Freek Van der Herten's blog on Laravel, PHP and AI

Getting information about all the models in your Laravel app original

Sep 7th 2022 by Freek Van der Herten – 2 minute read

I'm proud to announce that our team has released a new small package: spatie/laravel-model-info. Let's take a look at what this package can do.

Testing Randomness of PHP Random Number Functions

Sep 5th 2022 – php.watch

Let's take a look at the different ways to generate a random number in PHP.

Fill Gaps in Statistical Time Series Results

Sep 2nd 2022 – sqlfordevs.com

Pretty cool that you can achieve this by executing a query, and without application logic.

How to Produce High-Quality Programming Screencasts

Sep 1st 2022 – laracasts.com

Good tips by Jeffrey Way

Learning Laravel: Assets and Authentication

Aug 26th 2022 – tighten.com - submitted by Jamison Valenta

Looking for a fun way to dive deeper into Laravel that's not just a to-do list tutorial? Our "Learning Laravel" series by Kristin Collins is exactly what you've been missing!

A preview of Oh Dear's upcoming redesign

Aug 26th 2022 – ohdear.app

One of our goals for this year is to bring the UI of Oh Dear to the next level. Behind the scenes, our team is working hard on a complete rewrite of our marketing website and app.

Making a complete file uploader with progressbar using Livewire and Alpinejs

Aug 26th 2022 – sinnbeck.dev - submitted by René Sinnbeck

Build a file uploader that supports drag and drop and file selection, has a progressbar, filename preview and file removal.

Stop mocking about: Event Dispatcher

Aug 17th 2022 – doeken.org - submitted by Doeke Norg

It's time to replace your mocked event dispatchers with a real one.

Catching Up Laravel

Aug 16th 2022 – tighten.com - submitted by Jamison Valenta

If you're running a Laravel application in the 5's, have a legacy application bootstrapped inside Laravel, don't have any tests, or are staring in silent terror at just how long ago your production server's PHP version hit its end-of-life, this post is for you!

Is COUNT(*) slow in MySQL?

Aug 12th 2022 – aaronfrancis.com - submitted by Aaron Francis

Spoiler: it is optimized to be fast, and you should use it.

Scaling Laravel to 100M+ jobs and 30,000 requests/minute

Aug 11th 2022 – mateusguimaraes.com - submitted by Mateus Guimarães

Learn how I was able to easily scale an application to handle hundreds of millions of jobs using nothing but Laravel, Redis and MySQL

Experimentally compiling PHP code to Rust

Aug 9th 2022 – ryangjchandler.co.uk - submitted by Ryan Chandler

A blog post about an experiment that converts PHP to Rust and is capable of generating native binaries.

Deprecated dynamic properties in PHP 8.2

Aug 9th 2022 – stitcher.io - submitted by Brent

You might be afraid of this change, but most likely this won't affect you.

The difference between Traits, Interfaces, and Abstract Classes in PHP

Aug 8th 2022 – aschmelyun.com - submitted by Andrew Schmelyun

If you've been working with PHP regularly, chances are you've run across an Interface, Trait, or Abstract Class. At first glance, they might appear to have a few similarities between them, and it can be hard to make out their differences and use cases.

To display that list, a lot of queries were used. With a couple of minor adjustments, I could reduce the number of queries needed to just a single one, solving the performance problem.

In this small blog post, I'd like to share one of the techniques I used.

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