Modern PHP features explained

Since its release, PHP 8 has been a game changer. In this tutorial, let's walk through all the latest features with real-world examples of when to use them.

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Laravel 9.37

The Laravel team released 9.37 this week along with a few patch releases between 9.37 and the release of Laravel 9.36. This week's releases added support for preloading assets with Vite, new strict violation handlers, verbose view caching CLI output, and more.

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OpenAI PHP Client

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Laravel Model Flags Package

Laravel Model Flags is a package by Spatie to allow you to add flags to an Eloquent model.

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Blazing Fast Blade Components - 3 New Things Added - New In Laravel 9.36.0
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Laravel Datetime to Carbon Automatically: $dates or $casts
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Using OpenAI with Laravel
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Behind the Dev: Bosun Egberinde
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Laravel's Safety Mechanisms
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Add Form Validation - Build Expense Tracker App With PHP 8
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Events and Listeners in Laravel
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User Registration And Password Hashing - Build Expense Tracker App With PHP 8 (P.2)
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Larashared
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Laravel Multiplex – Fluent Metadata for Eloquent Models
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Laravel FriendlyRecaptcha
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Laravel Splade - Form Components (model binding, validation, Choices.js + Flatpickr, and more!)
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Controller Variables to View: Compact, Array or Other Way? [VIDEO]
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How to use Factories and Seeders in Laravel | Tutorial | Quick Win Wednesday #QWW
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SOLID PHP: One Function or Two Functions? [VIDEO]
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My current setup (end 2022 edition)
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Writing to the Database with Eloquent
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Laravel Notification Event Subscriber Package
Laravel Notification Event Subscriber is a package that registers an event subscriber to make it easy to run code while sending notifications.

Simple one-time password authentication in Laravel
When dealing with Authentication in Laravel, there are several options out of the box. However, sometimes you need something more specific. This tutorial will look at how we can add a one-time password approach to our authentication flow.

Create Rich Data Objects in Laravel
Laravel Data is a package by Spatie that enables the creation of rich data objects which can be used for form requests, data transformers, and more.

Blast — Storybook UI Development for Laravel Blade
Storybook for Laravel Blade is a package to build component libraries using Laravel.

Soft Delete Child Models When a Parent is Deleted
Laravel Soft Deletes Parent is a package that soft deletes child models when a parent model is soft-deleted.

Laravel Castable Data Transfer Object
Laravel Castable Data Transfer Object is a package by Jess Archer for casting JSON columns in the database to a value object.

Archive Eloquent Models with the “Archivable” Package
The Laravel Archivable package by Joel Butcher is a simple package for making Eloquent models “archivable.”