Freelancing Course, Xdebug, Carbon and more

This is my course for those who want to learn Laravel from scratch. It's available on my Teachable page, but I also decided to release it on YouTube.

This lesson is about Inertia user data from the auth session

The last lesson in this course is about Inertia user permissions, both from the front-end and back-end

One free lesson from my new course "Lessons From My 15 Years Of Freelancing"

Today I'm answering a question from the comment section, about how to estimate the projects, if you get a direct question from the client: "How much would it cost?"

A very long 3,000-word post for those who haven't started with automated testing. It's easy and it's worth it.

Sometimes, you may want to make sure that multiple types of resources are available at a same root wildcard path on your applications website.

The Laravel team released 9.9 with a configurable pluralizer, getAllTables() support for SQLite and SQLServer, an Eloquent Builder convenience method, the ability to call throw() in a PendingRequest, and more.

CodeIgniter’s routing is setup in such a way that you can create a set of routes that are only available or usable in a specific environment.

I'm proud to announce that our new premium course on writing readable PHP is now available. It's called Writing Readable PHP.

Quick 2-minute video explanation.

Laravel has a great eventing system. It allows you to dispatch events and attach a set of event listeners to that specific event which are run automatically. They can run synchronously or asynchronously (by running in the queue).

Laravel provides several solutions out of the box to handle concurrency attacks. Some of these include One of the easiest means for a malicious user to exploit your an in this manner is when the user can be logged into a single account on multiple devices.

In this video, we will be looking at 3 new things that are added to the latest version of Laravel which is v9.8.0

You may configure each driver in the config files with multiple API keys. API keys will be chosen randomly per HTTP request. If you have elected to use retry functionality, the key will be rehydrated on every try.

In this video I show how to enable and set-up Xdebug within the Laravel Sail Docker environment.

The wonderful thing about Laravel is that, if there’s something specific you need to accomplish, then there’s probably a tool that will help you get there.

To illustrate this, let’s leverage Laravel Breeze and Laravel Socialite in this Larabit to build a fully functioning registration system

Use multiple .envs files and have a chain of precedence for the environment variables in these different .envs files. Use the .env file in a custom way to manipulate environment variables by domain (multi-tenant). The use of this package happens by manipulating the .envs files in the project.

S.O.L.I.D is a set of principles to have good software design practices introduced by Robert J. Martin. The SOLID principles apply to any object-oriented language, but here we are going to focus on what they mean in PHP & Laravel applications.

I've been working and experimenting a lot lately with Carbon, the sublime PHP date and time utility library. I've tweeted a lot of Carbon tips and decided to collect all these tips into a permanent article. If you're using Laravel, Carbon is included in the framework by default.

InertiaJS is one of the fastest-growing JavaScript frameworks that help you make powerful, single-page apps. It comes included as one of the choices in Laravel Jetstream, a starter kit to help you build apps faster.

Things that should be easy can sometimes cause a massive headache for days. Like laravel websockets. Even with all these fancy libraries, it can be tricky to get it working. Believe me, I have wasted lots of time on these things before I managed to get them to work.