Laravel Daily - PHP 8, WhereDate and Laravel Seeders

A relatively new syntax that allows you to not define the local properties of a certain class, the constructor would take care of them for you.

The final fifth video of the series, analyzing job descriptions for senior Laravel positions. We talk about AWS and related topics.

This video is based on a tweet by Matt Kingshott: he emphasizes that the DB index is not only important to be created but to actually be USED.

How can we seed some fake data, with hasMany relationships a few levels deep? Can we even do it in one sentence, maybe?

There is a method to make your factories a bit more flexible, combinind the seeding into fewer sentences. Let me show you.

A quick trick about Laravel migrations.

I noticed a requirement in job ads that at first seemed weird, but I decided to think about it and share my thoughts in this video.

I loved Reddit's r/place experiment, and wanted to see if I could create something like it using the Laravel and Vue frameworks. It's definitely not an exact recreation, but the basic feature is still there: drawing collaboratively on a pixel grid in real-time.

In this series, you will learn everything about building a complete web application using Laravel and Livewire. My goal here is to teach everything I learned while building real-world applications using Laravel and Livewire.

In this week's #QWW, we're taking a look at 2 Carbon methods, isPast() and isFuture(). 2 powerful methods that I'm using quite often. And as with all of these Quick Win Wednesday tips, this one also shortens our code, making it more readable and easier to use.

Have a great Quick Win Wednesday!

Laravel has great support for sending emails. It also offers a very useful hidden feature that allows you to stop an email of notification from being sent. I needed this because I wanted to prevent sending emails to a e-mailadresses from a specific domain.

Fly.io empowers you to run apps globally, close to your users. If you want to ship a Laravel app, try it out on Fly.io. It takes just a couple of minutes. Fly.io puts your application close to your users by making global deployments easy. It's literally just a few commands.

Laravel Passwordless Login, Magic Login Links, or simply letting users login without providing a password are all different terms of one login mechanism that works like this: The user enters his email/phone number. The user submits the form. An email/SMS will be sent to the user.

Today I tried to hack into our Laravel application trough a blind SQLi vulnerability I discovered in our code. I was able to retrieve the session table with sqlmap. My approach was to hijack the session of a logged in user/admin. So I took a look into the Laravel session/cookie management.

If you’ve ever been familiar with the Laravel framework, it’s unlikely that you haven’t heard of service containers and service providers. In fact, they are the backbone of the Laravel framework and do all the heavy lifting when you launch an instance of any Laravel application.

There's nothing more frustrating than a website that takes time to load. If this is happening to your users, they are going to leave your website before you've even had chance to convince them otherwise. Here are a few quick tips for speeding up your Laravel websites and applications.

We’ve all been there, you need to create some new functionality for your application, but you dont know where to put it. I used to create several service classes based on the entities in my application. For example I usually create a UserService which contains all logic related to my User entity.

Mailbook is a Laravel package that lets you easily inspect your mails without having to actually trigger it in your application. The install command will create a route file named routes/mailbook.php. In this file you can register your emails.

Most likely, if you’re reading this, you are a Laravel Forge user. Probably, also a Docker user or with interest in it. I was a happy Forge user for a long time in a row until I started using Docker, learned a bunch of its advantages, and ultimately fell in love with such.

I've been having an issue lately with my SasS Triprecor with registration bots and wanted to leverage the spatie/laravel-honeypot package to protect it. The only problem is Jetstream uses Laravel Fortify under the hood and the auth-related routes are hidden inside the vendor folder.

On today's post we will see how to use Soketi as a WebSockets server with Laravel. this post will be using all things locally and in the Pt.2 we will deploy Soketi on EC2. Make sure to have all above tools installed on your machine before move on.

According to the size rule, the number of digits in a digital input cannot be traditionally validated using min and max. Currently, we have digits to validate the exact length of a number, and digits_between to validate the length within two bounds.

Here is the top 100 PHP functions : it is the list of the most often used PHP native functions. The functions are named, and ranked from 1 to 100. The other 4500 functions are not ranked here.

Digital Ocean Functions is a serverless compute product Digital Ocean recently launched. It supports PHP as one of the runtimes, along with Node.js, Python, and Go.

For example... If I wanted to run PHP 8.0 with FPM + NGINX, I would use this image: We're taking the extra effort to open source as much as we can.

Greetings everyone! Welcome to the August installment of PHP Annotated, where we’ll catch up on the most interesting things that have happened in the PHP world over the last month, including curated news, articles, tools, and videos.

Creating signed URLs in Laravel is as simple as creating normal routes, except few key differences. In order for Laravel to confirm that these URLs haven't been altered since they were generated, a signature hash is attached to the query string of the URL.

Model Typer Generate TypeScript interfaces from Laravel Models