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Dynamically build Mail, DB, and Cache configurations in Laravel

Nov 29th 2024 – amitmerchant.com

Laravel’s new build() methods allow dynamic configuration of mail, database, and cache settings.

Laravel Custom Query Builders Over Scopes

Nov 28th 2024 – blog.oussama-mater.tech

While scopes are useful for simple queries, custom query builders are preferred for complex or frequently used queries.

What's new in PHP 8.4

Nov 25th 2024 – stitcher.io

PHP 8.4 was released last week. Here's what's new.

Playtime with PHP Attributes

Nov 21st 2024 – jump24.co.uk

Attributes are a fun and powerful feature of PHP.

Building Maintainable PHP Applications: Data Transfer Objects

Nov 20th 2024 – davorminchorov.com - submitted by Davor Minchorov

Learn about data transfer objects, why they are useful and why it's better to use them over arrays.

Using Ray with your Pest tests

Nov 7th 2024 – myray.app - submitted by Spatie

The magic behind Laravel's new defer() helper

Nov 6th 2024 – www.amitmerchant.com

Here's how Laravel's defer() function, which was introduced a few months ago, works behind the scenes.

Embedding Blade inside of Markdown content

Nov 5th 2024 – ryangjchandler.co.uk

Here's a neat solution by Ryan Chandler

A Case For Custom Collections

Oct 16th 2024 – alsterholm.com - submitted by Andreas Alsterholm

A blog post explaining some benefits (and drawbacks) of using custom Eloquent collections.

Property Hooks Are Coming To PHP 8.4

Oct 15th 2024 – www.phparch.com

A nice video demoing a cool new feature coming to PHP 8.4

To double quote or not, that's the question!

Oct 9th 2024 – dev.to

Spoiler: it doesn't really matter anymore as long as you're using a modern version of PHP

Using 1password for Laravel environment variables

Oct 8th 2024 – flareapp.io

Here's how we handle secrets at Flare

CPX - Composer Package Executor

Oct 4th 2024 – cpx.dev - submitted by Liam Hammett

Run Composer packages, effortlessly. No need to install tools into your app or as global dependencies.

A Guide to Laravel Pipelines

Oct 1st 2024 – ashallendesign.co.uk - submitted by Ash Allen

Learn how to use the Pipeline class in Laravel to break complex workflows into smaller, isolated, focused processes. We'll then look at how to test our Laravel pipelines.

Optimizing Eloquent: Accessor Caching and Value Objects in Laravel

Sep 30th 2024 – www.harrisrafto.eu - submitted by Harris Raftopoulos

Laravel's accessor caching with shouldCache() boosts performance by preventing repetitive computations for expensive accessors. Additionally, you can work with complex data like addresses using value objects, and Laravel will auto-sync changes back to the model. This improves code efficiency and maintainability, especially for structured data.

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