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Learn how to get the raw SQL string from a query builder in Laravel the easy way. Get to know this information to inspect the query used to retrieve the data.

Introduce lazy loading to an existing application without interrupting flow or overwhelming your logs

Cloning is a nice way of creating a quick copy of an object. But there are some things you need to be aware of!

Let's take a look at how we can create a custom Option type to handle optional values in PHP.

A simple to use Feature Flag package for Laravel, allowing you to create Feature Groups and assign Users to them.

In this video, we will look at the comparison between normal if statement and when conditional used in Laravel's Model. Here we will compare by looping between 100,000 data and see how long will each take.

PHP 8.1 introduced the new Fiber class, which allows running coroutines inside your script, i.e. two functions executing simultaneously. Let’s see how to use them by using some examples. These examples are implemented as PHPUnit tests which made simple assertions.

This week's look at the important and interesting news impacting the Symfony and PHP communities.

Let's look at how we can use Pest's Expectation API with array items.

Quickly scan source code for calls to Ray

Enhance (final) classes and functions by implementing these similar, but not quite the same, patterns.

Since Livewire is reactive, it's easy to hide or show select menu's based on whether another one is selected but what about changing the contents of a select menu, that's a little different.

Today I want to share the birth of a new project with the Laravel community: Artisan School. The primary goal is to provide high-quality Laravel screencasts where I mix the Laravel documentation with real-life examples.

Pest PHP is a relatively new PHP testing framework. It has a nice syntax, and a few cool features built on top of PHPunit. I already wrote an article on how to convert a PHPunit test suite to Pest, but in this article I want to take a look at some cool Pest techniques and my Pest configuration.

Laravel provides a range of methods to test parts of the framework, one of which is called blade() which allows you to test blade components work as expected.

Learn how to add a Color picker/swatch field to Laravel Nova. Make use of this color picker field to make something amazing with your content.

Swiftmailer is dead. Time to start using Symfony Mailer.

In this video, we will look at the new method added in the latest version of Laravel 8.60.0. The new method is 'whereMorphedTo' which is the convenient method to get the data from the morphed relationship in Laravel.

A set of open-source Blade components for the Laravel Framework

Using Laravel macros is a powerful way to extend default behavior of many classes in Laravel, such as Collections, Stringables and Reponses. In this article I'm going to explain how these macros work under the hood.