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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!

PHP 8.4 is expected to drop on November 21, 2024. Let's review the known new features and changes.

It's easy to use in development, just do bun run dev like if it was npm. But for the deployment, I did have to do some research. Let me share my findings it with you.

A few different methods for querying Laravel Eloquent's Many to Many relationships to filter results.

Take a time machine back to the 90s and watch a MS DOS disk defragmenter process your PHPUnit tests! 

I struggled for a long time to find a good way to represent settings in my Laravel apps. spatie/laravel-data solves this for me with strong types and Eloquent casting.

Short URL v7.7.0 brings some performance improvements and the ability to define a custom database connection for the package's models.

In this article, we wire the checkbox selection of rows of a table, and wire "updates" to each row with Livewire's all-new, wire:stream directive!

Yes! I created my very first package. In this video, we'll go over installing and using it. With this package, you can get all conversion rates based on a certain currency or get a direct conversion rate between 2 currencies. There is also a function that takes in a certain value that needs to be converted. For example 150 euros to dollars. You can find the package here: https://github.com/BurtDS/cash-converter Be sure to give it a star. :-)

We will look at a couple of common scenarios where adding a couple of lines to your tests can future-proof your application from data loss when using Model Observers.

Writing tests to validate behaviour in a multi-tenancy, multi-database app can be challenging. "Lock wait timeout" errors, or transactions cleaned up in one db and not another - it can be very frustrating! Fortunately, Laravel has a way to support db transactions across multiple databases.

Here are a few tips and tricks that I have learnt along the way to help optimize your database queries in Laravel.