Validation, Seeders, Routing, Middleware and more

This week's Laravel release contained a new Eloquent method findOr(), let me show it to you in action.

What if you have passed the validation, but then you need to perform another complex check, that may return another validation error? Let me show you TWO examples.

What if you want to seed some data, related to previously created data? Let me show you an example.

There is a way to pass some parameters to the route, even if that route definition doesn't specify the parameters. Let me show you how.

For custom middlewares, we usually create the classes and add them individually to the routes. But you can also group them into a custom group, let me show you how.

I want to show you a bit of unexpected Carbon behavior, if you perform multiple operations with timestamps, and how to solve this potential problem, with CarbonImmutable classes.

While most people learn by reading the documentation, tutorials and watching video courses, I will suggest three more places to learn, which are less talked about.

The Laravel team released 9.11 with an array join method, methods to check the existence of validated input, opt-in deprecation logging, and more.

I regularly post little code snippets and tips on Twitter (@AshAllenDesign) that you can use in your Laravel applications. But, due to the nature of the social media site, older content can sometimes get swept away and not seen after the first few days of posting it.

Laravel 8 introduced new model factories that are basically the same as before, but they are class-based and have some new additions. Unfortunately, switching between different locales was not taken into account, and you have to define one locale in config/app.

In a normal Laravel application we store all of our routes within web.php or api.php typically, however how does this work with our Domain Driven Design approach? Do we create a routes/{domain}.php file, or do we want to put this somewhere else?

For 1-off side/personal projects I'm trying to get into tailwind since all the laravel stuff is pre-bundled with tailwind and I'm trying not to waste time styling things.

Hi, I’m Valerio Barbera, software engineer, founder and CTO at Inspector. In the past, you may have written a cron configuration entry for each task you needed to schedule on your server.

in this video you'll learn how to build a Public API.
We're using, Caching, rate limiting, API resources and we'll have a look at Laravel Telescope.
We'll also use PostMan to test our API.

In this video you will learn how to use Mailhog with Laravel Sail to send & receive emails on your local machine without having to use a third party service.

In this 15 minute video, I'll explain exactly how events and listeners work in Laravel, and how to use them to streamline and organize your controller methods and app codebase.

You'll learn how to:

- Create an event class
- Dispatch a custom event
- Create and attach listener classes to events
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Browsershot is a software by Spatie that converts a webpage into an image or PDF by utilising a headless instance of Chrome. In this post, you will learn how to install it in your Laravel application and use it. The installation is pretty straight-forward.

You might be wondering why I should stop using exceptions in PHP! well, to clarify in this tutorial will see two examples of using exceptions (regular - custom), also will see the advantages of using custom exceptions