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Make changes to the database during a Livewire Pest chain

Link – Nov 10th 2022 – stefrouschop.nl

A nice use case for tap

Laravel Mailcoach v6 has been released with a new UI and lots of improvements

Original – Nov 9th 2022 by Freek Van der Herten – 8 minute read

We're proud to announce that we have released v6 of the self-hosted version of Mailcoach.

If you have an active license, you'll be happy to know that this is a free upgrade. If you don't have a license, you can purchase it here.

In this blog post, I'd like to tell you all about the new features of this shiny new version.

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Introducing the Mailcoach SDKs for PHP and Laravel

Original – Nov 9th 2022 – mailcoach.app

You can now easily consume the Mailcoach API in your app using our SDK.

Generics via Attributes in PHP

Link – Nov 9th 2022 – pronskiy.com

A nice idea by Roman

A Composer tool to show unused Composer dependencies

Link – Nov 8th 2022 – github.com

When working in a big repository, you sometimes lose track of your required Composer packages. There may be so many packages you can't be sure if they are actually used or not. This tool can help to determine if you really are using a package.

I'm out of a job

Link – Nov 7th 2022 – calebporzio.com

A post by Caleb Porzio that resonated with me. I'm pretty sure that every creator feels this way at some point in time.

Are Your Queue Workers ... Working?

Link – Nov 4th 2022 – tighten.com - submitted by Jamison Valenta

Using queues in @laravelphp is great ... unless the queue has silently failed and you didn't even know about it 🚨 I'm going to show you a simple and lightweight strategy to notify you when a queue isn't processing jobs.

Understand and fix bugs faster using Ray

Link – Nov 3rd 2022

Here's a nice talk by Ruslan Steiger given at the Laravel Switzerland Meetup on how to use Ray.

How to build your next PHP project with a touch of AI

Link – Nov 2nd 2022 – benjamincrozat.com - submitted by Benjamin Crozat

AI (Artificial Intelligence) is a trending topic in the programming space. It enables developers to do incredible things, and lots of startups build products around it.

Wildcard subdomain SSL certificates with Let's Encrypt and Bunny DNS

Link – Nov 1st 2022 – rias.be - submitted by Rias

Creating wildcard subdomain SSL certificates isn't that straightforward with Let's encrypt as a normal SSL certificate.

Ask Me Anything About Laravel with Taylor Otwell

Link – Nov 1st 2022

In this fun AMA session with Taylor, you'll learn what Laravel Beep was going to be, the future of Inertia, and lots of nice tidbits on the Laravel ecosystem.

Automatically restart Horizon when local PHP files change

Original – Oct 31st 2022 by Freek Van der Herten – 3 minute read

We've released a new package called spatie/laravel-horizon-watcher. This one can automatically restart Horizon after any code change.

In this post, I'd like to share why we've built and how you can use it.

🚀 Mailcoach Cloud is now available: affordable email marketing for bloggers, Artisans, and entrepreneurs

Original – Oct 26th 2022 by Freek Van der Herten – 24 minute read

We're proud to announce that Mailcoach Cloud has been launched. Using Mailcoach, you can create beautiful email campaigns, set up drip campaigns (or any email automation), and send transactional emails.

Mailcoach works well, whether your email list has 5 or 500 000 subscribers (yes, Mailcoach has been used for lists of that size), or even more. And thanks to our sharp pricing, Mailcoach is the most affordable solution compared to our competitors in most scenarios.

Privacy-minded people will appreciate that open- and click tracking is off by default. And to people that require full GDPR compliance, we can proudly say that everything is hosted on EU servers owned by EU companies.

If you decide to subscribe, you can use this coupon code for one month free: ONEMONTHFREE. You can help us get the word out, by retweeting our launch tweet, or upvoting us on Product Hunt.

In this blog post, I'd like to share why we've built Mailcoach, how you can use it, and how we have built it.

Let's dig in!

Using table triggers to log changes in your database tables.

Link – Oct 25th 2022 – tray2.se - submitted by Patrik Ahlström

Tracking changes in a table or several tables for that matter can be essential for your application, and we are going to take a look on how to do that using only the MySQL/MariaDB database.

What's new in PHP 8.3? Take a sneak peek.

Link – Oct 24th 2022 – benjamincrozat.com - submitted by Benjamin Crozat

PHP 8.3 will be released in November 2023, and as usual, you need to be up to date with new features and breaking changes for easier transitions.

A Laravel package to add flags to Eloquent models

Original – Oct 21st 2022 by Freek Van der Herten – 5 minute read

I'm proud to announce that our team has released a new package called spatie/laravel-model-flags. This one makes it easy to add flags to any model in your app.

In this post, I'd like to share why we've built it and showcase its usage.

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