API Challenge, Interfaces and Action/Service Classes

Interfaces are one of the most confusing topics in OOP with Laravel. When/how specifically should they be used? Let's take a look at two examples.

I didn't plan to shoot this video, but received a comment and thought "why not make it a challenge" :)

In this video, I will give you my version of the API Controller challenge I had posted a few days ago. How to make this controller more elegant and "correct"?

In this live-coding experiment, I will try to move the logic outside of the Controller, and create an Action class, and later a Service class, performing the same thing. Which one do you prefer?

I want to show some examples, explaining the Task Scheduling feature of Laravel, and how it works behind the scenes.

While working on my Laravel Roadmap, I've prepared an example demo-project (or, two, in fact) and this may be a challenge for those of you who are in the very early stages with Laravel.

A simple example of a Livewire component that you need to separate into two components instead. How to fire the events and pass the parameters?

A video from our developer David on how to customize the routes in Laravel, specifically with an example of our QuickAdminPanel.

Uncle Bob's Clean Architecture is quite the hype right now in the architects' world. But when it comes to actual implementations, nothing notable has been proposed for Laravel.

Hi, is it possible to deploy a Laravel project on a shared web hosting without VPS?

Since last fall, I spent over 500 hours revamping our infrastructure to use Docker + Gitlab CI for our deployments. During this process, I also wrote my own PHP images and made them freely available on Github: What you run in development is what you should run in production.

Technologies are Laravel 8 + PHP 8 + MySQL 8. Can be used as personal and company.

Today we are going to learn about Laravel Facades. Out of the gate Laravel comes with several pre-defined Facades - App, Artisan, Blade, Broadcast, View, etc...

When Flare was launched, we used Laravel Spark classic to take care of all user, team and billing functionality. We recently migrated to the latest version of Laravel Spark. It offers a beautiful billing management screen. Here's how it looks like.

For those that work with git for some time, it is not often that you get to discover new things about it. That is if you exclude the plumbing commands which probably most of us don't know by heart and most likely that's for the better.

One of the new features in PHP 8.1 is that PHP's $_FILES super global variable now contains the path to the files uploaded by the user. This information is provided by browsers that support entire directory uploads, and from PHP 8.

More often than not you’ll find yourself in situations where you would need to search keywords or phrases across your project. Doing this is easy when you’re using a visual editor or IDE with you.

If you're looking to send Slack notifications to your company's Slack channel when system events happen such as new user created, payment received, etc, then this guide is for you. We'll be using Laravel's built-in logging channels to "log" messages to our Slack channel.

When working with Laravel, you will probably use the query builder in order to create and run database queries. Sometimes you want to see the raw SQL output of a query, for example when you are debugging.

On the back of Taylor's tweet, and the contribution it referred to by Adam Campbell, I shared that in my applications, I prefer that the framework uses immutable dates by default. Consider the following example.

I need to setup sending around 5k emails via mailgun. Everything is working ok except that I want to optimize the sending.

In this Laravel tip video, we will have a look at how to format a multi-level categories tree using only one query in Laravel.

This is a follow up to the original 15 Random Laravel Snippets & Methods post. The main difference between offset and cursor pagination is that offset pagination uses an offset clause while cursor pagination uses a where clause with a comparison operator.

So this week has been a major "let me down" at work. I've been at the point to where I the NativeScript app that I've been building for the past few weeks is ready to be bundled up and put in the app store / google play store for some internal beta testing.

In some of the cases there are requirement to read contents from PDF document and store it into our database, so in this blog post we are going to see how we can extract data from pdf document and store it. Last thing we will create blade file file.blade.php to upload PDF file.

Social login is now an essential part of any site which performs user authentication. It saves the users a lot of time, as they won't need to fill the whole form. They just sign up with their social account and next time they can log into the website with a single click.

Sometimes, the biggest sign that shows that a framework is maturing is when it has multiple ways of doing the same thing. Laravel, being one of these frameworks, is no exception.

A common thing I see in Laravel communities such as the Laracasts discussion forums is developers who want multiple user types in their application, decide to then create multiple “user” models and tables, and then find they have issues with things like authorisation.

MySQL, an open source database developed by Oracle, powers some of Facebook’s most important workloads. We actively develop new features in MySQL to support our evolving requirements.

This weekend I was talking with a friend about how I'd planned and estimated a huge software project in one of my previous jobs.