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I've been writing an artisan command to import data from a remote MySQL database. I can only connect to that database over an SSH connection using an SSH key. Here is an explanation of how to accomplish that.

Hi Freek! I like very much your newsletter. Some days ago I wrote an article about how to start using GitHub Actions. In the article I included an example of a Laravel application. If you find it interesting enough it would be great if you would include it in your newsletter. Thanks and keep on with the good work you are doing in the newsletter. @danielvigueras

If you're interested in having a highly relevant search experience on your website, you're in luck. In this Livestream, Nuno Maduro will show you how to build a search experience that your users will love.

In this article, we will learn how to easily set up AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages) to the Laravel project.

How to use one laravel form class to validate multi request methods

Many of our clients have legacy PHP apps and want to move to Laravel. Here’s our approach to refactoring legacy code.

Instead of providing users what they want, focus on who they want to become.

Do you want a start testing your PHP applications? You got lucky - Nuno's talk at @LaraconEU 2020 about PEST just went up, check it out!

Supports validation, model binding, default values, translations, includes default vendor styling and is fully customizable!

When writing code, every keystroke counts. Mastering shortcuts or using snippets for your text editor or IDE will save you a significant amount of time in the long run. In this article, I will show you how to create snippets for my favourite text editor, Sublime Text.

This Laravel package allows you to search through multiple Eloquent models. It supports sorting, pagination, scoped queries, eager load relationships and searching through single or multiple columns.

Learn how you can sort your eloquent model queries by default.

While building my website, I struggled with making decisions about what tools to use. In this article, I share the tools I used and my rationale for using them. Hopefully, I am going to save someone the agony of making the same decision.

package to automatically collects emails as they are sent and stores them in a database. The package also provides a clean UI to display the emails.

Easily organize larger Laravel code bases with modules. Relies heavily on existing Composer and Laravel features so that you can utilize a more domain-oriented project structure without losing the value of existing Laravel conventions.

How eloquent eager loading saved me lots of unnecessary database queries and how it can save you too.

Code reusability is a big thing to consider when working on larger applications, but have you ever considered using synchronous jobs?

Join me as I go through some strange and unconventional things that you can do in your Laravel applications, starting with auto-validating Laravel models.

I’ve recently added Spatie’s Laravel Dashboard to a backend admin app and didn’t realize it is configured as a full webpage already, which was a problem given I couldn't just plug it into my existing page layout.