50 Laravel tricks
An awesome collection of Laravel tricks shared by Yitzchok Willroth aka Coderabbi at php[world]. He even includes some Laravel 5.2 specific tips.
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Zero downtime deployments with Envoy original
Envoy is Laravel's official task runner. Using a Blade style syntax tasks can be defined that can be run both locally and remotely. At Spatie, we've been using Envoy for quite some time to deploy code on production servers. Summarized our trusty Envoy script did the following things: bringing the…
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Validate (almost) anything in Laravel original
Laravel ships with some good validation capabilities. Form request validation is a nice way to make sure http requests pass valid data. To validate stuff that enters the application in some other way validators can be created manually. Unfortunately this is kinda verbose: $validator =…
Building a crawler in PHP original
When Spatie unleashes a new site on the web we want to make sure that all, both internal and external, links on it work. To facilitate that process we released a tool to check the statuscode of every link on a given website. It can easily be installed via composer: composer global require…
On open sourcing Blender original
At Spatie we use a homegrown Laravel template called Blender. It's being used on nearly all our projects. When starting with a greenfield project we take a copy of Blender and make project specific changes in that copy. We built it because we want maximum flexibility and don't want to be hampered by…
A pjax middleware for Laravel 5 original
A few days ago Jeffrey Way published an interesting lesson on how to integrate pjax with Laravel. Pjax is jquery plugin that leverages ajax to speed up the loading time of webpages. It works by only fetching specific html fragments from the server, and client-side updating only certain parts of the…
Custom conditionals with Laravel's Blade Directives
Matt Stauffer explains when and how you can leverage custom blade directives.
One of the greatest aspects of Laravel Blade is that it's incredibly easy to handle view partials and control logic. I find myself frequently extracting the contents of a loop out to a Blade partial and then passing just a bit of data into the partial.https://mattstauffer.co/blog/custom-conditionals-with-laravels-blade-directivesBut sometimes the repetitive code isn't the view itself, but the conditional logic I'm running.
A Fractal service provider for Laravel original
Today I released a new package called laravel-fractal. It provides a Fractal service provider for Laravel. If you don't know what Fractal does, take a peek at their intro. Shortly said, Fractal is very useful to transform data before using it in an API. Using Fractal data can be transformed like…
Active menu state using route attributes
I bet you have a headache when you need to mark some menu item as active. Is there any good way to solve this? Yes, there is – route attributes.http://blog.krucas.lt/2015/07/active-menu-state-using-route-attributes/
Redirect every request in a Laravel app original
I recently had to redirect every single request in a Laravel app. You might think that would be as easy as this: Route::get('/', function() { return redirect('https://targetdomain.com'); }); But that'll only redirect the "/" page. All other requests will return a 404.…
Sharing Laravel cookies across subdomains
I recently ran into a problem where I had a suite of applications hosted on a set of subdomains that all needed to be able to share a single cookie. Any cookies other than the shared cookie needed to stay specific to their subdomain, but this one shared cookie needed to be accessible to any of them. I also wanted to accomplish this using Laravel's `Cookie` facade.https://gistlog.co/JacobBennett/15558410de2a394373ac
A middleware to check abilities on the route level original
Laravel's native authorization functionality allows you to define abilities a user can have. There are multiple ways to check if a user has a certain ability: via the facade, via the user model, within blade templates and within form requests. What Laravel doesn't provide out of the box is a…
Introducing Laravel Spark
Matt Stauffer wrote another excellent article on Laravel. This time he gives a tour of Laravel Spark.
In case you're still having a bit of trouble understanding what Spark is really about, Spark is a tool designed to make it quicker for you to spin up SaaS applications, and it handles user authentications, plans and payments and coupons, and team logic.https://mattstauffer.co/blog/introducing-laravel-spark-a-deep-diveMost SaaSes have these same components: user accounts, Stripe-based payments, and different payment plans. And many have payment coupons and team payment options.
Rather than re-creating this functionality with every new Laravel app you create, just use Spark, and you'll get all that and a free SaaS landing page to boot.
ActiveRecord and the Beauty Lost in Translation
If you're going to read one article on ActiveRecord vs Data Mapper let it be this one by Matthew Machuga.
The next time you come across the ActiveRecord vs. Data Mapper argument, or ones like it, be critical of what is being said. If it impacts your work in some way, do some research to find out if what is being said is true or if it has been something lost in translation. Don't feel bad for using a pattern that has spread across multiple languages and ecosystems successfully, and is probably the reason we have most of the web frameworks we do today. While the ActiveRecord existed well before Rails, it was Rails that gave it a beautiful API and made other frameworks like CodeIgniter, Laravel, .NET, Fuel, Django, etc want to have something comparable.http://matthewmachuga.com/blog/2015/activerecord-and-the-beauty-lost-in-translation.htmlIf you use Eloquent, ActiveRecord for Rails, or any other AR ORM, make sure you know that you are not alone. You are in good company of many, many developers who use it successfully day-to-day. However, if one day you choose to use a Data Mapper implementation or something else, then you will still be in good company, and still deserve respect regardless of which side of the fence you fall.
GraphQL: A data query language
When we built Facebook's mobile applications, we needed a data-fetching API powerful enough to describe all of Facebook, yet simple enough to be easy to learn and use by our product developers. We developed GraphQL three years ago to fill this need. Today it powers hundreds of billions of API calls a day. This year we've begun the process of open-sourcing GraphQL by drafting a specification, releasing a reference implementation, and forming a community around it at graphql.org.https://code.facebook.com/posts/1691455094417024/graphql-a-data-query-language/
There's already a package to use GraphQL with Laravel.
A package to add roles and permissions to Laravel original
With the release of Laravel 5.1.1 last week the framework gained some nice Authorization features. It provides an easy way to define abilities (aka permissions). Checking if a user has certain abilities is very simple as well. The code powering authorization is a thing of beauty. If you're a…
How to add multilingual support to Eloquent original
Eric Barnes, the curator of Laravel News, recently decided to publish guest posts. Mike Bronner contributed the first guest post on how to install Z-Ray in Homestead. Today, an article written by me was published.
Using UUIDs with Laravel’s Eloquent ORM
Garrett St. John wrote a clear example on how to use UUIDs in Eloquent models. This kind of logic could go in a trait so it can be reused across multiple models.
By default, Eloquent uses an auto-incrementing integer as the primary key for its tables. While most of the time this is totally acceptable, sometimes there is a need for primary keys to be less predictable.http://garrettstjohn.com/entry/using-uuids-laravel-eloquent-orm/
EDIT: Kirk Bushell has made a trait for this functionality. Take a look at his Eloquence package on GitHub.
Pushing polymorphism to the database
After giving excellent talks at both Laracons, contributing to Laravel's new ACL, putting out an interesting Full Stack Radio episode with Wes Bos, Adam Wathan today published a new screencast. He is now officially on a roll.
After my presentation at Laracon this year, a lot of people asked me how I'd take that same polymorphic approach when the objects would have to be retrieved from the database.http://adamwathan.me/2015/09/03/pushing-polymorphism-to-the-databaseThis screencast covers how I'd approach implementing the same idea in a real Laravel application with Eloquent, by using polymorphic relationships and delegation to accomplish the same thing without having to resort to any nasty conditionals.
Laracon EU 2015 recap day two original
Today the second day of the Laracon EU took place in Amsterdam. Like yesterday there were a lot of interesting speakers. Jessica Rose started with a great talk on imposter syndrome. Impostor syndrome is the feeling that you don't know what you're doing, while everyone else is getting on fine. She…
