Laravel has an excellent Collection class that has many useful operations. The class is also macroable. This means that you can add function to it at runtime by calling macro on it and passing a name and a closure. In our projects we tend to code up the same macro's over and over again. That's why…
laravel-medialibrary is a package that can help handle media in a Laravel application. It can organise your files across multiple filesystems, generate thumbnails, optimize images and much much more. Like mentioned before on this blog my team and I are currently creating a new major version, v7,…
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laravel-medialibrary is a powerhouse package that can help handle media in a Laravel application. It can organise your files across multiple filesystems, generate thumbnails, optimize images and much much more. My team and I are hard at work creating a new major version, v7, that adds a lot of…
Let's talk a little bit about Symfony's dump function. It's part of their VarDumper component. The function can dump a variable to the screen or browser in a nicer format than PHP's native var_dump. In the recently released Symfony 3.4 and Symfony 4 the function got a nice little improvement that…
Using regular UUIDs stored as a text-based primary key is very slow. Our newly released package spatie/laravel-binary-uuid aims to solve that by binary storing a slightly tweaked version of the UUID. My colleague Brent wrote a blogpost describing how it works behind the scenes. He also included some interesting benchmarks.
The binary encoding of UUIDs solved most of the issue. There's one extra step to take though, which allows MySQL to even better index this field. By switching some of the bits in the UUID, more specifically time related data, we're able to save them in a more ordered way. And it seems that MySQL is especially fond of ordered data when creating indices.
https://www.stitcher.io/blog/optimised-uuids-in-mysql
Three years ago I started this blog to share my bookmarks and interesting links with fellow developers. Like on the previous anniversaries I'd like to share some cool statistics from the past 12 months. For the period spanning from end november 2016 until end november 2017 my little blog served 591…
???? Returning files from your cloud storage (or any other filesystem) as responses just got much easier in @laravelphp with the v5.5.22 release. Just return Storage::response($path) or Storage::download($path) and it will take care of it for you! ????https://t.co/xf8PxLYvFA pic.twitter.com/tHZJNxgzN1
— Jonathan Reinink (@reinink) 28 november 2017
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Laravel rockstar TJ Miller posted a short and sweet post how how he tested a middleware that forces requests to respond with JSON.
So what I’ve done here is define custom testing routes and applied the middleware as I would use it in the application routes, in this case global middleware and as middleware for the api group. This allows me to assert that the middleware is configured and functioning correctly.
https://medium.com/@sixlive/an-approach-to-testing-middleware-c547fc942848
PurgeCSS is a tool that can reduce the filesize of a CSS file. It does this by removing any css classes that are not used. It can detect which CSS classes are used by scanning the source files of your application. In this tweet Jonathan Reinink shared how it can be configured in Laravel Mix: ???? I…
Regular visitors will have noticed that last week this blog got a new coat of paint. This new layout isn't just a new WordPress theme. Things have changed on the backend as well. Previously my blog was powered by WordPress. I've migrated it to a custom built Laravel app. That app is open sourced.…
In this blogpost by Tailwind CSS co-creators Adam Wathan and Steve Schoger share lots of actionable tips to improve the layout of your site.
Laravel.io is a forum and community portal for developers who use the Laravel PHP framework.
They recently launched a brand new version of the site, but being a volunteer-driven open source project, finding the resources to put together a really polished design can be tough.
We asked and got the go ahead to try our hands at a bit of a facelift, so let’s see what we can do to take the UI up a notch!
https://medium.com/refactoring-ui/redesigning-laravel-io-c47ac495dff0
? TIL Eloquent's query builder has a whereBetween function#laravel #php pic.twitter.com/SyCXshL3Oe
— Freek Van der Herten (@freekmurze) November 5, 2017
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If you execute an Artisan command and something goes wrong, the error output is not terribly detailed.
You can improve the output slightly by tagging on -vvv to make to output more verbose.
Now we already know the line that where the problem originates: there's something going wrong on line 41 of the MyBrokenCommand command.
But we can improve the error output still. Nuno Maduro coded up a fantastic package called Collision that, once installed, provides much nicer output.
In this output we can immediately see what the silly programmer did wrong.
Let's hope that a future version of Laravel will be able to spit out these nicely formatted errors out of the box.
Tim MacDonald, a freelance software developer living in Australia, wrote down how he used our backup package to backup his Laravel and Wordpress sites.
I’m not going to run you through the standard setup or all the great features of the package here, you should definitely get your feet wet and give it a go. You’ll be up and running with backups in no time at all. From here on I’ll assume you’ve had some experience with the package, as to not over explain every step along the way…I do tend to rant off topic otherwise ?I wanted to have a standardised backup system in place for all my sites. This system would have to include Laravel and WordPress installs - so I tinkered with Spatie’s Laravel Backup package and have managed to get a single install of Laravel to backup all my sites independently, including my WordPress sites ?
https://timacdonald.me/backup-multiple-sites-frameworks-laravel-backup/
In his excellent talk given at Laracon Online 2017, Adam Wathan argues that testing in isolation leads to brittle test and that integration tests are much more valuable.
?❗ You can add custom methods to your #laravel policies and use them with "kebab-case". pic.twitter.com/cRjctkuI80
— Sven (@svenluijten) October 28, 2017
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My colleague Sebastian took the time to write down the solution to a problem many artisans will come across at some point in time. I hope that in a future version of Laravel that error message will be improved so that it makes clear what the actual problem really is.
Every now and then I come across a Class log does not exist exception in Laravel. This particular exception is thrown when something goes wrong really early in the application, before the exception handler is instantiated.Whenever I come across this issue I'm stumped. Mostly it's related to an invalid configuration issue or an early service provider that throws an exception. I always forget how to debug this, so it's time to document my solution for tracking down the underlying error.
Just a little reminder that Carbon is macroable in #Laravel 5.5 pic.twitter.com/6l7F883c7N
— Freek Van der Herten (@freekmurze) October 22, 2017
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Clockwork is Laravel package, made by itsgoingd, that can collect a lot of helpful info such as queries executed, views loaded, route used, ... Unlike the popular laravel-debugbar package, Clockwork will not inject extra stuff into the html itself. All collected info is displayed in the developer tools of your browser (you'll need to install an extension first).
Most of the sites we build for our clients contain some sort of contact form. For those client such forms are potentially critical to their business. Imagine for instance a real estate firm that generates leads with such forms. In most cases we will store the submitted values in the db and mail them…
