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Sometimes, no matter how senior you are, little issues like this can humble you. I recently faced a confusing issue where I was expecting a relationship to give me a User object, but instead, it just gave me a number! After two days of scratching my head, I finally figured out what went wrong.

Laravel 11.35.0 introduces the URI class simplifying URI handling with methods for schemes, hosts, paths, and more for clearer code.

Did you know you can use Google Sheets to power a JSON API, directly from the sheet, no servers required? Perfect for small app backends and quick prototypes!

Read about the #[RouteParameter] PHP attribute that you can use in Laravel to access route model-bound models in your form request classes. The article covers how to use the attribute and the problem it solves.

In this episode of the Quick Win Wednesday series, we're taking a look the Eloquent Fluent helper.

Learn about value objects, why they are useful and why it's better to use them over primitive values.

Complementary package for Laravel Mails, that show all your logged mails in a fancy UI inside Filament!

Laravel Mails can collect everything you might want to track about the mails that has been sent by your Laravel app.

Laravel 11.34.0 introduces Request::fluent() method by Steve Bauman, simplifying access to request data with a Fluent instance for cleaner, null-safe code.

In this episode of the Quick Win Wednesday series, we're playing around with 2 carbon functions to see which dates are closest of farthest from a given date.

Laravel 11.32.0 introduces Schedule Groups enabling grouping of related tasks, reducing redundancy and improving readability in scheduling.

With the release of PHP 8.4 on November 21, 2024, many new features are released. Though every feature deserves its own article, one that fascinated me the most is Asymmetric Visibility.

In this episode of the Quick Win Wednesday series, we're taking a look at diffInDaysFiltered().

Laravel scopes make queries much more readable, but they come with a lot of magic. Custom Query Builders fix this issue, let me show you how to use them.

Pie, new extension installer for PHP was released! Let’s have a look how we can install and use it in Docker builds.

Learn about data transfer objects, why they are useful and why it's better to use them over arrays.

Powerful Database Features You Didn't Know PhpStorm Had