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Tips and tricks I've learned over the past few years of dealing with multi-gigabyte CSV files.

A post exploring why and how to wrap a request in a database transaction. This is particularly useful for ensuring that you never end up with half your request data persisted when working across multiple and/or related entities in a request.

An awesome database tool I stumbled upon and thought the community should see! Like DataGrip from JetBrains but open source with no paywalls

Statamic v3 released recently and provides a powerful CMS for Laravel developers. In this tutorial we'll build a Statamic site and deploy it using Netlify.

Enforce consistency on your polymorphic relationship models.

Laravel provides great functiontlity for working with uploaded files. But what happens when you need to upload a file from a url rather than from a user's computer? I turns out to be pretty simple.

Ever needed to apply filters on a query conditionally, only when the user actually applies them? Laravel query builder's method when got you covered.

From time to time I find myself in need of invoking private / protected methods, especially when writing unit tests, So I wrote a little helper to handle those situations.

It helps you manage de-normalized tables in your laravel applications. It automatically syncs your normalized tables with source tables using simple configurations.

Sometimes your controllers can get rather large, especially if you have lots of conditions and data formatting. Have you ever considered moving some of that complexity out into a dedicated response class?

The article dives into a couple of methods for customising the email verification expiration time for verification email sent by Laravel for new users. In one case we use the config setting, in the other we override the verificationUrl method to customise how this is generated.

Overview of the new upsert feature in Laravel 8.10, how to use it and some tips.

Today a new version of Laravel FFMpeg has been released: version 7.3. It now has support for watermark built-in! You can add watermarks from your local or remote storage or even from the web.

SEO package made for maximum customization and flexibility

Format PHP dates with ease. You don't have to Google the format string each time. Use plain English to set the format, almost as you pronounce it.

A "note to self" on how to best handle moving from a classic foreign key constrained relationship, to a polymorphic relationship in Eloquent, without impacting the end user.

This is an intro to how transpiling works for PHP: Similar to how Babel compiles JS to make it compatible with older browsers, Rector can convert PHP code across versions. So we can use PHP 7.4 features (typed properties, arrow functions), and deploy it to PHP 7.1.

Laravel blade is a powerful tool, but the blade engine will only compile templates that are actually written to a file somewhere in this tutorial I show you how to use blade to compile any string.

Deep dive into running Laravel on DigitalOcean's new PAAS offering + In Depth Review

There are a few different ways to handle translated text in your codebase, but here we’ll cover 2 of the more common approaches; using the full text in your source code, and using translation keys.