My First Ever Laravel PR Merged! (and 30+ Laravel Tips)

This is, weirdly, my first-ever contribution to the Laravel framework itself, after creating content for many years.

Another self-test opportunity for you guys, do you know everything about Laravel DB Migrations?

Are you still on PHP 7.x? Let me convince you to upgrade, maybe you will like those syntax "treats" from PHP 8.0.

I decided to explain a bit deeper, what are the potential values and usages of the first five default variables in the default .env.example.

This time I'm doing a "surprise" code review for a person from Twitter and giving 3 tips related to APIs and to the repository pattern.

In this video, I'm answering a question from the comments, helping to write a certain Eloquent query.

In this video, I decided to compile the main pieces of advice, divided into different stages of my web-dev career.

In this video we are going to work with laravel and vuejs to create dependent dropdown with composition api.
Laravel vue js 3 composition api.
Laravel vue 3
Laravel vuejs
Laravel Livewire Dropdown
Laravel livewire vs vue js

Been working with Laravel and Vue for a solid 5 years now. I’m pretty well equipped but haven’t really built or worked on anything outside of my work-related projects.

In one of my applications at work, we're storing the latitude and longitude of approximately 6 million properties across the state of Texas. Oftentimes our users will need to search for properties that are near each other.

In this post I will show you how to take advantage of Doctrine, which is a library that is included in laravel as well as in other frameworks, and it allows you to manage your php  migration files.

In this article I would like to describe how you can refactor a method that contains multiple if-statements by creating objects with a single responsibility, each making their own assertions. Most functions you write, need precondition checks.

Laravel Formatters is a package that provides a collection of classes you can use to standardize data formats in your Laravel application.

We will be using Laravel Installer to create a new project of the latest Laravel version. Once installed you will need to run your project using a php server. I use Laravel Valet. It is easy to setup and use.

In this video I am explaining in a few minutes how to set-up debugging with PHP and Xdebug running in Docker and PhpStorm.

WE will learn how to build a laravel multiple language website. We are not going to use localization. Localization would time consuming. We are going to use Laravel route group for this purpose. Laravel Route Groups make it easy to build multiple language website.

Check out the tut for route groups

Authentication is one of the most important parts of any web application. Handling authentication between mobile application and server side can be tricky and demand more secure approach. One of the best approach is using JSON Web Token (JWT).

When reaching an API, sending outgoing HTTP requests can take time. If you are using the Laravel HTTP client, you can implement asynchronous requests to significantly improve performance.

My Friend Sam Rowden and I were recently pairing on a project of his for a client, and came across an interesting requirement: serial numbers. The client wanted serial numbers to have the following format: [type]-[subtype]-[5 digit incrementing integer]. So, for example, "C-VB-00001", "C-VB-00002".

In the previous chapter we build a web application where we can log in, we can protect routes from unauthetnicated user. Before we begin to add new functionality to our app, we should fresh up our UI, becouse, well, how do I say, it’s a little bit flat.

There comes a time when you would be in need of obfuscating a certain part of the string. For instance, to obfuscate the credit card’s digits except the last four or to mask specific parts of the phone number or email.

One of the biggest challenges when writing tests is maintaining a readable suite over time. When I first started writing tests, I would place everything in the root of the tests directory. As you can imagine, once your test suite begins to grow, this can quickly get messy.

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In this video we are going to work with laravel and vuejs to create dependent dropdown with composition api.
Laravel vue js 3 composition api.
Laravel vue 3
Laravel vuejs

In this series, I show you new features and improvements to the Laravel framework since the original release of version 8. Last week, I wrote about the Collection class. This week is about the Database and Eloquent features in Laravel 8.

Laravel World is a package providing a list of the countries, states, cities, currencies, and timezones.

In this 3 part series, you will be learning how to create RESTful CRUD APIs in PHP & Laravel, Test and Document them using Swagger. The APIs we will be building will be for a Book Shop. With these APIs, users will be able to Create, Read, Update & Delete books in the Shop.