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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.

Since v5.7, Laravel provides email verification out-of-the-box. Check out how it works, as well as alternative ways to set up and customize email verification.

This article covers details of how I moved my blog from Wordpress to Laravel

What is a database view, and how can we use it to make our code cleaner?

Have you ever had a huge list of values that the users needs to scroll through to get to the item they wanted, you know the classic `Country` dropdown, and for me who lives in Sweden will have to scroll through a load of countries to get to the desired one.

By default Laravel adds cookies to the response of your app. Sometimes you don't want Laravel to use any cookies, just because it doesn't need them, to improve caching or show your users your not storing any information about them - privacy wise.

A quick 8-minute video detailing some of the similarities (and differences) between two popular Laravel authentication packages.

An explanation on how I built the PHP package. This is one of the first packages I created and it might be useful to read when you just start.

KPHP is a PHP compiler. It compiles a limited subset of PHP to a native binary running faster than PHP.

Hey, We have open sourced our upgrade helper project to easily view changes between laravel versions. Hope that this project helps community for upgrade their projects