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Dynamic relationships in Laravel using subqueries

– reinink.ca

Jonathan Reininck wrote a cool article on how you can create dynamic releationships. This technique will keep the number of queries and the memory used to a minimum.

I hope that gives you a good overview of how you can use subqueries to create dynamic relationships in Laravel. This is a powerful technique that allows you to push more work into the database layer of your app. This can have a huge impact on performance by allowing you to drastically reduce the number of database queries executed and overall memory used.

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Failing gracefully on stage original

by Freek Van der Herten – 1 minute read

Here's a video of Surma having technical problems while presenting his State of Houdini talk. Luckily Jake Archibald and others "help" him out ? No matter how well you prepare a talk, you can always have technical difficulties. If you handle the failure gracefully, the public won't mind.…

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A better way to register routes in Laravel original

by Freek Van der Herten – 3 minute read

Let's take a look at how you can define routes to controllers in Laravel. By default you can do it like this: Route::get('my-route', 'MyController@index'); This will look for the MyController class in the App\Http\Controllers namespace. This default namespace is set up in Laravel's…

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Loading Eloquent relationship counts

– timacdonald.me

There are three ways of loading relationships in Laravel. Tim MacDonald, a freelance dev based in Sydney, explains them all.

It is often useful to show the number of related models a given instance has, but not actually need any specific information about the related models, just how many exist. In this scenario you do not want to load all of the related models into memory to count them, we want our database to do the heavy lifting for us. Laravel offers a number of ways to retrieve relationship counts.

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Are you sure you need entrust or laravel-permission to implement your authorization?

– adelf.pro

Some solid advice from Adel Faiz: do not use a package for authorization unless you really need its functionalities. Laravel's default authorization capabilities are good enough for most use cases.

I don't want to say these packages are useless. They can be useful for projects which needs complicated authorization system, which should be customizable by customer later. Also some projects need dynamic permissions. For all other projects it's too heavy solution. Better to use simple code-based authorization.

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Automatic monitoring of Laravel Forge managed sites

– ohdear.app

Oh Dear!, the monitoring service that my buddy Mattias and I run, now has the ability to auto import sites from Forge.

Forge recently introduced a feature called tags, whichs allows you to add custom tags to any server or site in Forge. We use those tags to determine which sites we should automatically add to your Oh Dear! Account. Every site or server tagged with oh-dear will be added. This allows you to still pick which sites should - or should not - get monitored.

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Making Nova fields translatable original

by Freek Van der Herten – 5 minute read

Laravel Nova is cool package to quickly create admin interfaces in a Laravel app. Unfortunately there's no support for multiple locales out of the box. A while ago we published a package called nova-translatable that makes any of the built in field types translatable. Using the package In order to…

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Laravel Telescope: Data too long for column ‘content’

– ma.ttias.be

Mattias explains a problem we recently encountered at Oh Dear with Telescope.

For Oh Dear!, we're using Laravel Telescope as a convenient way of tracking/displaying exceptions, runs, ... It stores its exceptions in the database, so you can easily view them again. It stores those in a TEXT field in MySQL, which is limited to 2^16 bytes, or 65536 bytes. Some of our exceptions tend to be pretty long, and they were hitting this limit.

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How to size & scale your Laravel Queues

– ohdear.app

My buddy Mattias and I run a monitoring service called Oh Dear! We plan on regularly writing cool stuff on the technical and commericial challenges we face. Here's the first post on how we scale our queues.

Laravel offers a convenient way to create asynchronous background tasks using its queues. We utilize those heavily at Oh Dear! for all our monitoring jobs and in this post we'll share some of our lessons learned and what we consider to be best practices.

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Our packages have been downloaded 20 million times original

by Freek Van der Herten – 3 minute read

At Spatie we do a lot of open source work. You can find a list of our packages on the open source section of our website. I'm proud to share that, according to Packagist, the Spatie packages have now been downloaded over 20 million times. The rate at which they are being downloaded is growing too.…

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Easily switch PHP versions in Laravel Valet original

by Freek Van der Herten – 2 minute read

Besides enjoying some greenfield work, we often have to work on legacy projects at Spatie too. Sometimes those projects don't run on the latest PHP version. I this blogpost I'd like to show you a way to switch PHP version easily when using Laravel Valet. (I know you could also use Docker or…

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