Faster Eloquent, API Resources and 30+ Tips

After quite a while, I'm making another junior Laravel code review, with tips on migrations, routing, PSR standards, Route Model Binding, and more.

I've talked a lot about Eloquent on this channel but decided to pick the three most common mistakes related to performance.

Eloquent API Resources are typically used to transform API results into the format that you need, but did you know about more complex conditions and relationship structures that you can use in the API Resource class? I will show you 3 open-source examples.

My advice from practice, on the way of thinking and the approach how to test your application with a bigger amount of data.

I decided to make my own life easier, so I would be able to create small demo projects quicker, but also releasing this for free on Github, so maybe you would use them as well.

Try-catch is a typical PHP/Laravel way to process the exceptions. But how do you handle PHP errors? Or, do you? Let me show you a few examples.

A typical Saturday video about non-Laravel topics, and this time I will share three random tips on how to find better results on Google. Any tips you would add to this list?

In Web Development, REST APIs play an important role in ensuring smooth communication between the client and the server. You can think of the client as the front end and the server as the back end.

A package for Laravel One Time Password (OTP) generator and validation without Eloquent Model, since it done by Cache. The cache connection same as your laravel cache config and it supported: "apc", "array", "database", "file", "memcached", "redis"

To build trust in your online community or blog, one crucial element you’ll want is a well-designed Laravel live commenting system.

Video on Reddit.

At some point, almost every Laravel application need to work with dates and times. But manages dates and times is sometimes ridiculously complex, because of timezones. In which timezone do you store dates and times? How do you calculate differences between times?

In this video, I have shown how to register/run/execute any class as an artisan command in Laravel. Laravel has a very easy way to do this.

As a project grows it becomes advantageous to break down its monolythical app/ folder into smaller chunks called modules. You know, to keep things structured and stuff

This video will show you how to use cache in Laravel. The cache is the act of transparently storing data for future use in an attempt to make applications run faster.

Stoplight Platform is a series of tools that makes API design and documentation super easy. Their Studio product is an OpenAPI editor. Prism allows you to create a mock HTTP server to generate sample data based on your design specification.

Good day friends!

Today in this tutorial we learn how to Generate laravel timezone list in dropdown. Basically more then admin projects we need to user timezone so we can show to start date, end date, created_at, updated_at or other time fields.

Here we'll look at how we can introduce "slots" into our own custom Blade directives to capture anything between an opening and ending directive. In the process, we'll build a simple directive to render Markdown for us in Blade.

Hi, I’m Valerio, software engineer and CTO at Inspector. About one year ago one of our accounts on an external platform has been hacked. Our credit card was attached to this account so we had to warn the bank to block it.

In this article, you'll learn how to set up reCAPTCHA v3 in your Laravel project. This can be a bit tricky, so I'll help you simplify the process here. The new version, V3, has many improvements over previous versions thanks to the new captcha challenges.

When using the Eloquent ORM, you will note there is a lot of magic going around. With that bunch of logic behind the scenes, it’s normal for an IDE to just not understand what’s going on. Most of the problems with writing PHP comes from documenting that type of magic.

Readers of my previous article noticed that I used the strict_type declaration and asked me what it does. In this article I will explain what it does and why I started to love using it. PHP has never really been a language with strict typing.

Laravel 8.x recently introduces some new relation methods that simplify checking relationship's existence with a single, simple where condition attached to the relationship query.

With Laravel when we dispatch Queue Job asynchronously, the job is added to the queue then we have no control over it anymore. So I find a way to take control of the job, to either remove or process jobs from the queue. Let's Start!

Rich Text Laravel integrates the Trix Editor with Laravel and is inspired by the Action Text gem from Rails. The package's readme has plenty of examples and instructions on how to get started.

In this series, we'll be exploring Laravel Blade, how it works and the internals that make it work.

Laravel recently introduced the ability to detect n+1 issues caused by lazily loading Eloquent relationships.

Laravel's Validator makes it simple to validate a request's file field as an image using the 'image' rule, and you can hack together rules for validating a video by restricting MIME types.

Greetings everyone! PHP 8.1 has reached the first release candidate and the list of changes has been finalized. We’ll see at least 5 more release candidates before the final release, which is planned for the end of November.

In this live stream I'll update workshopsbyjmac.com using Shift. A recent server upgrade to PHP 8 has reminded me this old site needs to be upgraded.

If you are into Crypto then chances are you have heard about NFT, especially after the incidents like Beeple sold his art for $69 million dollars or this friendship meme. NFT is usually considered is suitable for arts like pictures only but this is not true.

I just can’t remember where I learned this technique. But anyway, I’ll share it. On this blog, the ID and the slug are part of posts URLs. It looks like https://hello-world.test/blog/1/foo.

Today I want to share the birth of a new project with the Laravel community: Artisan School. The primary goal is to provide high-quality Laravel screencasts where I mix the Laravel documentation with real-life examples.

In this post, you’ll learn how you can use Laravel Telescope to monitor and debug your Laravel project. It can help you to turn 500 internal server errors you might get with asynchronous AJAX calls, into stack traces that help you to locate bugs.

If you seed your local database with model factories, you probably use the fresh faker library (as the original faker library has been deprecated). And if you need some random images to populate you pages, the faker library has your back.