Eloquent Tricks and CRUDdy By Design Review

This is the first free video of my newest course "Eloquent: The Expert Level".

This is the second free video of my newest course "Eloquent: The Expert Level".

If you never used $appends in Eloquent Models, this video is for you.

I want to quickly show you an example of a method called before saving the data into the DB, and in both create and update occasions.

I want to show you a non-traditional example of structuring the API subfolder - not in app/Http/Controllers/API, but in a different location.

An open-source example of a controller that processes the destroying of any type of data, using private methods of the same Controller.

There's one thing you can improve in your character, to achieve greater success in your career.

Back in 2017, Adam Wathan made a great talk at Laracon called CRUDdy By Design, which has been recommended and reshared online for years. I decided to summarize it in text form, so instead of watching all 40 minutes, you could read this quicker, also with more examples and my own opinion.

Under the hood, Laravel uses the Carbon library for many datetime operations. By default, every created_at/updated_at field in every Model is casted to Carbon objects, so you may write $user->created_at->diffForHumans(). But there are many more possibilities to that method, let's explore them.

In this video, we will be looking at 5 new things that are added to the latest version of Laravel which is v9.40

Video by Mateus Guimarães

In this series, you will learn everything about building a complete web app.

A huge 7-hour video.

Video from Laracon EU 2022

The fragment directive was introduced in Laravel 9.x and it allows you to render a specific fragment of a blade view. Learn all about it in this short video!

How to easily navigate from browser to code using Laravel Ignition

In this video, we will be looking at how we can convert a complex multi-join raw SQL query into Laravel query builder code.

This guide assumes that you have a Laravel app and want to enable SAML Single Sign-On authentication for your enterprise customers. By the end of this guide, you'll have an app that allows you to authenticate the users using SAML Single Sign-On.

We're going to use Livewire to stream some content to the browser. Livewire works best with low latency! Luckily, Fly.io lets you deploy apps close to your users. Try it out, it takes just a minute. We're going to see how to stream content to the browser using Livewire.

Final classes, you either love them or hate them. People have been using them more recently in their open-source packages, but what does that mean for you? How do you handle this in application code?

Laravel Multiplex is a Laravel package to attach time-sliced metadata to Eloquent models.

Types are being added in a way that brings the latest PHP type-hinting features to Laravel projects without breaking backward compatibility at the framework level.

The Laravel team released 9.40 this week with a new lottery utility class, new validation rules, asserting a redirect to a named route, and more. Tim MacDonald contributed a Lottery support class that can be used in various settings, such as randomizing data sampling, failure reports, etc.

Whilst I definitely like the idea of the ->next() method, I think this could be simplified/improved such that "consumers" can just loop over all the records without having to worry about the pagination.

PHP 8.2 , and is a minor release compared to 8.0 and 8.1. This can be partly attributed to the departure of Nikita Popov as one of the most significant contributors to the PHP language.

This Laravel >= 6.0 package allows you to associate views with Eloquent models. Sometimes you don't want to pull in a third-party service like Google Analytics to track your application's page views. Then this package comes in handy.

For a full list of available icons see the SVG directory or preview all the available flags, check the gallery. Blade Flags uses Blade Icons under the hood. Please refer to the Blade Icons readme for additional functionality. We also recommend to enable icon caching with this library.

This project continues on the official Laravel bootcamp Blade version, adding Livewire to the project. My suggestion is that you first finish creating the application in Blade following the official tutorial and then can back here.

How to log full email messages into *.eml files on filesystem in your Laravel project? We would like to log full message bodies for all messages, no matter if they are sent out directly using Laravel's Mail facade or as Mail Notifications.

I’ve recently seen a Twitter discussion about what primary key should your tables use. The conversion tends to focus on default auto-incrementing integer ids vs UUIDs. I always leaned towards incremental Integer IDs because I find it so simple.

Laravel Collections are a powerful tool for manipulating arrays. They wrap native PHP array functions and provide a fluent interface for working with them. They’re also immutable, meaning they do not modify the original array, but instead return a new collection with the changes applied.

Laravel provides an interesting way to automate common model events inside your app with dispatched events, closure events, and observers.