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Log all notifications sent by your Laravel app original

Feb 26th 2023 by Freek Van der Herten – 4 minute read

We've released a new package called Laravel Notification Log. True to its name, it will log when your Laravel app sends notifications. It also contains helpful methods to determine when notifications were sent.

When to use Laravel global scopes

Feb 22nd 2023 – stefrouschop.nl - submitted by Stef Rouschop

With a proper implementation of global scopes instead of local scopes, the code and security would be greatly improved. Let me illustrate this with a simple example.

Extending Laravel's about command

Feb 21st 2023 – james.brooks.page

You can easily add new information to Laravel's new "About" command

Extending PHPUnit with its new event system

Feb 21st 2023 – localheinz.com

A good intro on how to customize PHPUnit

Request Level Validation

Feb 15th 2023 – tighten.com - submitted by Jamison Valenta

Did you know it's possible to use Laravel's validation tools even when you're validating a part of your request that wasn't provided by the user? In our latest post, Andrew Morgan shares four approaches to validating the "other" bits of your requests.

How to secure model ID’s in Livewire and why this is important

Feb 13th 2023 – stefrouschop.nl - submitted by Stef Rouschop

One caveat in Livewire (version 1 and 2) is that only public properties remain state between Livewire interactions. This shouldn’t be a problem, at least not if you’re aware of how a potential hacker would abuse this.

Using Laravel Sanctum to create dynamic abilities original

Feb 8th 2023 by Freek Van der Herten – 12 minute read

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.

Disabling Composer's script process timeout

Feb 3rd 2023 – ryangjchandler.co.uk - submitted by Ryan Chandler

A quick way of disabling Composer's default script process timeout of 300 seconds (5 minutes). Easy to overlook in the docs.

You might not need a repository in Laravel: 3 alternatives

Feb 1st 2023 – medium.com - submitted by Mazen Touati

We will crack the controversy of the repository pattern in Laravel. The good and the bad, and what alternatives we can use to build a maintainable codebase.

A package to integrate HelpSpace in your Laravel app original

Jan 27th 2023 by Freek Van der Herten – 5 minute read

I'm happy to announce that we've released another new package: spatie/laravel-help-space. This one makes it easy to populate a custom sidebar in HelpSpace with the data from your Laravel app. In this blog post, I'd like to tell you all about it.

Writing a Static Analyser for PHP in Rust - Overview

Jan 25th 2023 – ryangjchandler.co.uk - submitted by Ryan Chandler

A new series on writing a static analyser for PHP in Rust.

Intro to Terminable Middleware

Jan 23rd 2023 – tighten.com - submitted by Jamison Valenta

Tighten programmer Alison shares an intro to terminable middleware in Laravel. This type of middleware does work after the HTTP response is sent to the browser. Learn when to use it, and a some gotchas.

Write cleaner queries by using Laravel's whereRelation method

Jan 20th 2023 – youtu.be - submitted by Bert De Swaef

Bert shows us a hidden Laravel gem!

Building a Calendar with Carbon

Jan 17th 2023 – tighten.com - submitted by Jamison Valenta

Let's walk through how to use Carbon, CarbonPeriod, and Laravel Collections to create a custom calendar in your Laravel apps.

Easy, alternative soft deletion: `deleted_record_insert`

Jan 17th 2023 – brandur.org

Here's a strategy for soft deletes where you move data to another table instead of leaving it in-place.

A package to automatically copy deleted records to a separate table original

Jan 16th 2023 by Freek Van der Herten – 5 minute read

We've released a new package called spatie/laravel-deleted-models. When deleting a model, this package will copy over its attributes to a table called deleted_models.

You can view this package as a "Recycle bin for models".

In this post, I'd like to tell you all about it.

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