Simplifying controllers original
In this blog post, I'd like to highlight two tips to make controllers in Laravel feel much lighter.
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Access related data in Eloquent using an IDE friendly way
?? Laravel Core Adventures - Did you know?
— Christoph Rumpel ? (@christophrumpel) April 17, 2019
In Laravel, we can access related data as if we would call a class property. But in fact, this is just a shortcut/hack for using the relationship method we have defined.
The second approach has one advantage, your IDE can follow it. pic.twitter.com/OjL4zNqUnp
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Unsafe SQL functions in Laravel
My colleague Brent offers some more details on the intricacies of Laravel's query builder.
I recently learned that not all query builder functionality in Laravel is "safe". This means that user input shouldn't be passed directly to it, as it might expose your application to SQL injection vulnerabilities.
Read more [stitcher.io]
An important security release for laravel-query-builder original
Our laravel-query-builder package exposed a serious security issue: it allowed SQL injection attacks. Laravel Query Builder v1.17.1, which is now available, fixes the vulnerability. If you're using the package, stop reading now and upgrade to the latest version first. For Laravel 5.6, 5.7 and 5.8…
Laravel event projector v2 has been released original
Laravel event projector is a package that aims to be the entry point for event sourcing in Laravel. It can help you setting up aggregates, projectors and reactors. Earlier today our team released v2. This version streamlines the projectors and reactors from v1 and adds support for aggregates.
In this blogpost I'd like to explain a potential problem with traditionally built applications. After that we'll take a look at what projectors and aggregates are. Finally we'll walk through an example how you can create an aggregate laravel-event-projector.
20 unknown gems of Laravel
KH. Jebran Ali lists a few cool Laravel tricks
Laravel is full of hidden gems that I have discovered during working on different tasks. Some of these gems were less-known or un-documented features, functions parameters and hacks. In this blog post I will share those hidden gems with you, let’s get started.
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Easy chunking in Laravel
? Here's an undocumented hidden @laravelphp gem. Did you know you there's a shorter way to retrieve models in a chunked way? ?https://t.co/Vj74GAfAAr#laravel #php pic.twitter.com/qcVr5bCqGZ
— Freek Van der Herten ? (@freekmurze) March 25, 2019
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How PHP Environment Variables Actually work
Matt Allan took a deep dive learning about environment variables.
Laravel, Symfony, and other modern PHP frameworks use environment variables to store security credentials and configuration that changes from one machine to the next. ... Let’s break down what environment variables are, how they work, and how to correctly use them in your code.
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How to test something is being pulled out of storage in Laravel
How to test something you are pulling OUT of Storage.
— Jake Bennett (@JacobBennett) March 19, 2019
Typically Laravel Storage testing is comprised of asserting that you put something IN Storage. If you happen to be pulling something down from a Storage disk and doing some processing on it, this has been helpful. pic.twitter.com/VjSqo914US
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How much I earn from this laravelDaily blog
A while ago Povilas Korop, creator of and writer at LaravelDaily, shared some interesting numbers on his blog.
Tidying Up Your PHPUnit Tests with Data Providers
Over at the Tighten blog, Chris Trombley published a new post on how to use data providers in PHPUnit.
PHPUnit gives us a way to consolidate this common logic while varying our setup data, without losing the benefit of dedicated, smaller test methods. In this post, we'll explore PHPUnit's data providers. While data providers are available in any PHPUnit test suite, let's look at how they can help us tidy up our tests in a Laravel application.
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Introducing Interia.js
Jonathan Reinink is creating a library that'll make it easy to create server-driven single-page apps. Super cool idea!
I wanted to blend the best parts of classic server-side apps (routing, controllers, and ORM database access) with the best parts of single-page apps (JavaScript rendering and no full page reloads). Or, at least the best parts as I see them. ?
That journey has led me to a pretty interesting new pattern, which this article explains in detail. In short, I've created a Turbolinks inspired library that makes it super easy to create server-driven single-page apps. I am calling this library Inertia.js.
Read more [reinink.ca]
Queueable actions in Laravel
Our team at Spatie released new package called laravel-queuable-action. On his blog, my colleague Brent explains why we created it and how you can use it.
By introducing the concept of actions, we're able to separate responsibilities between classes better: jobs are used for data serialisation and executing tasks asynchronously; but they are not concerned with business logic anymore.
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A Laravel package to flash messages original
For the past few years, we've been using the laracasts/flash package to flash messages in all projects. In case you don't know: a flash message is a message that is being passed from a request to only the next request. The Laracasts package does its job pretty well. It has support for multiple flash messages, overlay messages. It comes with bootstrap styling out of the box and a few messaging levels preconfigured.
We've noticed that in our projects we only use a tiny bit of functionality from the laracasts/flash. That's why we whipped up our own lightweight package called spatie/laravel-flash. In this blog post, I'd like to introduce it to you.
Testing simple S3 uploads with randomized file names in Laravel
? Testing simple S3 uploads with randomized file names in Laravel? Use `Storage::fake` and real-time Facades. Handled. pic.twitter.com/LIBfHbLQxD
— HEMPHILL (@davidhemphill) March 12, 2019
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A package to create personal data exports original
One of the good things that GDPR brought us was the right to data portability. Shortly put, this means that an app should be able to export all data that it has for a user.
Because we have multiple apps at Spatie that need to create such an export, we decided to extract our solution to a package called laravel-personal-data-export. In this blog post, I'd like to introduce the package to you.
Find out which composer dependencies have released new major versions
#Laravel tip of the day: if you want to find out which of your composer.json packages have released newer versions, just run "composer outdated". You will get a full list with all information. pic.twitter.com/2FOw39TBr4
— Laravel Daily (@DailyLaravel) March 6, 2019
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Group by raw with boolean condition in Eloquent
Povilas Korop explains how to use a raw groupBy in Laravel. Cool!
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Adding your own faker provider
One great way to keep your @laravelphp test factories clean is by creating custom faker providers that you can use to create custom fake data, whenever you need to fake something that the built-in faker does not yet support. pic.twitter.com/kwwuevuUf9
— Marcel Pociot (@marcelpociot) March 5, 2019
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Using relations in Laravel factories
? Laravel tip: Use your defined Eloquent relationships when you Factory models.
— Rasmus C Nielsen (@rasmuscnielsen) March 4, 2019
This can save you many lines of code and make your tests much more eloquent.
Simply install this package: https://t.co/6XNeQZk40T pic.twitter.com/f4T5xayL5X
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