Laravel 5.5, Certification and YouTube Channels

Laracasts is the no.1 place to learn Laravel, no doubt. But if you don’t want to pay for subscription or just like to use YouTube, there are people who can teach you there. I’ve searched through YouTube and picked the best ones, in my opinion.

Version 5.5 of Laravel is now officially released! This release is jam-packed with goodies and improvements–here’s a quick video summarizing the highlight features.

Two days ago I published my first impressions on Laravel newest API Resource feature. This article will take one step further by using a more Laravel-friendly approach in the Transformation layer. Note: This article will start at step 4.

Last night Taylor Otwell finally introduced what can be the beginning of replacing Fractal when developing APIs on Laravel 5.5. This is my first trial-and-run at it. The interesting stuff starts at step 4.

At Spatie we’ve released a plethora of Laravel packages. With the imminent release of Laravel 5.5 most of our packages will get a new (major) version. In this blogpost I’d like to explain how we handle new releases of the framework and what it means for our packages.

For about 2 years I have been using Fractal for my API development. If there was one thing that I always wanted in Laravel, it was exactly that. Transforming your data in order to build better APIs.

Laravel v5.4.34 was released yesterday (August 24th) and v5.4.35 was shipped today to fix a breaking change in v5.4.34. You might want to take a closer look at #20707 and possibly update your auth templates.

Most of the mail that’s sent from web apps are really has the purpose of notifying users that a particular action has happened. Laravel 5.3 included a new concept in laravel called notifications.

This week, we just published some great bash aliases from the community, and I wanted to write more about maximizing your terminal productivity.

Okay so people are still arguing about angular and react, its remarkable how much power those two have amassed over the course of time. Its certainly non-negligent, but more usual than not, there are better options out there and psst ** Vue is one of them.

Laracon US ended a few weeks ago and as all the previous Laracon’s it was a fantastic event. StreamACon recorded all the videos for the second year in a row and they have just made available all the videos from each day of the event.

Previously, I wrote a very comprehensive tutorial on using twig templating with Slim micro framework. In that tutorial, I created an MVC type architecture to render views from controllers.

I'm building a multi-tenant Laravel application. One of the requirements of the project is that every client can have their own theme based on their corporate guidelines. By default a few css adjustments will suffice, but some clients request a completely different template.

Example SELECT * FROM users; DB::select('*')->from('users')

I just read an article on Laravel News about Laravel bash aliases but they all assumed that every developer uses a Linux box or a Mac. Truth be told, many developers do use the Windows operating system as their main or even only development environment. I am one of them.

Building good APIs is hard, and anyone who had the chance to do so can relate to this. A project can easily grow to become a mess. One can keep trying to adopt an approach to make it more enjoyable, like trying a documentation-first workflow, but something always feels clumsy.

Are you ready to develop the Rest APIs in PHP? The first thing you require is a lightweight PHP Framework to create a fast and reliable restful service.

Bash aliases are shortcuts added to a file that allows you to reference another command through more memorable words, abbreviations, or characters.

This is a tutorial on how to get JSON Web tokens working so that React can securely communicate with a back-end API. For the purposes of this tutorial I’ll be using Laravel 5.4 for the back-end and React for the front-end. The finished code can be seen here.

Basically, using laravel pipelines you can pass an object between several classes in a fluid way to perform any type of task and finally return the resulting value once all the “tasks” have been executed.

Imagine we have a website that shows a list of upcoming films. The list may comprise of a title and release date.

So you built something, its running, and now you need to have some kind of automated database backup running. Wouldn’t it be nice to just be able to implement this with a few lines of code and a git repository ? Right — that’s what I thought too.

A year ago i worked on a project where i had to do payment integration, it was first time, and looking back to how i handled it, i realize i made a few mistakes on the project. This post can serve as a guide to any beginner looking to integrate payments in their application.

Helps discover good candidates for refactoring. churn-php only assists the developer to identify files for refactoring. It's best to use the results in addition to your own judgment to decide which files you may want to refactor.

What Is SQLCheck? SQLCheck automates the detection of common anti-patterns in SQL queries. Such anti-patterns often increase the time taken to run the queries on a database management system. Addressing these anti-patterns will, therefore, help improve the runtime performance of the queries.

This will both update composer.json and install the package into the vendor/ directory. See the Defining Breadcrumbs section for more details.

This package is powered by standard Laravel scopes, instead of other similar packages, that brings something like Filter classes to your code, so it is much more easy to jump into.

This package allows you to create easy model routes for you Eloquent models. There is one one configuration you can do for now and its setting the $baseRoute on the model itself, it defaults to the same how the table name for a model is generated.