Using Laravel's new Query Builder Upsert feature
– atymic.dev - submitted by atymic – Edit
Overview of the new upsert feature in Laravel 8.10, how to use it and some tips.
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PHP8's Weak maps explained
– platform.sh – Edit
Larry Garlfriend explains how you can use PHP 8's weak maps to implement a self cleaning cache. Pretty sweet!
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On Issue Bumping
A nice, concise post by Sindre Sorhus on when to issue bump and when not to.
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PHP be all like: that nonexistent class be cool
– timacdonald.me – Edit
In this blogpost, Tim MacDonald warns that PHP doesn't give you any warning when using ::class on a class that does not exist.
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Selling digital products using Laravel part 10: Miscellaneous interesting tidbits + outro original
by Freek Van der Herten – 7 minute read – Edit
We've already covered a lot of ground in this series. Let's finish by highlighting some miscellaneous interesting tidbits.
Selling digital products using Laravel part 9: Serving ads on GitHub original
by Freek Van der Herten – 7 minute read – Edit
Our company has created a lot of open-source packages. At the moment of writing, we have over 200 packages, which have been downloaded nearly 100 million times. Because we think the package users might be interested in our paid offerings as well, we've put a small ad in the readme of each repo. In this blogpost I'll explain how we manage these ads using Laravel Nova and S3.
Selling digital products using Laravel part 8: Mailing updates and news using Mailcoach original
by Freek Van der Herten – 6 minute read – Edit
We'd like to stay in touch with the people interested in our products by sending them emails when we got some news on an upcoming product, or when we are running a promo for existing products. To handle subscriptions and send out emails, we use our home-grown Laravel package Mailcoach. Let's take a look at how we use Mailcoach ourselves.
Selling digital products using Laravel part 7: Importing package documentation from GitHub original
by Freek Van der Herten – 5 minute read – Edit
On our site you'll find the documentation of our bigger bigger packages, like laravel-medialibrary, laravel-backup, laravel-event-sourcing, ... Let's take a look at how that works.
Selling digital products using Laravel part 6: Building a video section using Vimeo original
by Freek Van der Herten – 5 minute read – Edit
On our website, we have a video section. All our videos uploaded to and handled via Vimeo where we have a Pro subscription. We chose Vimeo because it has an excellent widget to display videos, it converts our videos very fast, and it has a nice API to work with. Let's take a look at how Vimeo is integrated in our site.
Selling digital products using Laravel part 4: Making a sale using Paddle original
by Freek Van der Herten – 9 minute read – Edit
Selling digital products using Laravel part 3: Giving customers access to private repositories on Github original
by Freek Van der Herten – 3 minute read – Edit
Selling digital products using Laravel part 2: Logging in using GitHub original
by Freek Van der Herten – 4 minute read – Edit
Selling digital products using Laravel part 1: Intro + a tour of spatie.be original
by Freek Van der Herten – 5 minute read – Edit
On our Laravel powered company website we sell digital products: video courses, e-books, and software packages. Behind the scenes we use Laravel, Paddle, Vimeo, the GitHub API and a couple of other things.
We've open-sourced our site. You'll find the actual code we have deployed in the spatie-be repo on GitHub. In this blog post, I'll guide you through the code.
Transpiling PHP code from 8.0 to 7.x via Rector
– blog.logrocket.com - submitted by Leonardo Losoviz – Edit
This is an intro to how transpiling works for PHP: Similar to how Babel compiles JS to make it compatible with older browsers, Rector can convert PHP code across versions. So we can use PHP 7.4 features (typed properties, arrow functions), and deploy it to PHP 7.1.
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Selling digital products using Laravel part 5: Using Satis to install private packages original
by Freek Van der Herten – 7 minute read – Edit
Some of our products, like Mailcoach and Media Library Pro, are PHP packages for which people can buy a time-limited license. Of course, we want customers to be able to install our paid packages using Composer. Our paid packages are not registered on Packagist, because Packagist is meant to be used for free packages, and there's no way to handle licenses. Let's take a look at how we can solve this using Satis.
Gracefully deprecating foreign keys for a polymorphic relationship
– timacdonald.me - submitted by Tim Mac – Edit
Here's how to handle moving from a classic foreign key constrained relationship, to a polymorphic relationship in Eloquent, without impacting the end user.
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How to run over 30k tests in under 5 minutes
– blog.mollie.com – Edit
Paratest is an extension on top of PhpUnit that adds support for parallel testing. For our unit tests, we could just add Paratest and it works without any configuration!
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A conversation with Christoph Rumpel original
by Freek Van der Herten – 1 minute read – Edit
This week, Christoph Rumpel and I took some time to catch up. We talk a bit on programming, what's going on in our lives, and more. We streamed on our conversation on YouTube.
The complete guide to Laravel front-end scaffolding
– samuelstancl.me – Edit
There are many things you can use for front-end scaffolding in Laravel. That can make picking one tough. This blogposts walks you through all the options
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Static webhosting benchmark: AWS, Google, Firebase, Netlify, GitHub & Cloudflare
– www.savjee.be – Edit
Xavier Decuyper researched which provider offers the fastest static webhosting.
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