Laracon Releases, Laravel E-Shops and MUCH More

Which Laravel e-commerce CMS/package is the best? It's a common question on forums. We tested out FOUR popular Laravel packages for e-shops - Aimeos, Bagisto, Lunar, and Vanilo. In this tutorial, you will see who are the "winners".

Bagisto is one of the most popular Laravel e-commerce systems. In this tutorial, we will try to build a small demo e-shop with it, step-by-step, creating a custom design theme. The example shop idea is taken from a "former official" store of Laravel products.

When working with shops and e-commerce projects, one common question is how to structure the DB of products with all attributes, variants, and options, like "iPhone - Black - 2 GB RAM - 1 TB Storage". In this tutorial, we will show our version of doing that.

Have you ever seen the error message Target class does not exist when using Laravel routes? This error in PHP occurs when you try to use a class that has not been defined or loaded into the current PHP script.

If you build links and call them by route names, you may get an error like "Route [register] not defined". But you could swear that the name is correct! I will show you the easiest way to debug and fix it.

In reports or tables, you often need to show one record with all its "children" records on the same line, separated by a comma. In this tutorial, I will show you TWO ways to achieve that in Laravel. Let's imagine you have a relationship of Player -> hasMany -> Game with a score for each game.

Answering a Laracasts forum topic which may seem like an obvious answer to experienced developers, but still, many people struggle with array validation like this one.

A new Laravel feature that allows you to not run `bcrypt()` or `Hash::make()` on passwords manually.

Another example of an Eloquent report performing data operations in Collections vs SubSelect

What if you need to show a report with days as columns? I will show you an example.

If you want to delete a parent record with its children and third-level "grandchildren", you can do that in various ways. Let me show them.

An example report that would be exported to Excel/PDF without running the same query for the second time.

Want to share a "brain trick" that works for me.

The 2023 Laracon US is now wrapped up, and it was a fantastic week of new product releases, training, inspiration, and meeting new and old friends.

Taylor's "State of Laravel" keynote presentation is now live on Youtube. See Laravel Folio, Laravel Herd, Laravel Volt, Laravel 11, and more.

Yesterday, we released released Laravel Folio, a powerful page-based router designed to simplify routing in Laravel applications. While Laravel Folio is great for static pages, it doesn't support the rich interactivity many users have come to expect from modern web applications.

The Laravel Folio repository and documentation are available on GitHub: github.com/laravel/folio. Today, we are releasing the first beta of Laravel Folio. Folio is a powerful page-based router designed to simplify routing in Laravel applications.

Caleb Porzio's "Livewire 3" presentation is now live on Youtube. See all the new Livewire features unveiled from the stage of Laracon US 2023.

Marcel Pociot's NativePHP presentation is now live on Youtube. See how you can write rich, native desktop applications using PHP from is Laracon US 2023 talk.

Nuno Maduro's Pest 2 - Summer of Spice talk is now live on Youtube. Check out the spicy new features available in our favorite PHP testing framework.

This is just a temporary holding spot for this content until I flesh it out and create a real design and layout. I’m seriously considering giving a talk about “enterprise” app development and Laravel.

Laravel Herd is a blazingly fast, native Laravel and PHP development environment for macOS. It includes everything you need to start Laravel development, including PHP and nginx. Once you install Herd, you're ready to start developing with Laravel:

Live on stage at Laracon, Caleb Porzio just released the official Livewire v3 beta! In his talk, he demoed a ton of new features, some of which we'll cover here. The core of Livewire has been totally rewritten from scratch.

Laravel 11 is not scheduled to be released until the end of the year, but some new features have been shared out, and Taylor goes through some big new improvements in his Laracon keynote: Streamlined Directory Structure So far, these are just a beta preview.

I've been trying out Pest for a few months now, and I can't say that I'm a fan. I feel like any time I need to do something remotely complicated, the PHPUnit style actually looks cleaner than Pest to me.

In this Laravel tutorial, I’ll show you how to create and implement your custom Livewire components within Filament.

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 under an hour we:

- Create a new

When architecting healthcare mobile apps and software systems it is imperative to have a thorough understanding of HIPAA compliance, and the necessary safeguards and implementations that software systems must provide to ensure privacy and security of ePHI (Protected Health Information).

Let's say you have sensitive data to store. Like, medical or governmental data and documents. What is the best way to safely store it in Laravel?

Maybe this is just my own experience, but using Magic Attributes in Laravel causes more harm than good. The biggest gripes I've seen boil down to not knowing if $model->foo is a database column or magic attribute.

Yearly tradition.

This week, the Laravel team released v10.16 with support for BackedEnum in the Collection groupBy() method, improvements to the schedule:list output, and more:

Search functionality is often crucial in a modern web application. When a website provides documents with extensive text, such as PDF files, it is often necessary to allow users to list and search within the content of these documents.

Are you working on a Laravel blog and feel like you need to inject some dynamic content in it? Maybe you want to make your code more flexible and reusable? In this article, we'll be exploring how you can use the Spatie laravel markdown package to render custom Livewire components in markdown for you

The Facade component plays a crucial role in Laravel. It’s employed extensively throughout the system. Numerous packages provide facade classes, simplifying the writing and implementation process for developers.

Laravel offers developers a powerful platform for building robust applications. However, when it comes to Laravel packages, testing often takes a back seat.