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When adding a form to a public site, there's a risk that spam bots will try to submit it with fake values. We recently released a new package, called laravel-honeypot, that can detect these spammy requests. How honeypots work The majority of spam bots are pretty dumb. You can thwart most of them by…
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? You can use array destructuring to swap values between variables pic.twitter.com/dxdIipgE1M
— Brandon Dail (@aweary) December 28, 2018
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Kent C. Dodds wrote a cool post how an upcoming React feature, called Hooks, works on the hood.
React’s upcoming useState hook relies on array destructuring, let’s dive in and see how that feature works.
https://blog.kentcdodds.com/react-hooks-array-destructuring-fundamentals-952fbfd57ea
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Christopher Rumpel launched a new video series on how Laravel works on the hood.
Laravel Core Adventures is a video series which explains how Laravel works under the hood. You will get several videos on different difficulty levels to learn about each topic. The first videos below are about the Laravel request lifecycle. Expect more to come when the full site is released in early 2019.
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TIL: $PIPESTATUS lets you access the exit code of a command used in a series of pipes in Bash pic.twitter.com/eRVrPQwnve
— Mattias Geniar (@mattiasgeniar) January 2, 2019
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In this fantastic talk given at the uncon of Laracon EU 2018, Chris Brown gives many actionable tips for aspiring and experienced speakers.
by Freek Van der Herten – 9 minute read – Edit
Now that 2018 is coming to a close, a lot of awesome people have written a recap post. Here's mine! The most significant change on a personal level is that my girlfriend an I bought a house in Ghent. Together with our two kids, we moved this summer, and we now live in an awesome house that's very…
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Over at the Oh Dear! blog, my buddy Mattias described how we use Gitlab CI to test our app.
That's why we're releasing our Gitlab CI pipeline that is optimized for Laravel applications. It contains all the elements you'd expect: building (composer, yarn & webpack), database seeding, PHPUnit & copy/paste (mess) detectors & some basic security auditing of our 3rd party dependencies.
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by Freek Van der Herten – 8 minute read – Edit
In an application I was working on I wanted to implement automated tweets. Of course, this logic should also be tested. In this blogpost I'd like to show you how you can easily handcraft your own mocks. Setting things up Let's first take a look at how you can tweet something in PHP. We're going to…
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Want to upgrade to the PHP release? Here are some instructions written down by Colin O' Dell.
PHP 7.3 has been released, bringing some great new features to the language such as trailing commas in function calls, throwing errors when JSON parsing fails, array_key_first() / array_key_last() functions, and much more! Here's a brief guide on how to install PHP 7.3 on Linux, Windows, and OS X:
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Implementing the change-password-url spec in Laravel (aka: it's really dead simple) https://t.co/ow1PNMqecy pic.twitter.com/kTJK6Jq5rn
— /dev/eloper (@mattiasgeniar) December 7, 2018
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In a post on Laravel News, Tim MacDonald shares how you can use our valuestore package to power a settings function.
I really like the simplicity this package introduces to enable you to store some loose values. I’ve always felt storing this kind of data in the database with some sort of key / value pair setup was never quite right.
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Dennis Smink wrote a nice post on how you can use our backup package to backup your application to Google Drive. He includes all steps necessary to authenticate with Google Drive.
Backups are important, period. You will be needing these once your server or server provider suddenly dies. In this tutorial I will cover how to setup Google Drive backup, with Spatie’s backup package, Googles Flysystem and Laravel.
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Here's how Mattias Geniar swapped out laravel-echo-server in favor of laravel-websockets at Oh Dear!
We have just finished our transition from a websocket server based on laravel-echo-server to one that is fully driven by PHP: laravel-websockets. In this post, we'll highlight why and how we made that move.
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My colleague Seb wrote a cool package that adds tags and classes to code blocks in html, so they can be highlighted with css.
I created a spatie/commonmark-highlighter package that supports higlighting with CommonMark. After you register two custom renderers, all code blocks will receive a set of tags and classes, so they're already prepped to be highlighted by CSS when your content arrives in the browser.
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laravel-websockets is a Laravel package that can handle the server side of WebSockets entirely. It completely replaces the need for a service like Pusher or a JavaScript-based laravel-echo-server. It has extensive documentation and a demo application you can play with. Marcel, developer and co-owner…
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Tim MacDonald demonstrates how you can add logic to a custom collection.
Laravel collections have become an essential part of my codebases and I couldn't imagine working without them. I have found giving collections the voice of the problem domain makes for a much nicer API when compared to the generic collection methods.
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At this years dot js conference, Joost Lubach gave an incredible lightning talk on various sync and async concepts.
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?Did you know you can prevent registration of register routes or enable the verification route in your @laravelphp routes file when using the auth scaffolding?
— Michael Dyrynda (@michaeldyrynda) November 29, 2018
Pass register or verify keys with boolean values to control this. pic.twitter.com/u8ysLHsppo
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4 years ago I started this blog as a tool to share interesting blogposts I found around the web. On each anniversary of my blog I published some interesting stats on the blog. This year is no different.
Between November 2017 and november 2018 this blog served 728 243 pages, a good increase compared to the 591 113 pageview from the previous period. There are 1 217 published posts, of which 195 I've written myself. The others ones are links to other blogs.
Last year in November I moved this blog from WordPress to a custom made Laravel app. A few months ago I removed the handcrafted admin section in favor of Laravel Nova. I'm really glad that I now have full control over my blog and not tied to WordPress anymore. I also opensourced the Laravel app. You can find the source code in this repo on GitHub.
These were the ten most visited posts of the past 12 months:
I do hope you still enjoy reading this blog!
