Form Requests, Routes Cleanup and PHP OOP

Let's dive into some examples of how/when you would use the same or separate Form Request classes for validation. Spoiler alert: it's mostly a personal preference.

We use Laravel as a framework, but do we understand the underlying OOP features of PHP? I've decided to show a few concepts to remind you of the must-know things.

We all use Composer as Laravel developers, but do you know how it works under the hood, and all of its main features?

This is a video introducing my colleague David who was a part of this channel but more "hidden" and not live with the mic, say hi :)

I want to suggest a new quick challenge for you - clean up the mess in the routes/web.php file, with grouping, naming, etc.

Let's discuss some Pull Requests after last week's challenge, I will mention the main things I've noticed there.

An example of Livewire used to not allow to choose the same value in two different dropdowns, like in team sports.

A quick video from my car, continuing the new Saturday tradition. Let's quickly talk about productivity.

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Generate migration files from an existing schema. To begin, enter the "CREATE TABLE..." statement.

The Laravel team released 8.59 with new morph convenience methods, disallowing class morphs, merging defaults to validated inputs, quiet model factory creation, and the latest changes in the v8.x branch. Check out Pull Request #38668 for more details.

Laravel Fluent is a package that provides an expressive way to define model attributes.

Lately I’ve been working on submitting a PR to a package, Laravel package to be precise. But I had a problem linking it an existing Laravel app to see those adjustments. So reading Composer docs, I found “Repositories”, and you can use it to link a local composer package, How ?

This is a continuation of the ‘Running Laravel Websockets in production’ tutorial series. This tutorial is part of a 4 part series, as shown below. If you haven’t looked at the previous tutorial which includes setting up the initial configurations i.e.

I knew this was going to be a pretty interesting project to start with and I knew I had the right tools. So, I knew what I was going to use right away. So, I set up everything on my Laravel project and was ready to get the project kick-started.

We learning how to send Notifications with management to queues using Redis. In this tutorial we will use the Notifications created previously in the previous tutorials. In first step, we install Redis for this I let you two great tutorials for MacOsx and Linux.

Laravel comes with a few tools which help you manage authorisation and restrict how different users interact with your application. The Laravel documentation for covers how you handle most of this. First you would create a policy for your model. Laravel has an artisan command to help with that;

If you're like me, you've spent way too much time trying to properly connect to a managed MySQL 8 database from Digital Ocean.

In this article, we are going to implement the Continuous Integration part for Laravel Project with Github Actions.

Nuxt.js and Laravel are a good match. While they are meant to be used in different parts of web development, frontend and backend, respectively, they make web develoment easy, expressive, and powerful. They become even more powerful when paired with a tool like GraphQL.

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In this series, you will learn everything about building a complete web application using Laravel and Livewire. My goal here is to teach everything I learned whil

Laravel Defibrillator helps you ensure that aspects of your application that should be running at a regular interval are doing so. When an abnormal heartbeat rhythm is detected, you can defibrillate your heart to get back to normalcy.

Firstly, I want to thank every one of you for signing up to Laravel Security in Depth. I wasn't sure what to expect, and it's honestly been incredible to see just how much support I've received. So thank you, I really appreciate it.

We discussed previously PHPUnit Framework and the type of testing, why we do tests, and all that kind of stuff. Today, we will take a closer step into Pest PHP framework and understand why it's amazing.

The following Laravel project/directory structure represents a personal boilerplate modular/SOA structure that I use most of the time when starting a new Laravel project. The main interface is the RepositoryInterface which has the basic CRUD and some additional methods defined.

Many times when you are working on SQLite database with Laravel you might have come across a wired error that SQLite doesn't support dropping foreign keys. The reason is SQLite database has no concept called foreign keys. Let's fix this issue in Laravel.

My system is safe, it uses encryption. You heard/said this from time to time. Sure, but why and how is it safe? Do you really know this?

PHP 8.1 introduces enums and some other things. This video shows some of the amazing new functionality.

Recently I wanted to support multiple language responses in my Laravel REST API project. So thought that it would be a good go for the Localization feature of Laravel. Let me walk you through the process of how I achieved it.

Just a month ago, I came across a curious app Ray from spatie— an application with a minimalist interface for displaying debug information (values of variables, errors, logs, etc.) during application development.

Configuring scheduled jobs in Laravel is easy! Configuring the scheduler to run in a Docker environment like Laravel Sail is not so obvious, especially those new to Docker or cron jobs in general.

There will be many times where you will be required to work on things that utilize both Vue and Laravel. But there are times people will ask themselves, “How am I going to transmit my data from Laravel to Vue?”

Image is very important resource of our websites, sometimes the larger number of images makes our websites slower. To makes our websites run smoother with larger number of images, we have to optimize the images of our websites. So, in this article we will learn how to optimize images in laravel.

Over the past few years I have created tons and tons of models in Laravel. These models have always blown up in size with tons of accessors and added scopes. For the unintroduced, model scopes are methods containing queries that can be chained while retrieving data from the database.

We've created a new package that can render a beautiful support form widget on any page. You can read more about the package in this blog post at Flare. In this stream, I'll show you how to use the package. We'll also source dive its code.

Checking the existence of relationships and fetching model records is quite easy in Laravel. Now, if you want to go deeper with this, for example, if you only want to retrieve the books which have more than 3 stars, you can use the whereHas method like so.

Making your app multilingual with Laravel could be extremely easy if route prefixes were documented a little better. That said, every problem has its solution, and here’s the code I use in its most basic form. It all starts in the routes files. We want to change the language based on the URL.