PHP for Laravel Developers. Wait... what?

Laravel has a lot of valuable helper functions. This post will show 16 examples of string helpers and how they are used in real projects.

File upload in Laravel is pretty straightforward, but deleting obsolete files is often overlooked. When you update Eloquent models or change data, the files stay on the server. How to clean them up? We will discuss several ways. There are several cases of how and when to delete them.

Have you ever seen a PHP code with an if statement written "backwards", like if ("value" == $variable)? Why is it written this way? Why not the usual way, like ($variable == 1)?

When building the Repeater field in Filament forms, you may want to perform some action or calculation whenever any of the repeater columns is changed. Let me show you how we did it in one of our Filament Examples projects of invoices.

Exporting and importing data from an Excel file is very common. In this tutorial, we will use pxlrbt/filament-excel for exporting and konnco/filament-import for importing data. First, we must install the package via composer.

Building an admin panel usually requires some form of logging. This means you must log every change or create actions on your application. The question is - how do you do this with Filament? You have a few package options, so let's look at them.

Presenting my new course, with a few free lessons on YouTube.

Trying out a new "type" of video on this channel: reaction to other tutorials.

A new small life-improvement feature in Livewire 3.0.8.

Based on the comments on two previous videos, I want to emphasize the value of parameters in designing your functions.

Everyone likes shorter code until it becomes less readable. Let me show you an example.

Based on replies to my tweet, I noticed a pattern that I want to share.

I get a lot of questions asking for my opinion on various technology solutions. Let me explain.

YouTube video.

Learn all about the power of Laravel's atomic locks! I demonstrate how to grant unique access to resources, mitigate race conditions, and draw pretty red and green boxes on the screen.

I am writing a laravel app and I recently started organizing my code (removing stuff from controllers and putting it into services) but I soon found myself calling services within services. Is this desired/correct way to do this?

Accounting for APIs while testing can be a confusing and sometimes painful process. Whether you are testing client-side components or server-side code, you must somehow mock or fake the request and response in your code.

This week, the Laravel team released v10.32, with new conditional push Blade directives, conditional "present" validation rules, and more. Laravel 10 saw 15 individual contributions, including updates, fixes, and improvements. Here is a bit more info about the new features introduced this week:

In this tutorial we are going to build a Laravel application using the new OpenAI Assistants API. The goal of the application is to build a tool which answers questions about the Pest Testing framework based on the current state of the Pest documentation.

Duplicate form submissions or requests can be a common issue in web applications, often leading to unintended consequences. Laravel offers a straightforward solution to prevent these duplicates by using atomic locks.

Docker is an open-source project that automates the deployment of Linux applications inside software containers.

In this post I'm going to build a new package called Laravel Tags it will take a string and replace placeholder tags kinda of like shortcodes. For example, have a blog post that contains tags [year] or [appName] and have them replaced in the content.

Your commit history plays a huge role in the future of the open source projects that you contribute to, and commit messages are key to making this possible.

Last weekend I had a chance to talk with some students who just got their degree. They are pursuing their first software engineer job. In conversation with them, I learned that they have a pretty wrong perception of this job. This is because the reality for these new kids is so skewed.