Static Methods, API Versioning, Tests and More

Experienced developers often advise avoiding static methods in PHP classes. In this tutorial, let me give you a few practical Laravel/PHP examples behind this advice. When are static methods ok, and when it's best to avoid them?

Have you ever used an external API and specified its version? For example, have you noticed the /v1/ in the URL of https://api.openai.com/v1/models? In this tutorial, I will explain how to use similar versioning for our own APIs we create with Laravel.

When writing automated tests, sometimes you want to repeat the same test multiple times on various data inputs. In Laravel, you can do this easily with data providers and datasets. I will show you a PHPUnit and a Pest example.

If you have a Laravel many-to-many relationship and need to sort the Collection by the pivot table value, the query may be complicated. Let's take a look at this example. Your task is to get the companies that offer service with a specific ID, ordered by their average rating for that service.

Imagine you have a Laravel + Vue project with Posts in the DB but need to show only the first 300 characters of content in the Posts list. Where should you perform that slicing - in Vue or Laravel? Let's compare.

Exporting data to PDF is a very common feature. This tutorial will show how to do it in the Filament admin panel: we will export a single record to PDF using Blade View and barryvdh/laravel-dompdf package.

JetBrains company gave me 2 licenses to give for you, as a part of their campaign to bundle PhpStorm with the Laravel Idea plugin.

Switching between "doctor" and "patient" role to provide different functionality? Let me show an example.

A few examples of how Policy classes are used in the Eddy Server management application.

A few practical examples of exceptions in the Eddy Management source.

Saw this example, and decided to show you and discuss it.

Interesting showcase of events/listeners usage which I would call non-standard.

If you have an SQL query, you don't have to transform it into Eloquent or Query Builder.

Let's get away from Laravel and coding for a minute and talk about your life goals. Here's my advice.

I planned on custom writing everything with InertiaJS and Vue 3 so any packages around Laravel/Vue 3 that could ease some of my work would be great.

I've been working with Laravel for the past 5-6 years and throughout this time, I've accomplished some projects I'm truly proud of. I've enjoyed the journey and have become quite proficient in using this framework and the MVC pattern that it employs.

I often forgot to update .env.example within my Laravel projects so I created this small package to sync my .env.example with Artisan easily. Hope it will be useful :)

Hey everyone, Andrew here! Using just Node installed on your machine, you can install the command-line app globally and use it to create a new Laravel application, run composer and artisan commands, and serve it through a local webserver to aid in development.

Laravel 10 is getting a long-awaited feature to get the raw SQL query, including bindings

As a Laravel developer, you are writing Eloquent queries every day. These queries can be a simple insert of a new record or a complex select with multiple relationships and dependencies.

You’re a Laravel developer, a web artisan. You want to be more productive, right? In this blog post, you’ll learn how to increase your productivity using PhpStorm with the Laravel Idea plugin.

Laravel Envoy is a tool for executing common tasks you run on your remote servers. I believe Envoy is underrated, I don't see it being used very often, even though I have always found it super useful. In this article, we will explore how Envoy can help increase your productivity

In this course, we'll explore Laravel Octane in detail, and learn how to leverage its capabilities to optimize the performance of your Laravel applications. So fasten your seatbelts and join me on this journey! Let's get going.

This package provides a convenient integration of the great https://github.com/webonyx/graphql-php/ library for Laravel 9+.