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This post, explains how to create markdown templates for sending email with real-life example of sending email of purchase invoices using markdown UI.

My system is safe, it uses encryption. You heard/said this from time to time. Sure, but why and how is it safe? Do you really know this?

Testing code is the only way we can verify correctness of our software. Anybody does it. However there are ways better than other.

I've seen how a lot of people have a vague idea of what can be achieved using Redis and Laravel beyond caching. In this tutorial, I discussed, how to install Redis and the installation options available, Redis Data types using Redis CLI, Create a simple eCommerce using Laravel with Redis for data storage.

Learn how to track and visualize a chain of queued jobs in Laravel using a custom trait, job middleware, and Laravel Livewire.

Easily implement global or model-specific cooldowns into your Laravel app.

Learn to send multiple attachments using Laravel mailables with practical example of sending purchase invoices.

Learn how to build cross-platform, native mobile apps using familiar Vue.js syntax and Tailwind CSS.

A list of personal top learning resources for PHP and Laravel developers and my personal journey of discovering them over the years.

It's quite common to keep tabs on when an authenticated user last used your web application. The information can be really useful when calculating software adoption, usage frequency and return rate.

A nice introduction to modern AOP in PHP.

The most popular breadcrumbs package has stopped developing and supporting. For this, I made a new one.

A package that lets you define the inverse relationship on hasMany relationships, resulting in the parent being loaded on the children, saving database queries.

“Static constructors” are a concept a lot of object-oriented programming languages support - although, unfortunately, PHP does not.

Update your Laravel application from any Git repository without dealing with Composer.

A tutorial on how to configure push deploys for Laravel apps using GitHub Actions, for free. Asset compilation on the server, no race conditions with code & DB schema being out of sync. Application is `down` for as short time as possible. Useful if you can configure webservers and don't want to pay for some service just to get push deploys.

PHP Mentors Book is a set of questions with topics that can help a lot of developers out there (Not just PHP). Answers from PHP masters around the world for your questions. Code, Career, Team work, Working environment, Logs, Tests, Future and much more.

In this two-part series, my colleague Freek and I will discuss the architecture of a project we're working on.

If you don't need a reactive UI, Alpine.js might still find it's place in your tech stack.

String concatenation is the current way we can pass arguments to Laravel middleware - but what if there was another way