
I'm currently working on a project where we rewrite an old CodeIgniter Application in Laravel. Unfortunately the database behind the application can't be changed and not all tables have a created_at and an updated_at column.
Laravel Homestead Version 6 Released
laravel-news.com
The Laravel Homestead project just [tagged the release of version 6.0.0 along with Settler 3.0. Homestead 6 now supports multiple versions of PHP on the same virtual machine. For developers maintaining apps on different versions of PHP this change will make it easier to use Homestead.
Deploying Horizon To Laravel Forge
medium.com
Deploying Horizon to Laravel Forge is a breeze. After installing your Laravel project via the Forge dashboard, you need to add a “Daemon” to run the php artisan horizon command. This will make sure the horizon command is always run and will restart it if it fails unexpectedly.
Decoding Laravel Validation : $this->validate()
blog.sarav.co
Recently, while working on one of my project, I was wondering how laravel $this->validate() works under the hood. So I decided to dig deep into laravel core to find its implementation. Upon finding, it persuaded me to start a series called “Decoding Laravel”.
Best practices for custom helpers on Laravel 5
howsolve.com
o start off I created a folder in my app directory called Helpers. Then within the Helpers folder I added files for functions I wanted to add. Having a folder with multiple files allows us to avoid one big file that gets too long and unmanageable.
Laracon 2017 – A Recap (And Links Galore)
medium.com
I attended my first Laracon in person and I have to say I really enjoyed the experience — maybe more than I expected to. It was well organised and the talks were diverse, informative and actionable. Day 1 was all technical and mostly revolved around Laravel.
The danger of Laravel’s request() helper
medium.com
The request() helper (or Request facade) is one of the options to get to the Request object in Laravel. Another one is via dependency injection. Lately, the request() helper is quickly gaining momentum and seeing greater usages throughout the Laravel ecosystem.
mauricecalhoun/eloquent-otf
github.com
Eloquent On The Fly is a package that has been designed to help you to use Laravel's Eloquent to query array. And then run composer install from the terminal.
toddmotto/public-apis
github.com
For information on contributing to this project, please see the contributing guide. Please note a passing build status indicates all listed APIs are available since the last update. A failing build status indicates that 1 or more services may be unavailable at the moment.
Try Laravel
www.codeschool.com
Dig into an overview of the Laravel framework and learn how to start building PHP applications with MVC architecture.
How to deploy a Laravel app on AWS EC2? (Part 1)
medium.com
Login to AWS console. Click on the drop-down link services and then select EC2. It will redirect you to the EC2 dashboard. Now click on the button Launch Instance and it will redirect you to a new page, where you can choose an AMI among various HVM (Hardware-assisted Virtual Machine).
That's it for this week, see you next Thursday! Povilas Korop LaravelDaily Team
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