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Uploading avatar Images with Spatie’s medialibrary

Over at Laravel News Povilas Korop wrote a nice tutorial on how to use our medialibrary (we released a new major version a couple of days ago).

By default, the Laravel registration form contains only the name, email, and password, but often it’s useful to allow the user to upload a photo or an avatar. In this tutorial we will show you an easy way to add it, using Spatie’s Media Library package.

https://laravel-news.com/uploading-avatar-images

It's a good tutorial but there's a few things not mentioned. At the end of the post you'll see this line of code:

Auth::user()->getMedia('avatars')->first()->getUrl('thumb');

That can be written a bit shorter as :

Auth::user()->getFirstMediaUrl('avatars', 'thumb');

The new v7 of the medialibrary has a new feature called "single file collections", which is just perfect for this example. Take a look at the docs: https://docs.spatie.be/laravel-medialibrary/v7/working-with-media-collections/defining-media-collections#single-file-collections

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laravel-medialibrary v7 has been released ? original

by Freek Van der Herten – 14 minute read

laravel-medialibrary is a powerful package that can help handle media in a Laravel application. It can organise your files across multiple filesystems, generate thumbnails, optimize images and much much more. At Spatie we use this package in nearly every project. The last few months our team has…

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Laravel Excel — Lessons Learned

Last week Laravel Excel v3 was released. In a post on his company blog Patrick Brouwers writes the story of why and how v3 was released.

Laravel Excel (https://github.com/Maatwebsite/Laravel-Excel) turned 4 years last November and has reached almost 6 million Packagist downloads. A good time to reflect on 4,5 years of open source development.

https://medium.com/@maatwebsite/laravel-excel-lessons-learned-7fee2812551

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Server side rendering JavaScript from PHP

My colleague Seb did some amazing work with the creation of two packages that make it easy to get started with server side rendering in PHP. In a new post on his blog he'll tell you all about it.

Server side rendering is a hot topic when it comes to client side applications. Unfortunately, it's not an easy thing to do, especially if you're not building things in a Node.js environment.

I published two libraries to enable server side rendering JavaScript from PHP: spatie/server-side-rendering and spatie/laravel-server-side-rendering for Laravel apps.

Let's review some server side rendering concepts, benefits and tradeoffs, and build a server renderer in PHP from first principles.

https://sebastiandedeyne.com/posts/2018/server-side-rendering-javascript-from-php

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Today we hit 10 million PHP package downloads original

by Freek Van der Herten – 2 minute read

For the past few years Spatie, the company where I work, has released many Laravel and PHP packages. Those packages are primarily built to be used in our own projects. We do not operate in a void. We have a community around us. They use our work. They help to make our packages better by submitting…

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Responsive images done right

Our team is currently prepping a new version of our medialibrary. One of the highlights is support for responsive images. On his blog my colleague Brent explains what it entails and why it is important.

I want to share some thoughts on responsive images. I'll write about a certain mindset which many projects could benefit from: small- and mid-sized web projects that don't need a full blown CDN setup, but would enjoy the performance gain of responsive images.

https://www.stitcher.io/blog/responsive-images-done-right

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Using Content Security Policy headers in a Laravel app original

by Freek Van der Herten – 5 minute read

By default all scripts on a webpage are allowed to send and fetch data from and to any site they want. If you think about it, that's kinda scary. Imagine that one of your JavaScript dependencies would send all keystrokes, including passwords, to a third party website. That would be pretty bad. In…

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Use the same controller to serve multiple formats

– twitter.com

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Setting up Laravel Horizon with Forge and Envoyer

Dries Vints, maintainer of Laravel.io, posted a step-by-step guide on how to get started with Laravel Horizon on a Forge provisioned server.

I recently installed Horizon for Laravel.io and while it wasn’t that hard to install, I still had to figure some things out. Since this was the first time setting everything up I thought I’d write up the steps to take to get started with Horizon and set everything up with Forge and Envoyer.

https://medium.com/@driesvints/laravel-horizon-with-forge-and-envoyer-82a7e819d69f

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A package to assign statuses to Eloquent models original

by Freek Van der Herten – 2 minute read

Imagine you want to have an Eloquent model hold a status. It's easily solved by just adding a status field to that model and be done with it. But in case you need a history of status changes or need to store some extra info on why a status changed, only adding a single field won't cut it. To handle…

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Blade component aliases in Laravel 5.6

Laravel 5.6 will probably ship this wednesday. One of the cool new features is the ability to register Blade component aliases, which was PRed by my colleague Seb. On his blog Seb guides you through the new functionality.

Laravel 5.6 adds the ability to register alias directives for Blade components. Let's review some background information and examples.

https://sebastiandedeyne.com/posts/2018/blade-component-aliases-in-laravel-56

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Customizing the Spatie dashboard

At Spatie, we have created a dashboard powered by Laravel, Pusher and Vue that displays a lot of information useful for our company. We opensourced the dashboard a while ago.

In a new post on his company blog Chris Sherry explains how they customized our dashboard.

We use Laravel because its a well-known framework among backend developers, meaning there’s a bigger community (including lots of open source libraries), great documentation and a tonne of experience of using the framework.

Vue.js is our first choice because it lets our frontend developers build components for a project without being to be locked into building the whole project on the framework, meaning we can use the right tools for the right job.

The fact that the Spatie dashboard used these meant that all the developers at CUBE would be able to build their own components for it, which was one of my key objectives.

https://3sidedcube.com/blog/2018/02/building-dashboard-laravel-vuejs/

It's really great to see that people customize and use our stuff!

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