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🚀 Mailcoach Cloud is now available: affordable email marketing for bloggers, Artisans, and entrepreneurs

Oct 26th 2022 by Freek Van der Herten – 24 minute read

We're proud to announce that Mailcoach Cloud has been launched. Using Mailcoach, you can create beautiful email campaigns, set up drip campaigns (or any email automation), and send transactional emails.

Mailcoach works well, whether your email list has 5 or 500 000 subscribers (yes, Mailcoach has been used for lists of that size), or even more. And thanks to our sharp pricing, Mailcoach is the most affordable solution compared to our competitors in most scenarios.

Privacy-minded people will appreciate that open- and click tracking is off by default. And to people that require full GDPR compliance, we can proudly say that everything is hosted on EU servers owned by EU companies.

If you decide to subscribe, you can use this coupon code for one month free: ONEMONTHFREE. You can help us get the word out, by retweeting our launch tweet, or upvoting us on Product Hunt.

In this blog post, I'd like to share why we've built Mailcoach, how you can use it, and how we have built it.

Let's dig in!

A Laravel package to add flags to Eloquent models

Oct 21st 2022 by Freek Van der Herten – 5 minute read

I'm proud to announce that our team has released a new package called spatie/laravel-model-flags. This one makes it easy to add flags to any model in your app.

In this post, I'd like to share why we've built it and showcase its usage.

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Automatically setup your favorite email provider in Mailcoach

Oct 10th 2022 – mailcoach.app

In Mailcoach Cloud and the upcoming v6 of the self-hosted version of Mailcoach, we've made it much simpler to connect an email-sending service to Mailcoach.

A package to manage dynamic servers

Sep 26th 2022 by Freek Van der Herten – 6 minute read

I'm proud to announce that our team has released a new package called laravel-dynamic-servers.

This package can help start and stop servers when you need them. The prime use case is to spin up extra working servers to help you process the workload on queues.

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

Exploring Laravel Stubs

Sep 19th 2022

Here's a nice video from Povilas in which he explores our spatie/laravel-stubs package.

I shall define this only once

Sep 18th 2022 by Freek Van der Herten – 1 minute read

Here's my talk on our popular Laravel Data package, which I gave at Laracon Online earlier this week.

Creating installer commands for Laravel packages

Sep 7th 2022 by Freek Van der Herten – 5 minute read

One of the joys of using packages in the Laravel ecosystem is how easy they are to install. Packages can be pulled in using Composer, and Laravel will automatically discover them.

In this post, you'll learn how to easily add an install command, making it even easier for package users to start using a package.

Getting information about all the models in your Laravel app

Sep 7th 2022 by Freek Van der Herten – 2 minute read

I'm proud to announce that our team has released a new small package: spatie/laravel-model-info. Let's take a look at what this package can do.

How the Laravel Login Link package works under the hood

Aug 4th 2022

Povilas Korop of Laravel Daily made a cool video on the internals of our spatie/laravel-login-link package.

Making sure routes, config and events of your Laravel app are cached in production

Jul 18th 2022 by Freek Van der Herten – 3 minute read

A typical Laravel application will likely have many routes, config files and possibly some events. In your development environment, these routes and config files will be loaded and registered in each request. The performance penalty for this is not too big. In a production environment, you want to…

Introducing our new Laravel Options package

Jul 8th 2022 by Ruben Van Assche – 2 minute read

When developing web applications, you probably encounter a lot of places where someone needs to select one or more options in a select or multi-select. These select boxes always need a list of options with labels and values.

In one of our projects, we had options being generated in lots of places. Sometimes these lists of options were the same, leading to a lot of code duplication. Even worse, in some cases, different formats were used to output the same options.

That's why we've created a new package called spatie/laravel-options. It will take a resource which can create options such as an enum, a list of models or even a plain array. And will always create a standardized array of options you can use within your frontend application.

Add comments to SQL queries made by Laravel

Jul 4th 2022

We've released a new package called spatie/laravel-sql-commenter. This one can add comments to SQL queries. These comments allow you to easily pinpoint the origin of a query when looking at your query log.

Encrypting Laravel Eloquent models with CipherSweet

Jul 1st 2022 – rias.be

We've just released laravel-ciphersweet. This package is a wrapper over CipherSweet, which allows you to easily use it with Laravel's Eloquent models.

Introducing sidecar-browsershot

Jun 30th 2022 – stefanzweifel.io - submitted by Stefan Zweifel

A short introduction to sidecar-browsershot package: How it works and for what it can be used for.

Building social images with Browsershot and AWS

Jun 27th 2022 – yoeri.me - submitted by Yoeri

Creating social images for your website is super simple using Browsershot and AWS Lambda.

Using the `Attachable` interface to attach any kind of object to a mail in a Laravel app

Jun 26th 2022 by Freek Van der Herten – 4 minute read

Laravel 9 has gained a excellent new way to attach files in mails. Using the Attachable interface, you can specify what should happen when an object gets used as an attachment.

Using our media library package you can easily associate any file with an Eloquent model. We've added support for Laravel's Attachable in the latest version of the package.

In this blog post, I'd like to tell you all about it.

Highlighting code using Sidecar & Shiki

Jun 26th 2022 – rias.be

Shiki is a beautiful syntax highlighter powered by the same language engine that many code editors use. We've just released a package that allows you to run Shiki on AWS Lambda through Sidecar.

A Laravel package to onboard your users

Jun 21st 2022 – rias.be

Onboarding your users is one of the most important things you can do in your SaaS or application. After all, first impressions matter! Caleb Porzio has created an onboard package for Laravel which we (at Spatie) recently took over development and maintenance on.

Upgrading to native PHP enums

Jun 20th 2022 – tomasvotruba.com

Tomas Votruba explains how you can refactor old enum classes (from Spatie and MyCLabs) to native PHP enums

Using login links in a Laravel app

May 30th 2022 by Freek Van der Herten – 3 minute read

I'm proud to announce that our team has launched a new package called spatie/laravel-login-link.

In this blog post, I'd like to tell you all about it.