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PHPScraper now supports fetching and parsing of XML sitemaps, RSS-feeds and static search indexes. This helps to aggregate context such as URLs for further crawling. The documentation contains the typical use-cases.

How does logging work in Laravel. When do you need it, what types of logging are there, how can you configure it and what log levels can you use.

Laravel Translations UI provides a simple way to manage your translations in your Laravel application. It allows you to add, edit, delete and export translations, and it also provides a search functionality to find translations.

Today, an SPF record is a must-have DNS record for reliable email delivery. Check this guide to learn how SPF record works and how to create one for your domain!

Here, we will be looking at how we can convert a complex multi-join raw SQL query into Laravel query builder code.

Testing your views, yes I said, testing your views. This is something that is both boring and quite tricky to get right. Sure you can write a test that checks that a certain text is shown, or not shown according to what you want to show in your view. The reason for it being tricky to test your views is that the view is something that you as a backend developer doesn't really have that much control over, unless of course if you are a one-man team doing the full stack.

Email headers are an essential part of any email communication and serve various purposes, such as informational and practical. Learn how to analyze and use them to secure your emails.

Coming back from a two-week break here at the podcast, Benedikt and Benedicte talk about the progress they’re making and a few existential questions about shipping updates. How long should stuff take? What is good enough? How do you balance quality and speed?

Laravel package to easily dispaly Countries & Languages Flags in your Laravel Blade views.

A post outlining how you can use generators, and LazyCollections, to create better interfaces for paginating APIs.

Knowing which Laravel version you are running is important before you start writing code on a new project. There are multiple ways to do so.

We can easily get multiple aggregated data using multiple database requests. But here we will be looking at how to get these in one database request.

Nuno (Laravel Core Team Member) talks about his work-in-progress proposal that adds more PHP native types to Laravel v10.

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