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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.

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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.

Have you ever used a service provider to set a default value for a third-party library? Have you ever done this based on the current request or URL? Have you ever considered doing this inside of middleware instead?

A quick look at how you can configure your GitHub Actions workflows to only run when a certain phrase is present in the commit message.

This package has a trait that you can add to a Form Request to convert base64 input data to files.

Extension to provide instant access to Tailwind support in mix builds. mix.taiwind(). Work seamlessly with spatie/laravel-mix-purgecss. Forge that import notice ;) https://github.com/spatie/laravel-mix-purgecss#important-notice-for-mixpostcss-or-postcssconfigjs-users

Marje Holmstrom-Sabo describes Tighten's intent and successes this year in facilitating sponsorship of hundreds of Laracon Online tickets.

In view of upcoming Hacktoberfest, I want to share some tips for beginners who might want to make their first contribution specifically to a PHP package. From my own experience, I know it can look daunting to work on a package as opposed to a "regular" (Laravel) application.

A quick intro on how to use states for "nested" Database Factories. The examples covers the Models created by laravel/cashier-paddle package.

Laravel makes use of the internal `Pipeline` class and it's more common in userland too, but have you ever considered tidying up these pipeline processes with custom pipeline classes?

it's a tip for calling afterCreating methods outside configure() method in laravel 8

Now that Laravel 8 no longer uses the Login Controller with AuthenticatesUser trait, how do we include our own logic in the login process so that we can direct the user differently based on who they are.

There can be an unlimited number of Gmail addresses for a single Gmail account. This package offers a way to check how unique one really is.