Artisan Commands, Eager Loading and Useful Packages

I’ve recently found out about a feature in Laravel relationship which changed the way I write code. So sharing with you. Now, what if some post doesn’t have author? Meaning posts.author_id is NULL.

Continuing video series, parts 7-9 are published.

I have a "gift" for you. From now, modules that were in Premium plans are now FREE to try.

Have you ever wanted a local version of Amazon S3 while developing Laravel applications? Well want no more, Minio is…

This'll save me literally dozens of seconds. DOZENS! Suck it Bing!

If you want to play with the upcoming new version of Laravel (5.5) you can easily install it. This version includes the upcoming new version of the “laravel/framework” packages.

I’ve written console commands in many different languages, including Node.js, Golang, PHP, and straight up bash. In my experience, the Symfony console component is one of the best-built console libraries in existence—in any language.

Normally Spark sign ups do not require email verification because the user is signing up to pay monthly or whatever. But I needed a permanent ‘Free’ account option for my app that does not run out after a set time.

Object Relational mapping (ORM) makes working with databases amazingly simple. While defining database relationships in an object-oriented way makes it easy to query related model data, developers might not pay attention to the underlying database calls.

I’ve been developing web applications for about 15 years, but somehow Xdebug is still challenging to set up. Follow along and learn how to find Xdebug settings and configure it for local development with PhpStorm.

JSON Web Token (JWT) is an open standard (RFC 7519) that defines a compact and self-contained way for securely transmitting information between parties as a JSON object. This information can be verified and trusted because it is digitally signed.

Unfortunately, Xcode does not render Leaf-templates correctly. You could manually set the type to HTML, but this will revert every time you build. Instead, I went back to good old Sublime for editing templates. First install Leaf — Packages — Package Control Open Resources/Views/base.

What was I doing? I was building a system that required users, doctors, and admins to register and have different authentications. I needed to set up different logins and tables for them and I wanted to make use of the Laravel App\User.

Valet+ is a blazing fast PHP development environment. It makes you forget all the hassle of setting up a webserver with vhosts, MySQL installation, and editing your /etc/hosts file. It runs solely on your Mac, so there is no Vagrant, Docker, NFS or file sync needed to run.

If you are writing article for your blog or your personal website then you must need to implement taggable system in your website. If you write article or post for food then you have to create tags like on foods name, foods type etc.

Previous article we learn Building API using Laravel And GraphQL for Product List and User List, if you read previous article , i suggest you read it first. Now we will learn about Mutation and Authentication API with GraphQL

This article discusses getting a Azure Linux virtual machine service up and running with various local services from the command line. A nice way to get a prototype live and running for review and not really caring about safety and scale. I hope someone finds the fruits of my labour useful.

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Docker is an actual thing, there is no doubt about it. I think one of the hardest jobs of a developer these days is trying to sift the worthwhile technologies from the hype.

If you want your Vue.js single-page app to communicate with a Laravel backend, you will, quite reasonably, think of using AJAX. Indeed, Laravel comes with the Axios library loaded in by default.

This article was sponsored by Acuity Scheduling. Thank you for supporting the partners who make SitePoint possible. I recently wrote an article about building an online system to book lessons with a driving instructor.

You could just debug your PHP code using functions such as error_log, print, and var_dump, (and to be honest we’ve all done it, a lot!), but sometimes they just aren’t enough, and can actually slow you down while developing.

Caleb Porzio and I started a podcast recently in our Tighten-provided 20% time . We call it Twenty Percent Time, and lately we've been talking a lot (#growthhacking, resources) about how we transfer data between our Laravel code and our JavaScript code.

These are some boilerplate PHPUnit tests that will provide coverage for Laravel's auth scaffold. Drop them into a fresh (or existing) Laravel app that uses the scaffold to ensure your users can register, login and reset their passwords.

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A demo illustrating how Laravel notifications work through various channels (e.g. SMS, email, Slack, database). Sign up for an account (with free credits) on Nexmo to generate values for NEXMO_* directives on the .env file.

This Artisan command allows you to migrate to external or additional environments by switching out the database details in an easy to use prompt interface. This can be useful if you external staging and production environments and need to test or run migrations against the databases.

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