Freek Van der Herten's blog on Laravel, PHP and AI

Creating a custom Laravel Pulse card

Dec 4th 2023 – aaronfrancis.com - submitted by Aaron Francis

A quick tutorial on how to create a custom Laravel Pulse card

Testing Abstract Classes in PHP using Anonymous Classes

Dec 1st 2023 – www.otsch.codes - submitted by Christian Olear

Abstract classes cannot be instantiated directly, posing a challenge when testing functionality implemented within the abstract class itself. In this article, I share my approach to addressing this issue.

Rendering Blade components in Markdown

Nov 30th 2023 – aaronfrancis.com - submitted by Aaron Francis

Rendering Laravel Blade components in markdown files.

Adding "Stale While Revalidate" functionality to Laravel's Cache

Nov 22nd 2023 – rias.be

Stale While Revalidate (SWR) is a strategy to first return the data from the cache, then send the fetch request, and finally come up with the up-to-date data.

Simplifying API Integration with Laravel's Http Facade

Nov 21st 2023 – seankegel.com - submitted by Sean Kegel

This article provides a guide on simplifying API integration in Laravel using the Http Facade, with a focus on building a reusable API request and client class.

Solving subdomain CORS issues after switching to Laravel Herd

Nov 20th 2023 – vanpachtenbeke.com

My colleague Niels solved a subtle problem when switching to Herd

Spatie's Black Friday Deals original

Nov 17th 2023 by Freek Van der Herten – 1 minute read

Like every year, we have some Black Friday discounts at Spatie. We made fun video about it.

Unorthodox Eloquent II

Nov 17th 2023 – muhammedsari.me - submitted by Muhammed Sari

Muhammed's been working with Eloquent for over half a decade now, and it's time to share his next bag of tricks. You are guaranteed to learn something new!

Best Practices for Using PHP Enumerations

Nov 16th 2023 – jeffochoa.me - submitted by Jeff

Although PHP Enumerations are meant to provide an easy and elegant solution to work with a predefined set of values, these classes are often misused, resulting in a lack of consistency due to the introduction of all sorts of methods that increase their complexity. In this article, we are going to go through some practices (both good and bad) with the goal of clarifying the understanding of these types of objects to help you build a more resilient and consistent codebase.

Leveraging CloudFlare Workers for Edge API Authentication

Nov 15th 2023 – flareapp.io - submitted by Spatie

Discover how we're using Cloudflare Workers to perform API authentication on the edge to make our infrastructure more cost-effective.

Preventing Duplicate Form Submissions Using Atomic Locks

Nov 14th 2023 – daryllegion.com - submitted by Daryl Legion

Duplicate form submissions or requests can be a common issue in web applications, often leading to unintended consequences. Laravel offers a straightforward solution to prevent these duplicates by using atomic locks.

The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Must Know About Unicode in 2023

Nov 13th 2023 – tonsky.me

No suprises here: UTF-8 is the most popular encoding for data in transfer and at rest.

Infinite Scroll with Livewire 3 and Alpine.js

Nov 10th 2023 – youtu.be - submitted by Bert De Swaef

in this video, we're transforming our load more button functionality to an infinite scroll using Alpine.js and more specifically we're using x-intersect to trigger our loadMore function.

Implementing Load More functionality with Livewire 3 in 2 minutes.

Nov 8th 2023 – youtu.be - submitted by Bert De Swaef

In this video you'll learn how to implement "load more" functionality with Livewire 3 in about 2 minutes.

Build a Quick & Easy Instant Search UI With Alpine AJAX & Laravel

Nov 6th 2023 – imacrayon.com - submitted by Christian Taylor

How to easily progressively enhance an instant search component with Alpine AJAX so that it works with or without JavaScript available.

Juggling Databases When Testing With Laravel: Tackling the Lock Wait Timeout Error

Nov 3rd 2023 – www.conroyp.com - submitted by Paul Conroy

Writing tests to validate behaviour in a multi-tenancy, multi-database app can be challenging. "Lock wait timeout" errors, or transactions cleaned up in one db and not another - it can be very frustrating! Fortunately, Laravel has a way to support db transactions across multiple databases.

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