Latest Laravel/PHP Articles
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Giving collections a voice
I gave a talk on this topic at LaraconAU, 2019. It covers all the ways custom collections can improve your systems design and contains some more guidance on whe...
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Loading Eloquent relationship counts
It is often useful to show the number of related models a given instance has, but not actually need any specific information about the related models, just how...
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Versatile response objects in Laravel
I've been tinkering with a new way of returning various response formats by introducing dedicated response objects to my Laravel web applications.
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My feature test suite setup
In this post I am going to run through my setup, but by no means do I believe this is the best way of doing things. This is what I've landed on after some trial...
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Overriding Laravel Mix during testing in 5.8
On a project I am currently working on I ran into an issue due to the global url($asset) helper function. In my feature tests I was hitting a route that used th...
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Backup multiple sites and frameworks with Laravel Backup
Laravel Backup is a fantastic package brought to us by the team at Spatie, and is only one of the many great packages they have in the wild.
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Foreign key validation rule
I'm digging it. It's just a simple extension on the exists rule, but I think it is killer. When I started with Laravel, I always found it quick and easy to util...
Digital Ocean
Providing developers and businesses a reliable, easy-to-use cloud computing platform of virtual servers (Droplets), object storage ( Spaces), and more.
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Laravel Cashier: a helping hand
Laravel Cashier is an "expressive, fluent interface to Stripe's subscription billing services". I have really enjoyed using Cashier on my latest project and I t...
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Enforcing valid data access from a form request object
Making sure you validate incoming request data from the user is crucial for security and ensuring your app stays in a valid state. Validating data is easy peasy...
Recently I was building out a multi-tenant API using Laravel, and ran into a problem with my tests. I was getting a Lock wait timeout error on even the simplest...
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Technology didnât have to glow
Technology didn’t have to glow. […] There were devices that simply did what they were for, without demanding attention. I've always had a soft-spot for e-ink sc...
In the vast e-commerce landscape, offering a seamless payment experience is a critical aspect that can make or break the user's journey. Mollie, a prominent pay...
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Querying Laravel Eloquent's Many to Many relationships
This post is part of a series of posts about Laravel Eloquent many to many relationships. A while ago I wrote about how to use a many to many relationship in La...
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Stefan Zweifel on storing user preferences in a Laravel application
Stefan Zweifel explains how he stores user preferences in a Laravel application using spatie/laravel-data.