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Mastering elation with the decorator foundation! Let's take a look at how we can leverage this simple, yet powerful design pattern in the context of a Laravel package.

Dates and Times in PHP can be tricky no matter what level of experience you have. There are so many formats, timezones and other types of intricacies. Let's debug an issue together to see working with Dates and Times are, quite simply - notorious!

In this first article of our new "Crwlr Recipes" series, we show how you can crawl any website fully (all pages) and extract the data of schema.org structured data objects from all its pages, with just a few lines of code.

Learn how to version your Laravel APIs properly in this walk through tutorial.

In this episode of the Quick Win Wednesday series, we're taking a look at wire:confirm, an easy way to get a confirmation of our user, before performing an action on crucial data in the database.

In one of the previous videos we've created Load More and Infinite scroll functionality in Livewire3 with Alpine.js. But grabbing extra data from the database could have used some optimisation for larger datasets.

Laravel Markable package allows you to easily add the markable feature to your application, as for example likes, bookmarks, favorites and so on.

In this video, I talk about using composer scripts to have project aliases to run scripts.

I was recently asked how I go about creating Laravel packages. I've documented everything from initial setup, creating a package, setting up a repo on GitHub, and publishing to Packagist.

Short URL v7.8.0 adds the ability to define custom fields when creating short URLs.

This article provides a guide on simplifying API integration in Laravel using the Http Facade, with a focus on building a reusable API request and client class.

Using Rector to have a WordPress plugin support both the recommended PHP versions (8.1 and 8.2) for WordPress 6.4, and the min version (7.0).

It's sometimes hard to find where your php.ini file is located. Here are 2 methods to help find the file on your system or server.

Out of the box Laravel has a wide variety of events that are fired inside your application by default. These events can help you with hooking into functionality and listen for when things are happening. This makes Laravel easily extensible without much effort.

Duplicate form submissions or requests can be a common issue in web applications, often leading to unintended consequences. Laravel offers a straightforward solution to prevent these duplicates by using atomic locks.

Favicon Fetcher now has a config field that can be used to override the `User-Agent` request header that is sent in all the package's HTTP requests.

Discover how we're using Cloudflare Workers to perform API authentication on the edge to make our infrastructure more cost-effective.

Although PHP Enumerations are meant to provide an easy and elegant solution to work with a predefined set of values, these classes are often misused, resulting in a lack of consistency due to the introduction of all sorts of methods that increase their complexity. In this article, we are going to go through some practices (both good and bad) with the goal of clarifying the understanding of these types of objects to help you build a more resilient and consistent codebase.

XML Wrangler is a simplistic PHP library designed to make reading and writing XML easier.

Muhammed's been working with Eloquent for over half a decade now, and it's time to share his next bag of tricks. You are guaranteed to learn something new!