Laracon News, Array Validation, CarbonPeriod, and More

While reading Laravel questions on forums, I notice a lot of questions and tricky situations with complex forms containing arrays of data. So I decided to write a tutorial for it, which expanded so much that it became a full course with multiple practical examples.

The Carbon class for dates and times is a part of Laravel by default, but there's also a less-known class, CarbonPeriod. It can help generate the ARRAY of datetimes, often useful for report tables and calendars. In this tutorial, let's look at the 5 most practical examples of CarbonPeriod.

Laravel Validation returns an error as a JSON response with the error messages in a strict standard format. What if you want to change it to an entirely different structure because your front-enders ask you for specific key-value pairs?

Eloquent has a lot of "hidden gems". In this tutorial, let's see how we can get the latest record from the hasMany Relationship in five different ways. Let's imagine we have transactions, and every transaction belongs to a category.

This is a shortened video of the long-form tutorial on Laravel Daily.

A 2-in-1 video: a "trick" that may be beneficial but may also bite you if you're not careful.

Presenting a new tool by Tobias Petry - visually readable MySQL EXPLAIN results.

A demonstration of a new package called Laravel Schema Rules

An example of a Livewire component "hiding" a DB query to be loaded only when someone clicks the button.

I want to demonstrate the great work of the Filament team on data seeders in their official demo.

I received an email with interesting logic about the current Laravel job market. Let's discuss.

Whether you are attending the first Laracon US since Laracon US 2019 or watching from the sidelines, this week will be an amazing week for the Laravel community. We thought sharing some highlights leading up to the big show this week would be fun! Laracon US 2023 is on July 19th and July 20th.

On March 20, 2023, we proudly introduced Pest v2, marking it as our most significant release to date. This version showcased a remarkable architectural plugin, an 80% speed improvement in parallel testing, profiling options, and numerous other features.

Hundreds of developers subscribed to my newsletter. Join them and enjoy free content about the art of crafting web applications! Laravel Herd has been introduced at Laracon US in July 19, 2023 and was developed by Beyond Code for Laravel LLC.

Laravel Folio is a Page-based routing system introduced to Laravel at LaraconUS 2023.

Hey everyone, I'm super excited to share my new course about Laravel, Inertia.js, Svelte, and Tailwind (SILT Stack) where we'll be building practical projects and build three projects along the way.

The course is in an early-release phase and I will be adding more content related to deployments and

If you want to automate adding data into your Laravel application, seeding is the way to go! Whether it's for testing purposes or adding in loads of production details, Laravel's seeders and factories help to rapidly fill up your database tables.

In this video I'll show you a few different ways to

This loads all users and their related comments with just two SQL queries and avoids any N+1 issues if we want to iterate over comments. For this article I'm going to assume you know what the N+1 issue is, so if you're not familiar you could do a quick Google search; it's very widely documented.

As the name suggests, this is a svelte version of the Laravel Breeze package.

I would highly appreciate if you could provide your list of packages along with a short description of their use case (or what problem they solve).

I would like to introduce to you a new open-source project for the Laravel community - we have put together a Wiki that contains a set of proven best practices and standards from well-known developers, from Laravel source codes, and from our own experiences.

The Laracasts PhpStorm for Laravel Developers course is now 100% complete and free to watch. Learn how to level up your editor for Laravel development with this course:

Fly.io can build and run your Laravel app globally. Deploy your Laravel application on Fly.io, you'll be up and running in minutes! Most Laravel libaries that have drivers use a Manager class.

Our Laravel backend integrates with our Salesforce package to transfer tutoring session data from the Knack database to our partners’ Salesforce instances.

"Secret secrets are no fun, secret secrets hurt someone" unless managed right in your Laravel deployment! For Flare, we explored alternative solutions to the classic .env files deployed with every Laravel application. We looked at deploying the .