I've been using PhpStorm for quite some time now, but never took the effort to fix a few minor annoyances I had with it. Getting rid of the default comment for new PHP files First up, when creating a new PHP file or class you PhpStorm will add this comment block like this by default: /** * Created…
?️ Use "declarative" (the state of the thing) names for your data attributes in Vue over "imperative" (an action to take on the thing) pic.twitter.com/LJk2MRT0Bw
— Caleb Porzio (@calebporzio) November 19, 2018
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Here's a video of Surma having technical problems while presenting his State of Houdini talk. Luckily Jake Archibald and others "help" him out ? No matter how well you prepare a talk, you can always have technical difficulties. If you handle the failure gracefully, the public won't mind.…
Caleb Porzio, developer at Tighten Co, recorded a video that explains how to publish a Vue component as a package
If you're like me, you have a handful of useful Vue components you use between different projects. Many times I've wanted to publish an individual Vue component to NPM for myself and others to access more easily.
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This year Laracon AU was held for the very first time. According to what I read on Twitter Michael Dyrynda did an awesome job organising it.
The organisation was so kind to record all talks. They are now available on YouTube. You'll find all talks in this playlist.
Below you can see the talk titled "Abusing Laravel for Fun and Profit" by David Hemphill
At Spatie we have a tv screen against the wall that displays a dashboard. This dashboard displays the tasks our team should be working on, important events in the near future, which tasks each of our team members should be working on, what music they are listening to, and so on. Here's what it looks…
Q: how many api calls do you need to do in #PHP to determine if the ☀️ is up?
— Freek Van der Herten (@freekmurze) November 14, 2018
A: 0 pic.twitter.com/glaZQZ4mQ9
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Let's take a look at how you can define routes to controllers in Laravel. By default you can do it like this: Route::get('my-route', 'MyController@index'); This will look for the MyController class in the App\Http\Controllers namespace. This default namespace is set up in Laravel's…
The past few years I visited and spoke at a lot of PHP conferences. PHP Benelux, Laracon EU and US, PHP UK Conference, PHP World are only a few of the conferences I thoroughly enjoyed. Visiting those conferences can be recommended to anyone interested in PHP. Regardless of which level you're at…
There are three ways of loading relationships in Laravel. Tim MacDonald, a freelance dev based in Sydney, explains them all.
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 many exist. In this scenario you do not want to load all of the related models into memory to count them, we want our database to do the heavy lifting for us. Laravel offers a number of ways to retrieve relationship counts.
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Invokables in PHP are classes that you can use as a function. They have been around since PHP 5.3 and have many interesting use cases. Here's a quick example. class Invokable { public function __invoke() { echo 'I have been invoked'; } } You can use it like this: // outputs 'I have been…
Woodworker/developer Jesse Schutt clearly explains how to use v-model properly on nested components.
Building a custom component that operates on chunks of data is easier than you may think. It involves understanding how Vue handles the input/update cycle and making a few changes to your component. Let’s start by taking a look at one approach for turning a standard component into a “controlled” component and then figure out how to nest them.
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Some solid advice from Adel Faiz: do not use a package for authorization unless you really need its functionalities. Laravel's default authorization capabilities are good enough for most use cases.
I don't want to say these packages are useless. They can be useful for projects which needs complicated authorization system, which should be customizable by customer later. Also some projects need dynamic permissions. For all other projects it's too heavy solution. Better to use simple code-based authorization.
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A couple of week ago I wrote a blogpost that contains all the software, hardware and settings I use. I've seen a couple of devs writing the same kind of post. Here are some of them:
Did you write down your setup as well? Post a link in the comments below! ?
The last couple of weeks soem strange Imagick errors popped up across all our servers. In a new blogpost my colleague Alex explains the cause and the fix.
Over the last few days we've had a couple of issues with Imagick and processing PDFs on our servers. As it turns out, these issues are caused by automatic security updates. Let's look into the issue and its solution.
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Oh Dear!, the monitoring service that my buddy Mattias and I run, now has the ability to auto import sites from Forge.
Forge recently introduced a feature called tags, whichs allows you to add custom tags to any server or site in Forge. We use those tags to determine which sites we should automatically add to your Oh Dear! Account. Every site or server tagged with oh-dear will be added. This allows you to still pick which sites should - or should not - get monitored.
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Nick Janetakis shares three tools that come in handy when developing locally.
When developing real world applications you tend to run into certain road blocks such as:
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Justin Jackson wrote a cool post on the benefits of public speaking.
As a geek, there's one skill that's helped me level-up professionally more than anything else: public speaking. Whether it's doing product demos, presenting an idea to my team, or being on a podcast, it's a skill I benefit from every day. But the biggest opportunities have come from giving talks.
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Laravel Nova is cool package to quickly create admin interfaces in a Laravel app. Unfortunately there's no support for multiple locales out of the box. A while ago we published a package called nova-translatable that makes any of the built in field types translatable. Using the package In order to…
Mattias explains a problem we recently encountered at Oh Dear with Telescope.
For Oh Dear!, we're using Laravel Telescope as a convenient way of tracking/displaying exceptions, runs, ... It stores its exceptions in the database, so you can easily view them again. It stores those in a TEXT field in MySQL, which is limited to 2^16 bytes, or 65536 bytes. Some of our exceptions tend to be pretty long, and they were hitting this limit.
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