Casual Conversation Call #2 with Christoph Rumpel
Here's the recording of a casual conversation between Christoph Rumpel and me we had last week.
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The best PRs we got in October
At Spatie, we want to stimulate contributing to our open source stuff. That's why we said that we'd give away some of our paid products for free to authors of the best PRs we got in October. In a way, it's our own small version of Hacktoberfest.
In this blog post, I'd like to announce the winners.
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The problems with traditional form uploads
When handling uploads, a traditional input type of file has some downsides. In this streaming session I did yesterday, I explain those problems and share how they can be fixed using the upcoming Media Library Pro.
Laravel Worldwide Meetup #4: GitHub Actions & Unconventional Autoloaders
Here's the recording of Laravel Worldwide Meetup #4. Ryan Chandler showed a cool GitHub Action workflow to test a Laravel app. Next, Liam Hammet demonstrated some unconvential things you can do with PHP autoloaders.
Exploring PHP 8 features
In preparation for creating the Front Line PHP video course I needed to make myself familiar with the features that PHP 8 brings to the table. In this stream you can see me trying out some of these features for the first time.
Adding a subscription form to the web views of Mailcoach
After sending a new edition of my newsletter, I usually tweet out a webview URL together with a URL where people can subscribe to the newsletter. A webview is a hard to guess URL that people who didn't subscribe can visit to read the content of the newsletter.
Introducing Laravel Backup Server
I'm proud to announce the release of our newest package Laravel Backup Server. This paid package can backup several servers at once. When a backup contains files also present in a previous backup, deduplication using hard links will be performed. Even though you will see full backups in the…
Selling digital products using Laravel part 10: Miscellaneous interesting tidbits + outro
We've already covered a lot of ground in this series. Let's finish by highlighting some miscellaneous interesting tidbits.
Selling digital products using Laravel part 9: Serving ads on GitHub
Our company has created a lot of open-source packages. At the moment of writing, we have over 200 packages, which have been downloaded nearly 100 million times. Because we think the package users might be interested in our paid offerings as well, we've put a small ad in the readme of each repo. In this blogpost I'll explain how we manage these ads using Laravel Nova and S3.
Selling digital products using Laravel part 8: Mailing updates and news using Mailcoach
We'd like to stay in touch with the people interested in our products by sending them emails when we got some news on an upcoming product, or when we are running a promo for existing products. To handle subscriptions and send out emails, we use our home-grown Laravel package Mailcoach. Let's take a look at how we use Mailcoach ourselves.
Selling digital products using Laravel part 7: Importing package documentation from GitHub
On our site you'll find the documentation of our bigger bigger packages, like laravel-medialibrary, laravel-backup, laravel-event-sourcing, ... Let's take a look at how that works.
Selling digital products using Laravel part 6: Building a video section using Vimeo
On our website, we have a video section. All our videos uploaded to and handled via Vimeo where we have a Pro subscription. We chose Vimeo because it has an excellent widget to display videos, it converts our videos very fast, and it has a nice API to work with. Let's take a look at how Vimeo is integrated in our site.
Selling digital products using Laravel part 4: Making a sale using Paddle
Selling digital products using Laravel part 3: Giving customers access to private repositories on Github
Selling digital products using Laravel part 2: Logging in using GitHub
Selling digital products using Laravel part 1: Intro + a tour of spatie.be
On our Laravel powered company website we sell digital products: video courses, e-books, and software packages. Behind the scenes we use Laravel, Paddle, Vimeo, the GitHub API and a couple of other things.
We've open-sourced our site. You'll find the actual code we have deployed in the spatie-be repo on GitHub. In this blog post, I'll guide you through the code.
Selling digital products using Laravel part 5: Using Satis to install private packages
Some of our products, like Mailcoach and Media Library Pro, are PHP packages for which people can buy a time-limited license. Of course, we want customers to be able to install our paid packages using Composer. Our paid packages are not registered on Packagist, because Packagist is meant to be used for free packages, and there's no way to handle licenses. Let's take a look at how we can solve this using Satis.
A conversation with Christoph Rumpel
This week, Christoph Rumpel and I took some time to catch up. We talk a bit on programming, what's going on in our lives, and more. We streamed on our conversation on YouTube.
Creating a "Marked as Completed" button using Livewire
In this video, which is part of the Laravel Package Training, I show you how the "Marked as Completed" button under each video works.
Laravel Worldwide Meetup #3: Yaz Jallad & Adel Fayzrakhmanov
Here is the recording of Laravel Worldwide Meetup #3. Jazz Jalled spoke on the manager pattern, Adel Fayzrakhmanov on PhpStorm plugin development.