Posts tagged with laravel
Lumen is Laravel, stripped down for speed. It doesn't bother with views and sessions and other consumer-facing conveniences--it's optimized for speedy, trim, microservices. Try it out. And check out the docs, too, for a ton of more information about how to use Lumen.https://mattstauffer.co/blog/introducing-lumen-from-laravel
Eric Barnes of Laravel News news demonstrates a nice way to loop over a collection in a Blade view using @each.
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Socialite is a first party package that was introduced together with Laravel 5. It aims to provide a very convenient way to authenticate with OAuth providers. Natively it supports Facebook, Twitter, Google, GitHub and Bitbucket.
DraperStudio and Andy Wendt made a whole bunch of other Socialite providers.
If you need to retrieve some data from your Google Analytics account in Laravel 5, then laravel-analytics is the package for you. Assuming the analytics tracking code is installed on your site, the package allows you to determine which pages are visited the most, which browsers are used most to…
https://medium.com/@genealabs/run-allthecommands-outside-of-homestead-e2fc8d05251fThe accepted solution thus far has been to install newer versions of PHP alongside Apple’s version using Homebrew or MacPorts. This would likely require you to compile the MCrypt extension manually. I also found that Homebrew could leave your system in disarray if things went wrong (more than once I had to do a complete restore because of this).
However, there’s another method I came across while research some non-related issues: install the latest version of PHP from a binary that includes the MCrypt extension. It will not bork up your system if you want to remove it, either.
Last week I made a Laravel 5 package that could dump your db. Last saturday night I took the time to expand the functionality. laravel-backup can now backup your entire application. The backup is a zipfile that contains all files in the directories you specify along with a dump of your database. The…
Middleware is a series of wrappers around your application that decorate the request and the response. By wrapping the app in decorators you can add new behavious from the outside. This image explains the idea more visually:
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source: StackPHP.com[/caption]
The concept isn't new, solutions already exists for many languages (eg. Ruby, Python, Node, ...)
The PHP equivalent is StackPHP. Here's an excellent post by Richard Bagshaw explaining it. There are a lot of StackPHP style middlewares available that you can use in your applications.
Laravel 5 uses middleware for putting an application in maintenance mode, CSRF protection, authentication and more. Unfortunately Laravel 5 middleware isn't compatible with StackPHP-style middleware. Barry vd. Heuvel created at package to convert StackPHP middleware to Laravel 5 middleware and explained the inner workings on his blog.
This Laravel 5 package provides an artisan command to dump your database to a file. When installed you can dump your database with this command [code]php artisan db:backup``` A file containing the dump of your database will be created in the directory you specified in the config-file. I plan on…
Matt Stauffer shows how he built Gistlog in under two hours.
Gistlog is a blogging "platform" for people who want to quickly write and publish content, in Markdown, and don't want to bother with yet another platform and yet another login and yet another group hoarding their content. With Gistlog, you use your pre-existing Github login, you store the data in your own Github account, and you can publish with a single click.A must see if you want to know how to get things done quickly in Laravel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4BbeHYCR1E
Also make sure you check out his blogposts on the new features of Laravel 5.
Recently some of the Laravel-packages I built at Spatie were updated for Laravel 5.
spatie/laravel-glide This package enables you to generate image manipulations on the fly and generate URL's to those images. These URL's will be signed so only you will be able to specify which manipulations should be generated. Every manipulation will be cached. Under the hood, Glide is being used.
spatie/searchindex This is an opinionated package to store and retrieve objects from Elasticsearch. It was tailormade for a project I was working on and only provides the functionality that I needed. If you need full control over elasticsearch via PHP, take a look at the official low-level client.
spatie/googlesearch This package can fetch results from a Google Custom Search Engine. It returns an array with searchresults.
eloquent-sortable This package provides a trait that adds sortable behaviour to an Eloquent model. The value of the ordercolumn of a new record of a model is determined by the maximum value of the ordercolumn of all records of that model + 1.
A big thank you goes out to Matthias De Winter, who is helping me update these packages.
Last week Laravel 5 was released. Unfortunately that handy command for tailing the logs that you know and love from Laravel 4 was not included. The laravel-tail package brings it back. You can install it via composer: composer require spatie/laravel-tail After that you'll have to register the…
The activitylog-package provides a very easy way to log activities of the users of your app. Today I took the time to make it compatible with Laravel 5. Logging some activity couldn't be easier: [code] /* The log-function takes two parameters: - $text: the activity you wish to log. - $user: optional…
A great talk by John Arstingstall about dependency injection, aka the ioC Container.
http://vimeo.com/88888213
Obfuscating ids in urls is a great way of hiding your application's internals from your visitors. It reduces the chance for malicious users to guess urls and prevents everyone from knowing how many user accounts or articles your website has.Jens Segers introduces the hashids library and proposes a very nice way on how to use it in Laravel 5.
http://jenssegers.be/blog/64/easy-id-obfuscation-with-laravel-5
https://github.com/slampenny/SmartSeederSeeding as it is currently done in Laravel is intended only for dev builds, but what if you want to seed a production database with different data from what you use in development? What if you want to seed a table you've added to a database that is currently in production with new data?
This package allows you to use Laravel seeders in the same way you're using migrations.
Back in September Taylor Otwell said that Laravel 4.3 would be renamed to Laravel 5 to reflect a directory change and “other interesting initiatives”. Since that announcement the excitement for Laravel 5 has been building and “other interesting initiatives” turned into almost two dozen new features to help developers be more productive.Eric Barnes made a nice list of the most notable new goodies in Laravel 5. The shiny new version of the framework will be released next week.
Earlier this month Glide joined The League of Extraordinary Packages. This package provides an easy way to generate image manipulations on the fly. Within a couple of hours I had integrated this wonderful package into both my company's legacy and current CMS.
The current CMS is based on Laravel. The Glide-integration is now available as a package on github: freekmurze/laravel-glide.
<img src="{{ GlideImage::setImagePath('kayaks.jpg')->setConversionParameters(['w'=> 50, 'filt'=>'greyscale']) }}" />
The function will output an URL to a greyscale version of kayaks.jpg that has a width of 50 pixels. As soon as the URL gets hit by your browser, the image will be generated on the fly. The generated image will be saved in app/storage/glide-cache (= the cache directory specified in the input file).
The generated URL will also be signed to prevent jerks from generating unwanted manipulations.
The setConversionParameters-function accepts an array with conversion options. You can take a look at the image API of Glide to see which options are available.
It's also possible to generate an image directly on the server:
GlideImage::setImagePath('kayaks.jpg')
->setConversionParameters(['w'=> 50, 'filt'=>'greyscale'])
->save($fileWhereImageManipulationMustBeSaved);
Elasticsearch is a lightning quick open source search server. It's java-based (but don't let that scare you) and can index and search documents. If you want to know more about it, watch this excellent talk by Ben Corlett. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waTWeJeFp4A For a recent Laravel project I had…
