Latest Laravel/PHP Articles
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When you are working with a one-to-many relationship, it is sometimes the case that a particular instance on the "many" side of the relationship is flagged as u...
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Git rebase: A love story
At work I decided to show git rebase the love it deserves with a brown bag session and had a lot of fun doing it so thought I'd record it and share it publicly....
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Follow the Eloquent road
This talk was given at the 2020 LaraconUS / Online conference. You can find all the talks from previous years in the Laracon Online showcase. When you take the...
Glimpse
Glimpse streamlines Laravel development by seamlessly deploying GitHub pull requests to preview environments with the help of Laravel Forge.
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Using Laravel's Policies and Route Model Binding without Eloquent
I made an assumption. I, for no reason at all, always assumed Laravel's Policy authorization and Route Model Binding functionality were only meant to be used wi...
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Sharing PHP-CS-Fixer rules across projects and teams
Read the full article on Laravel News.
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Avoid false positives by utiliting magic values in your tests
In this video we look at how you can avoid false positives in your tests by making use of magic values. I'll show you some tests that seem to be passing, but in...
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Gracefully deprecating foreign keys for a polymorphic relationship
When migrating a classic foreign key constrained relationship, such as belongsTo, over to a polymorphic relationship, you've got to be very sure you've covered...
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Dedicated query builders for Eloquent models
This blog post is an in-depth walk though of a tweet I sent out a few weeks ago. You can probably get everything you need from the tweet and the comments on it,...
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Rethinking Laravel's middleware argument API
I have been using a helper trait to make working with middleware arguments feel nicer. I'm going to walk through the current way we can pass arguments to middle...
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Query scopes, meet action scopes
I just read Freek's blog post on the void return type (which you should check out), and it reminded me of this pattern I dig and thought I'd write up a quick po...
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The case of the Laravel TestCase
I saw a conversation on Twitter the other day discussing how Laravel was slowing down a test suite. I decided I wanted to dig into this and see if there was any...
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PHP be all like: that nonexistent class be cool
I was recently helping out on an open source issue where the developer was having trouble catching exceptions the library was throwing.
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Simple performance monitoring a Laravel Forge deployed application
Maintaining a performant web application is an on-going task. On launch you might have requests flying out the door at maximum speed.
