How to make your Laravel app AI-agent friendly
A comprehensive guide to making your Laravel app work well with AI agents. Covers llms.txt, markdown responses, structured data, and coding guidelines.
Read more [hafiz.dev]
Let AI Interact with Your App via MCP
– tighten.com - submitted by Kayla Helmick
We’ve moved from command lines to GUIs, and now the next shift is here: AI that can actually use your app. This article introduces the Model Context Protocol (MCP), a powerful way to let AI interact directly with your applications—and why it’s more than just another tech acronym.
Read more [tighten.com]
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How the Model Context Protocol works?
MCP is not a hosted service, a replacement for app logic, or a fix for hallucinations. It is a protocol that provides access to real tools and data, and still requires good prompts and UX
Read more [alexop.dev]
Exploring our new PHP SDK, built using Saloon
I've recently rebuilt the SDK for Oh Dear, and thanks to Saloon I had a great time downing so.
Read more [ohdear.app]
Laravel Headless API + React Frontend: Full Stack Tour de France Tutorial
– youtu.be - submitted by Bert De Swaef
🚴♂️ Build a Full Stack App with Laravel + React! In this tutorial, you'll create a Laravel Headless API and connect it to a React frontend to display 2025 Tour de France etappes (stages).
Read more [youtu.be]
Stripe Is My DNS Provider Now: When Good APIs Meet Bad Ideas
– www.conroyp.com - submitted by Paul Conroy
Stripe metadata is great for config, entitlements, and... DNS? This experiment takes one good API feature and stretches it into the worst possible infrastructure layer.
Read more [www.conroyp.com]
API design note: Beware of adding an “Other” enum value
Beware of "Other"!
Read more [devblogs.microsoft.com]
Handling large JSON payloads and extending the Request class
– geoligard.com - submitted by Goran Popović
See how to easily modify and override methods found in the framework's Request class in order to handle specific routes with sizeable payloads.
Read more [geoligard.com]
Geography in Laravel: retrieving geographical data
– gummibeer.dev - submitted by Tom Witkowski
How to retrieve any geographical data from OpenStreetMap and transform them into usable PHP objects.
Read more [gummibeer.dev]
Testing Saloon API Integrations in Laravel
– ashallendesign.co.uk - submitted by Ash Allen
Learn how to fake and record HTTP responses so you can test your Saloon API integration in your Laravel applications.
Read more [ashallendesign.co.uk]
Sending transactional emails using Mailcoach API in an Express.js application
– mailcoach.app - submitted by Spatie
Read more [mailcoach.app]
Using Laravel to interact with OpenAI's Assistants API (with Vision)
– geoligard.com - submitted by Goran Popović
A step-by-step guide on how to utilize the new Assistants and Vision APIs with Laravel.
Read more [geoligard.com]
Streamlining API Responses in Laravel with DTOs
– seankegel.com - submitted by Sean Kegel
A comprehensive guide for creating custom Data Transfer Objects (DTOs) to enhance readability, efficiency, and testability in Laravel API integrations.
Read more [seankegel.com]
API Versioning in Laravel
– blog.treblle.com - submitted by Steve McDougall
Learn how to version your Laravel APIs properly in this walk through tutorial.
Read more [blog.treblle.com]
Simplifying API Integration with Laravel's Http Facade
– seankegel.com - submitted by Sean Kegel
This article provides a guide on simplifying API integration in Laravel using the Http Facade, with a focus on building a reusable API request and client class.
Read more [seankegel.com]
Leveraging CloudFlare Workers for Edge API Authentication
– flareapp.io - submitted by Spatie
Discover how we're using Cloudflare Workers to perform API authentication on the edge to make our infrastructure more cost-effective.
Read more [flareapp.io]
Usage Laravel and ChatGPT "Function calling"
– dev.to
Recently, OpenAI released an update for ChatGPT, introducing new features that allow developers to describe language model functions. Let's leverage this new functionality in Laravel
Read more [dev.to]
Sending a request with HMAC SHA256 signature using Postman
Here's how my colleague Ruben managed to do this in Flare.
Read more [rubenvanassche.com]
Let's build a ChatGPT Plugin with Laravel
– barreto.jp - submitted by Juan Pablo
Tutorial on building your first ChatGPT plugin with Laravel step by step.
Read more [barreto.jp]
Using Laravel Sanctum to create dynamic abilities original
In Oh Dear, we recently added the ability to create fine-grained API tokens that are scoped by a model. Behind the scenes, it uses Laravel Sanctum to create and verify abilities.
In this blog post, I'd like to give you a peek behind the scenes and show how we set this up.
