My colleague Brent explains how you can easily work with MySQL views in Laravel.
MySQL views are a way of storing queries on the database level, and producing virtual tables with them. In this post we'll look at why you want to use them and how they can be integrated in Laravel with Eloquent models.
Read more [stitcher.io]
Laracon US was held in July 2018 at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago. I had the pleasure of speaking at the conference. You can watch my talk on v7 of our medialibrary below. Though there isn't a playlist to hold them yet, you can view recordings of all other talks on the StreamACon…
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Introducing our Laravel Nova packages Laravel Nova is a beautiful admin panel that was first showcased at Laracon 2018 by Laravel creator Taylor Otwell. Using Nova building rich admin panels is a breeze. Nova was released today. Taylor was kind enough to give us early access to Nova shortly after…
How about this? pic.twitter.com/JkKVBgfOtZ
— Dave Yoakum (@dawiyo) 1 August 2018
You can even write it shorter as User::latest()->value('name');
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Till Krüss released a cool Alfred workflow to easily search the docs. Here it is in action.
Behind the scenes it uses an Algolia index to retrieve the results. I've been only using it for a day and I can't image how I could have lived without this so long.
https://github.com/tillkruss/alfred-laravel-docs
Laravel Shift is a service that can help upgrade a Laravel app. The creator of the service, Jason McCreary, published some interesting statistics on the Laravel apps that were upgraded by the service.
At the time of this writing, Shift has upgraded over 8,500 Laravel apps. Every time a Shift runs a log file is created. Initially, these log files were for debugging. A way for me to not only offer support, but log events that let me know how I might improve the services.
Read more [jason.pureconcepts.net]
At Laracon US 2018 [Taylor Otwell] introduced Laravel Nova, a very shiny admin panel for Laravel applications.
I’m thrilled to announce the newest member of the Laravel ecosystem: Laravel Nova. Nova is a beautifully designed administration panel for Laravel. We’ve sweat the small details and carefully crafted Nova to not only look great, but to be a joy to work with.
Read more [medium.com]
In season 3 of the Laravel podcast Matt Stauffer interviews people in the Laravel community. I had the pleasure of being the guest on the latest episode.
You can listen to the entire thing here: http://www.laravelpodcast.com/db8ee53b
For the first time in 4 years we completely redesigned our company website. We launched it today. The site is a simple Laravel app with some technical niceties. True to form we also open sourced the app, you can find the code in this repo on GitHub. In this blogpost I'd like you to give you a tour…
Marcel Pociot, serial open source creator, released another cool Laravel package.
When your Laravel project grows, so do the Laravel views. Sometimes it might be hard to figure out, which part of the output HTML was rendered using which template. With this package, you can take a peek into your Laravel views and find out which template is responsible for which part of the output HTML.
Read more [github.com]
? Tip: the `abort` helper in @laravelphp can take any `Response` object!
— Joseph Silber (@joseph_silber) 19 juli 2018
Especially useful for redirection, since the `redirect` & `back` helpers only work in top-level controller methods.
When in a supporting method from which you can't `return`, use the `abort` helper ? pic.twitter.com/dFwhhXz211
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In most applications you store the state of the application in the database. If something needs to change you simply update values in a table. When using event sourcing you'll take a different approach. All changes to application state are stored as a series of events. The key benefit is that you…
A lesser-known @laravelphp feature: You can define your IDE/editor in your config/app.php file to let the Whoops error handler allow you to open files directly from within the error message. pic.twitter.com/My0BUjTIrM
— Marcel Pociot (@marcelpociot) 10 juli 2018
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In an older post on his blog Mohammed Said, Laravel Employee #1, shares a cool trick on how to avoid having to create an event listener.
Instead of having to create a class for the listener and another for the notification/mailable, wouldn't it be cool if we can register the Notification/Mailable as an event listener? ... While some may consider this an anti-SRP hack I think it's a pretty neat implementation that you can use in your application to prevent creating an extra listener class, your call :)
Read more [themsaid.com]
Andrew Schmelyun collected some cool Eloquent niceties.
Over the last year or so, I’ve been collecting and (sometimes) tweeting about methods and helpers I’ve stumbled across in Laravel’s Eloquent ORM. Most of these aren’t that obvious in the documentation, but have made a huge impact as my applications have grown in both size and complexity.
Read more [medium.com]
?? Who knew, Laravel's string helper class can generate uuids - woot!
— Caleb Porzio (@calebporzio) July 5, 2018
If you care, here's my UUID model trait I use (the packages are too heavy handed for me) https://t.co/L8Il1sH5VA pic.twitter.com/K6OwkHKQBD
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Marcel Pociot created another great package. laravel-dump-server will transmit all output of dump calls to another port on your system. This will avoid cluttering up the responses of your app with debug output. Here's a gif taken from the readme of the package:
https://github.com/beyondcode/laravel-dump-server
The last few months I've been working on a package called laravel-event-projector. This package aims to be a simple and very pragmatic way to get started with event sourcing in Laravel. Ahead of it's release, which will happen in a few days, I've recorded a small video introduction. You can find the…
Joseph Silber, a very active Laravel contributor, has written a new blogpost on morph maps, a feature to decouple your database from your model class names.
Polymorphic relations let you set up a relationship between many different model types, without the need for extra tables. This works by storing the "morphable type" (explained below) in the database, in addition to the morphable type's ID. By default, the morphable type stored in the database is the model's full class name. While this works, it tightly couples your database to your PHP application. Let's look at how we can instruct Eloquent to use more generic values for these morphable types.
Read more [josephsilber.com]
I often use Eloquent's `query` just to have the code better aligned#visualdebtisreal pic.twitter.com/0JWrzx6wEN
— Freek Van der Herten (@freekmurze) 2 juli 2018
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