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Custom collections in Laravel allow you to add model-specific methods, making it easier to handle groups of models in a more expressive way. This is especially useful for managing complex data like e-commerce orders, where you can implement methods for filtering, calculating totals, or applying bulk actions, keeping your controllers clean and focused.

Laravel's accessor caching with shouldCache() boosts performance by preventing repetitive computations for expensive accessors. Additionally, you can work with complex data like addresses using value objects, and Laravel will auto-sync changes back to the model. This improves code efficiency and maintainability, especially for structured data.

Laravel's AsStringable casting helps make string handling in your models smoother and more powerful, letting you use methods like chaining to clean up your code. This makes tasks like formatting titles or generating slugs much easier while improving code readability.

contributed by Tomás López , this validation rule rejects all the registration and email update attempts from any disposable email available. The approach is simaple.

Optimize Laravel factories to create dependent relationships without creating extra database records.

A detailed look at how Laravel's defer() helper works.

Quickly build a docker-compose file for your Laravel/PHP, django/Python, and express/Node.js project using presets or custom settings.

Short URL v8.1.2 fixes a bug where an exception was being thrown if the `short_urls.id` field was being returned as a string from the database.

Multi-tenancy in web applications

Laravel Exchange Rates v7.6.0 adds support for the "VES" currency symbol and updates the test suite.

How to customize Filament notifications to show live progression of a task

I use VSCode to write PHP, but there's a handful of small papercuts I've run into that trip me up. One of the things VSCode excels at is how easy it is to extend - so I wrote an extension that solves a handful of these problems for me and brings some powerful code generation and refactoring tools to the table - TemPHPest. Yes PHPStorm has great all-around support and is a wonderful IDE, but with tools like TemPHPest and the upcoming Laravel VSCode extension, VSCode is more viable than ever.

Learn how to limit the eager-loaded relationships on Laravel models. We'll also take a look at the underlying SQL queries that are generated to achieve this functionality.

To improve my skill set, I decided it might be fun to create a real-time chat application where users can create rooms and send messages. Laravel Reverb seemed like the perfect way to achieve this, so I started building. Once I had completed a proof of concept and was ready to deploy it, however, the trouble started for me.

Vue 3.5 has just dropped this week, and it's packed with some nice features and improvements. I have been digging through the release notes and playing around with the new features, so let me glance over the highlights!

See how to easily modify and override methods found in the framework's Request class in order to handle specific routes with sizeable payloads.