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Posts tagged with php

Best Practices for Using PHP Enumerations

Nov 16th 2023 – jeffochoa.me - submitted by Jeff

Although PHP Enumerations are meant to provide an easy and elegant solution to work with a predefined set of values, these classes are often misused, resulting in a lack of consistency due to the introduction of all sorts of methods that increase their complexity. In this article, we are going to go through some practices (both good and bad) with the goal of clarifying the understanding of these types of objects to help you build a more resilient and consistent codebase.

Preventing Duplicate Form Submissions Using Atomic Locks

Nov 14th 2023 – daryllegion.com - submitted by Daryl Legion

Duplicate form submissions or requests can be a common issue in web applications, often leading to unintended consequences. Laravel offers a straightforward solution to prevent these duplicates by using atomic locks.

Implementing Load More functionality with Livewire 3 in 2 minutes.

Nov 8th 2023 – youtu.be - submitted by Bert De Swaef

In this video you'll learn how to implement "load more" functionality with Livewire 3 in about 2 minutes.

Build a Quick & Easy Instant Search UI With Alpine AJAX & Laravel

Nov 6th 2023 – imacrayon.com - submitted by Christian Taylor

How to easily progressively enhance an instant search component with Alpine AJAX so that it works with or without JavaScript available.

Juggling Databases When Testing With Laravel: Tackling the Lock Wait Timeout Error

Nov 3rd 2023 – www.conroyp.com - submitted by Paul Conroy

Writing tests to validate behaviour in a multi-tenancy, multi-database app can be challenging. "Lock wait timeout" errors, or transactions cleaned up in one db and not another - it can be very frustrating! Fortunately, Laravel has a way to support db transactions across multiple databases.

Ensure model events are fired in your tests when using Model Observers

Oct 31st 2023 – devonmather.dev - submitted by Devon Mather

We will look at a couple of common scenarios where adding a couple of lines to your tests can future-proof your application from data loss when using Model Observers.

Why you should use spatie/laravel-data to store "settings" in your Laravel app

Oct 30th 2023 – stefanzweifel.dev - submitted by Stefan Zweifel

I struggled for a long time to find a good way to represent settings in my Laravel apps. spatie/laravel-data solves this for me with strong types and Eloquent casting.

Ray as a debugging companion in busy integration tests

Oct 12th 2023 – myray.app - submitted by Spatie

How to use Ray as a debugging companion in busy integration tests

Livewire v3: Modelable, Events, and Data Sharing

Oct 11th 2023 – fly.io - submitted by Kathryn Anne Tan

Share dynamic attributes between parent and child components using Livewire Modelable, and thirftily share data between separate components with client side events!

Debugging Livewire components using Ray

Oct 10th 2023 – myray.app - submitted by Spatie

Debugging Livewire components using Ray

Building a flexible yet abstract external integrations structure

Sep 27th 2023 – flareapp.io - submitted by Spatie

In this post we'll describe how we created a flexible yet abstract external integrations structure for Flare.

Solving PHP Scaling Issues

Sep 25th 2023 – www.eloquentarchitecture.com - submitted by John Freeman

We have an export feature that can build an Excel file over the course of many background jobs. Worked beautifully for years. Man, those were the days.

Read more [www.eloquentarchitecture.com]

Unorthodox Eloquent

Sep 18th 2023 – muhammedsari.me - submitted by Muhammed Sari

Muhammed's been working with Eloquent for over half a decade now, and it's time to share his bag of tricks. Buckle up, it'll be a good ride!

Laravel 11: Release Date and New Features

Sep 18th 2023 – alexandergaal.at - submitted by Alexander Gaal

It's the last quarter of the year and I'm getting more and more excited about the upcoming Laravel 11 release. Let's wrap it up!

Nginx Unit with Laravel and PHP

Sep 14th 2023 – fideloper.com - submitted by Chris Fidao

How to use Nginx Unit to server your Laravel application. It turns out, we can get rid of PHP-FPM, and run our apps more efficiently. We see how, and go over the pros and cons.

Workbench App for Packages

Sep 13th 2023 – world.hey.com - submitted by Tony Messias

A new package by Mior called Workbench lets us set up an example Laravel app inside our packages. This Workbench app can serve as documentation of how the package integrates with a Larave app. Plus, we can use the Workbench models, controllers, routes, etc., in our package's tests and quickly run the Workbench app in the browser!

Fast database queries are not always better

Sep 7th 2023 – timacdonald.me

Tim McDonald explains Laravel's cool whenQueryingForLongerThan method.

Why does a backslash prefix improve PHP function call performance

Sep 6th 2023 – www.deviaene.eu

Personally, I've never done this, as it feels like a micro-optimizations, but still good to know.

Craft emails that look good in each email client using MJML original

Aug 25th 2023 by Freek Van der Herten – 5 minute read

In a perfect world, email clients can render HTML as good as major browsers. Unfortunately, this is not the case. Email clients don't support modern HTML and CSS niceties and have a lot of quirks to be mindful of. Making sure an HTML email looks good in the most used email clients takes a lot of work.

To make crafting HTML emails a lot more enjoyable, the folks at Mailjet created a solution called MJML, which stands for "Mailjet Markup Language." It's an easy-to-use abstraction layer over HTML.

We have created a new package called spatie/mjml-php to easily convert MJML to HTML using PHP. If you're using Sidecar, you'll be happy to know that we've also created a package called spatie/mjml-sidecar, to convert MJML to HTML using Sidecar.

In this blog post, I'd like to introduce the package to you.

Livewire Real-time Presence!

Aug 21st 2023 – ahmedash.dev - submitted by Ahmed Ammar

Dive into a hands-on experiment with Laravel and Livewire, exploring real-time page presence. Discover how to let users see who's viewing the same content in real-time. Packed with code snippets.