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An introduction to using bitmasks in general, and their usage in PHP, Laravel, and MySQL.

In this fourth post of the series, I've gathered new features added to Jobs and Queues in Laravel 8. Since the original release of 8.0 back in September 2020, Jobs and Queues got a bunch of significant updates that you don't want to miss.

A lot of people seem to have a hard time getting started with testing. I hope to show how easy easy it is to get started when using Livewire.

Choosing between Swoole and Roadrunner in a Laravel Octane deployment can be overwhelming - in this post I compare the advantages and disadvantages of both.

This blog post follows up on last week's overview of the new Database and Eloquent features in Laravel 8 since the original release in September 2020. I already covered Collections, and next week is all about Jobs and Queues. Enjoy!

Simple JWT Auth for Laravel PHP Framework using Firebase JWT under the hood (alternative to tymon/jwt that's not maintained anymore).

A clever use of MySQL indexes and generated columns to make blazing fast geolocation searches.

In this series, I show you new features and improvements to the Laravel framework since the original release of version 8. This week is about the Database and Eloquent features in Laravel 8.

The Visitor Pattern opens up your entities to extension without changing them (much); and keeps the code separate.

Security is always a concern when you are developing a web application but fortunately, tools like the Laravel framework provide us with a lot of good practices and excellent features. This article dives into the Laravel security features and other out-of-the-box practices to help you understand how to better protect your applications.

Bugs caused by race conditions can be a huge source or frustration. They are difficult to identify and often difficult to remedy.

The Laravel team released so many great Laravel 8.x updates over the last year, it's incredible! I wrote a series of blog posts highlighting some of the best new features and improvements. Today: Collections.

CDNs are crucial for fast content delivery. Here is a blog post with the step-by-step guide on how to use Digital Ocean Spaces and the Digital Ocean CDN through Laravel | Light-it

Laravel doesn't support MongoDB by default, but that doesn't mean you can’t use them together. This comprehensive guide will walk you through the entire process of setting up Laravel with MongoDB to use as a drop-in replacement for your existing database management system.

The article attempts to demystify concepts like, dependency injection, inversion of control, the service container, and finally the service providers.

Here's how I shaved several dozen ms of latency from my Laravel app. Some of the following steps are well-known, but a few took me a while to figure out.

Learn how to get the previous and next records in Laravel using the record name or title to display links on the front-end to allow users to navigate easily

For Artisan School, I wanted to create custom Open Graph images for each video page. When somebody shares a link on social media, platforms like Facebook and Twitter use the OG image to represent the shared link. I'll show you how to use Browsershot and Tailwind CSS to generate and save the OG images.

I’ve created a list of useful tips, tricks and links related to PHP, Laravel, Vue, MySQL etc. that I’ve found on the internet and will be updating it regularly as I find more content over time.

A recording of the process involved for doing Laravel's weekly open-source releases.