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PHP 8 release of this major version means significant changes, new features but also performance improvements. PHP 8 also brings a nice range of new features such as the JIT compiler, union types, attributes, and more.

A collection of helper methods for testing and debugging API endpoints.

In this post, I'll show you the best way to deploy your current Laravel application from local to Heroku with the Postgres database. It's quick and easy.

This is an elementary library for working on identifying similar strings in PHP without using machine learning. It allows you to get groups of one topic from the transferred set of sentences. For example, combine news headlines from different publications, as Google News does.

Laravel Breeze is a shiny new package released by Taylor and the Laravel team.

I needed to display only the first picture from my Product's model media collection and found my app running five queries and hydrating 16 models with only four products to display 😱 . Here's how I ended with only two queries and eight models.

Opinionated php-cs-fixer rules that can be shared across projects, along with preconfigured Finder classes for Laravel projects/packages/composer packages/etc. Preset rules can be customized. Reduces the amount of code in `.php_cs` to only a few lines.

Step-by-step guide on using Rector and GitHub Actions to downgrade a WordPress plugin, from PHP 7.4 (when coding) to 7.1 (for deployment)

Markdown is a great way of making notes, writing articles and generally managing content. Let's take a look at how quickly you can begin using Markdown in your PHP applications.

A comparison of PHP Code Coverage tools, their performance, and features.

Work with the new Laravel Envoyer API with ease inside your project using the Laravel Envoyer SDK

dotenvdiff is a command-line tool that allows you to compare the differences in environment variables between two .env (or .env.example) files. Its main use case is to find out if the .env.example has changed in your project, so you can update your .env accordingly.

A small article about my experience with APIs, when you may want to consider building your app with an API or without it, or maybe you need a GraphQL server? let's find out!

The Eloquent ORM that comes with Laravel makes it incredibly easy to interact with a database. It is like Eloquent models themselves; relationships also serve as essential query builders, representing the relationships as methods provide powerful method chaining and querying capabilities.

In this short tutorial, we will show you how you can add a GDPR compliant cookie popup to your Laravel site. By using the https://github.com/42coders/eu-cookie-consent package ;)

Don't you know how the real visitors of your website experience your website? Find out what Real User Monitoring is and how you can use it to improve the user experience.

A new PhpStorm plugin from a Laravel community member adds Alpine.js support (autocomplete, syntax highlighting, etc).

Searching in Laravel is very easy with Laravel Scout, but it only ships with an Algolia driver. Because Elasticsearch is fun, powerful and can also be self-hosted I created an Elasticsearch driver for Laravel Scout and in this blog post I will explain how to get started.

Editing files on a remote server via SSH with vim, nano, etc. can be tedious and annoying. I feel comfortable with is Sublime. Let me show you how to open and edit remote files comfortably with Sublime directly from your terminal.

A Puppeteer bridge for PHP, supporting the entire API. Based on Rialto, a package to manage Node resources from PHP.