Posts tagged with spatie
by Freek Van der Herten – 4 minute read – Edit
To get the backtrace in PHP, you can use the debug_backtrace function. By default, it can be hard to work with. Using our newly released spatie/backtrace package, this becomes much simpler.
Let's dive in!
by Freek Van der Herten – 14 minute read – Edit
I'm proud to announce that Media Library Pro is now available. Media Library Pro is an add-on package for our free Media Library base package. It contains a set of Blade, Vue and React components that make it easy to upload files to media library and to manage files inside of a media library collection.
In this blog post, I'd like to introduce Media Library Pro to you.
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by Freek Van der Herten – 4 minute read – Edit
We have released a new package, called spatie/laravel-settings, that allows you to strongly type settings in a Laravel app. In this blog post, I'd like to introduce the package to you.
by Freek Van der Herten – 2 minute read – Edit
For a project, I needed to make sure that a particular piece of data actually came from a specific source. There are already many packages that allow you to do this, but most are not fun or easy to use. That's why we created a new package called spatie/crypto to do this.
by Freek Van der Herten – 1 minute read – Edit
Together with my colleague Brent, I've created Front Line PHP, a book and video course on building modern applications with PHP 8. You can purchase the book here.
The video course is entirely free. Head over to our website to see videos on all new major PHP 8 features.
by Freek Van der Herten – 3 minute read – Edit
I've just released a new major version of the spatie/once package. This version uses the WeakMap class which is introduced in PHP 8. In this short post I'd like explain why this change was made.
by Freek Van der Herten – 5 minute read – Edit
At Spatie, we want to stimulate contributing to our open source stuff. That's why we said that we'd give away some of our paid products for free to authors of the best PRs we got in October. In a way, it's our own small version of Hacktoberfest.
In this blog post, I'd like to announce the winners.
by Freek Van der Herten – 1 minute read – Edit
When handling uploads, a traditional input type of file has some downsides. In this streaming session I did yesterday, I explain those problems and share how they can be fixed using the upcoming Media Library Pro.
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Jess has created a cool laravel-castable-data-transfer-object package. In this blog post she explains in great details how it works.
Read more [jessarcher.com]
by Freek Van der Herten – 8 minute read – Edit
I'm proud to announce the release of our newest package Laravel Backup Server. This paid package can backup several servers at once. When a backup contains files also present in a previous backup, deduplication using hard links will be performed. Even though you will see full backups in the…
by Freek Van der Herten – 7 minute read – Edit
We've already covered a lot of ground in this series. Let's finish by highlighting some miscellaneous interesting tidbits.
by Freek Van der Herten – 7 minute read – Edit
Our company has created a lot of open-source packages. At the moment of writing, we have over 200 packages, which have been downloaded nearly 100 million times. Because we think the package users might be interested in our paid offerings as well, we've put a small ad in the readme of each repo. In this blogpost I'll explain how we manage these ads using Laravel Nova and S3.
by Freek Van der Herten – 6 minute read – Edit
We'd like to stay in touch with the people interested in our products by sending them emails when we got some news on an upcoming product, or when we are running a promo for existing products. To handle subscriptions and send out emails, we use our home-grown Laravel package Mailcoach. Let's take a look at how we use Mailcoach ourselves.
by Freek Van der Herten – 5 minute read – Edit
On our site you'll find the documentation of our bigger bigger packages, like laravel-medialibrary, laravel-backup, laravel-event-sourcing, ... Let's take a look at how that works.
by Freek Van der Herten – 5 minute read – Edit
On our website, we have a video section. All our videos uploaded to and handled via Vimeo where we have a Pro subscription. We chose Vimeo because it has an excellent widget to display videos, it converts our videos very fast, and it has a nice API to work with. Let's take a look at how Vimeo is integrated in our site.
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by Freek Van der Herten – 5 minute read – Edit
On our Laravel powered company website we sell digital products: video courses, e-books, and software packages. Behind the scenes we use Laravel, Paddle, Vimeo, the GitHub API and a couple of other things.
We've open-sourced our site. You'll find the actual code we have deployed in the spatie-be repo on GitHub. In this blog post, I'll guide you through the code.
by Freek Van der Herten – 7 minute read – Edit
Some of our products, like Mailcoach and Media Library Pro, are PHP packages for which people can buy a time-limited license. Of course, we want customers to be able to install our paid packages using Composer. Our paid packages are not registered on Packagist, because Packagist is meant to be used for free packages, and there's no way to handle licenses. Let's take a look at how we can solve this using Satis.
