How to Review Laravel Code
February 1, 2025Good code is like a good conversation ... clear, concise, and easy to follow.
Shutting down Packagist.org support for Composer 1.x
February 1, 2025Composer 1.x has served the PHP community well, but with Composer 2.0 released four years ago in October 2020, it's time to move forward. As of today, more than 95% of Composer updates are using v2, benefiting from its significant improvements in performance, memory usage, and security.
How adding Type Declarations makes Your Code Dangerous
June 14, 2024...and how to avoid it.
Type coverage is a way to gradually add type declarations to your PHP project—step by step, one by one. It's a PHPStan package that helps you maintain a specific minimal level from 0 % to 100 %.
Once we reach high coverage of 80-90 %, we feel safer. But our code can actually be in worse, even dangerous, shape.
Once we reach high coverage of 80-90 %, we feel safer. But our code can actually be in worse, even dangerous, shape.
The difference between Policies and FormRequest::authorize()
November 25, 2023In Laravel, both policies and the FormRequest::authorize() method are used to control access to specific resources or actions within your application. However, they serve slightly different purposes and are typically used in different contexts.
Why Are Eloquent Timestamps Nullable?
November 25, 2023Recently I was creating a new table and using the timestamps helper in the migration. I noticed something that seemed wrong, so I dug a little deeper and learned something new about Laravel and MySQL.
Introducing the Laravel Number Utility Class
November 20, 2023In many applications, there's often a need to format numbers according to different requirements, such as displaying them as currency, percentages, or human-readable file sizes. Laravel didn't have a dedicated utility for this, so with the help of the community, I decided to create one. I've been working on this utility class for a a little while now, and am really excited that it was merged into the framework. Let's take a look at what it offers.
Laravel Pipelines
August 29, 2023Pipeline is one of Laravel's less-known features. It's often used in the framework itself, for example routing, but not so many developers use it. In this article, I try to explain them, and show some examples.
A look at what's coming to Laravel 11
July 26, 2023Laravel 11 is not scheduled to be released until the end of the year, but some new features have been shared out, and Taylor goes through some big new improvements in his Laracon keynote:
Laravel 10 Requires Composer ^2.2
April 23, 2023Composer 1 has been officially deprecated for several months and is no longer compatible with PHP 8.2.
What's new in PHP 8.3
April 19, 2023PHP 8.3 will be released on November 23, 2023; it has improvements to readonly classes, the new json_validate() function, additions to the recently added Randomizer class, stack overflow detection, and more.
Comparing two database columns in Laravel
April 19, 2023When you want to compare two database columns in Laravel, you can’t use where because it treats the argument you’re comparing to as a value.
Facilitating External Process Execution with Laravel's Process Facade: A Practical Guide
February 27, 2023Laravel is one of the most popular PHP frameworks out there, and for good reason. It provides a powerful set of tools that make it easy to build complex web applications quickly and efficiently. One of the core concepts in Laravel is the idea of facades. Facades provide a simple way to access complex objects in a more intuitive and user-friendly way. In this article, we'll take a closer look at facades in Laravel and how they can be used to simplify your code.
Spatie Image Optimizer Health Check
January 29, 2023Sometimes you figure out why the uploaded image is not progressive, while you use a media-library to handle the upload. This check will help you figure out if tools are installed on your server.
Leading slashes in .gitignore
November 21, 2022This is a friendly reminder to keep leading slashes in mind in .gitignore files.
Generics via Attributes in PHP — Can We Have Them?
November 10, 2022tl;dr: How about using generics in PHP attributes?
What's new in PHP 8.2?
November 8, 2022PHP 8.2 is right around the corner — let's take a look at what's new!
What's new in Laravel 10?
October 12, 2022Sorting Table with spatie/eloquent-sortable in Filament
September 16, 2022When using spatie/eloquent-sortable, you have a extensive sorting function to your eloquent.
Eloquent MySQL views
August 20, 2022MySQL views are a way of storing queries on the database level, and producing virtual tables with them. In this post we'll look at why you want to use them and how they can be integrated in Laravel with Eloquent models.
Laravel: New DB Commands
August 9, 2022Following last week's release which focused on Artisan, this week's Laravel v9.24 release introduces three new database commands we think you will love.
Optimal Laravel Pint Configuration
August 9, 2022Base on my experience, this is what I'm usually coding style before laravel pint.
Laravel Packages that Helps you Improve Applications
August 3, 2022Coding can be a tedious task, and it's easy to get lost in the endless string of code. But there are tools out there that can help you streamline your workflow and make coding easier.
New Laravel Doc Command
August 3, 2022Released on v9.23. when running `php artisan doc collection` it will open the Laravel Collection documentation on your favorite browser.
12 Best Linux Distros For Programming in 2022
July 25, 2022Linux is a Unix-like operating system that was originally created by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution. It is free and open source.
10 Settings to Simplify Work In PhpStorm in 2022
July 25, 2022PhpStorm has a lot of great settings simplifying the developer’s work. But some very convenient settings are turned off by default. On the other hand, some rarely used ones are turned on by default. It could make work with the IDE slower than it could be.
Is PHP dead?
July 21, 2022Laravel: New "about" Command
July 20, 2022After introducing a fresh new look for Artisan, we also took some time to identify new Artisan commands to improve your Laravel experience. We know - we're kind of obsessed.
Laravel: New "model:show" Command
July 20, 2022As you may know, we recently introduced a fresh new look for Artisan. But, we're not quite done with our flurry of console improvements.
Laravel: Refreshing Artisan
July 20, 2022Today's Laravel v9.21.0 release introduces an amazing new look for Artisan. In fact, almost all of the built-in Artisan commands have been totally reimagined to deliver a better experience.
The evolution of PHP: from PHP 5.6 to PHP 8.2
July 19, 2022I've got a pretty good example to illustrate how much PHP has changed over the past decade.
Laravel Pint v1.0 Released
July 16, 2022As you may have noticed a few weeks ago, we've open-sourced our latest package - Laravel Pint: an opinionated PHP code style fixer for minimalists. Pint is built on top of PHP-CS-Fixer and makes it simple to ensure that your code style stays clean and consistent.
Introducing our new Laravel Options package
July 10, 2022When developing web applications, you probably encounter a lot of places where someone needs to select one or more options in a select or multi-select. These select boxes always need a list of options with labels and values.
Lumen Will Not Longer Maintain Anymore
March 10, 2022Lumen will sunseting in the near future, so starting with a new project, lumen is now not recommended to use it as a api application.
Handling Large Payload for Testing API
October 22, 2021Generating test suite payload of large API can be mind-numbing if not implemented properly. Let us take a look on how to handle this in the best possible way.
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