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A comprehensive overview of sending emails with PHPMailer via Gmail SMTP and why it is advantageous to do so.

In this video we're creating factories and seeders. But we'll also seed data based on the available models to create real relations. We're also learning how to migrate your database and directly seed them by using the migrate:fresh --seed command.

By enabling 2 experimental features, my Docker development environment got 3 times faster.

Using queues in @laravelphp is great ... unless the queue has silently failed and you didn't even know about it 🚨 I'm going to show you a simple and lightweight strategy to notify you when a queue isn't processing jobs.

AI (Artificial Intelligence) is a trending topic in the programming space. It enables developers to do incredible things, and lots of startups build products around it.

Whether PHP is dead or not is a matter of numbers, not opinions. This article will provide you with essential statistics that will lead you to make better decisions.

Targeted content assertions using CSS selector expressions

With the help of this package you can cache the result of a closure in a life cycle of a request. You can gain enormously by avoiding duplicates code.

Larashared is a guide and a helper api in shared hosting environments where ssh access is not available.

When testing your views it can be tricky to check if everything is as expected. This package makes it easy to check if specific things exists in the DOM and has the correct attributes.

Tracking changes in a table or several tables for that matter can be essential for your application, and we are going to take a look on how to do that using only the MySQL/MariaDB database.

PHP 8.3 will be released in November 2023, and as usual, you need to be up to date with new features and breaking changes for easier transitions.

Handle Laravel API validation serving a multi-language app.

A comprehensive overview of Laravel's many safety features that can help you prevent painful mistakes.

The open-source log viewer package for Laravel has had some great updates in the last 2 months. Check them out!

Clean code with consistent formatting is easier to read. Writing code in a consistent way is hard. That is why I'm a big fan of tools that automate this process.

What if you don’t want to use the email relay services of Gmail SMTP or its alternatives? In this article, we’ll teach you how to set up a local SMTP server for MacOS, Linux and Windows and get rid of any email-sending dependencies.

The blog mentions various ways and resources that helps you with reducing the amount of times you have to debug (especially Laravel related).

Laravel 10 will be released on February 7, 2023. Its development is still ongoing. Let's dive into every relevant new feature we know about already.

A post detailing how you can use MySQL and Postgres functions inside SQLite. This is a great way to use SQLite as your testing DB, even when you use MySQL or Postgres specific functions in your code.