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Laravel validation Rule using [OpenAI Moderation API](https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/moderation). Gives you a way to validate your form requests for inappropriate content.

Laravel Exchange Rates v6 now has support for multiple exchange rate APIs, improved types, and much more.

How to find and replace text in Statamic Bard using Statamic Bard Mutator addon

A guide on how to utilise the TALL stack with Model Broadcasting and Websockets to build a simple public chat room app.

One caveat in Livewire (version 1 and 2) is that only public properties remain state between Livewire interactions. This shouldn’t be a problem, at least not if you’re aware of how a potential hacker would abuse this.

By default, your logs on the Google Cloud Platform will all have the same severity level. Let me show you how to change that.

A short 6 minute video explaining what invokable controllers are in Laravel, how to create them, and why you'd want to use them.

As developers, we lose a lot of benefits by testing after the fact.

A quick way of disabling Composer's default script process timeout of 300 seconds (5 minutes). Easy to overlook in the docs.

We will crack the controversy of the repository pattern in Laravel. The good and the bad, and what alternatives we can use to build a maintainable codebase.

The LoB principle dictates that the behavior of a unit of code should be as obvious as possible by looking only at that unit of code. But I think something is missing from this discussion.

If you are using Promise.all(), you are probably missing a super easy to implement opportunity for huge performance gains!

Sometimes you figure out why the uploaded image is not progressive, while you use a media-library to handle the upload. This check will help you figure out if tools are installed on your server.

Here, we will be looking at what to do if we have two or more traits with the same method name. We will be looking at how we can solve the same method name collision.

Tighten programmer Alison shares an intro to terminable middleware in Laravel. This type of middleware does work *after* the HTTP response is sent to the browser. Learn when to use it, and a some gotchas.

In this video you'll learn how to build a Public API. We're using, Caching, rate limiting, API resources and we'll have a look at Laravel Telescope. We'll also use PostMan to test our API.

This post covers the logic needed to discover definitions in a PHP project and how they're represented in a static analyser.

A new series on my blog where I'll be writing a static analyser for PHP in Rust and showcasing the steps and development as I go.

Read about the Javascript library "collect.js" that provides a Laravel-like syntax for dealing with arrays. The article also covers some examples of commonly-used methods.

We will extend the Laravel framework with very minimal modifications. Using custom SMTP settings is really easy to achieve.