Laravel
7 Laravel Packages to Supercharge your Models
We cook, eat, think and build Software daily as Engineers. Several times, we come across new challenges, new features that invokes serious thinking, new problems that almost brings our brains to a screeching halt as a result of its complexity. As a developer using Laravel to build software, you are often faced with creating Models and Migrations [...]
Introducing Laravel Hackathon Starter Pack
Software Developers are unarguably one of the smartest beings in the world. A lot of thinking, analysis and calculations are done by this folks on a daily basis and in turn lots of applications ( mobile, web, command line) are developed that continously makes the world a better & fun place to live in. Anyways, enough of the hype! Even [...]
Test Driven Laravel From Scratch
TDD is a very important part of the software development cycle. Laravel 5 came with a lot of changes and part of those changes involved integrating Jeffery way’s testing integrated package into the Laravel Core which has made integration testing a bliss. The fact still remains that there a lot of people that really don’t know how [...]
Append scheduled tasks output in Laravel 5.2
This is a series of posts that showcase new features and aha moments in Laravel 5.2 1. Implicit Route Model Binding 2. Simplified Eloquent Global Scopes 3. Append Scheduled Tasks Output 4. Form Array Validation 5. Middleware Groups 6. Auth Scaffolding 7. Api Rate Limiting 8. More helper functions The Artisan Scheduler was a brand new killer [...]
How to handle logs and reports in your app using Laravel 5 – Part 2
We Built a ShoutPad a.k.a ShoutBox in Part 1. Now, you can log anything in your app. From the creation of users, to users editing their profiles, to deletion of accounts to ever event happening in your app. In this tutorial, we’ll log users giving shoutouts. I’ll show you how to log to a file and to external services using Laravel [...]
Laravel 5.1 Beginner QuickStart is Here!
Laravel is an amazing framework. It is simple, easy and very elegant. The framework does a lot of the heavy-lifting for you already. One good thing I love about Laravel is the community and how members of the community strive to make the learning process easier and simpler daily. Taylor Otwell created a nice documentation for 4.2, and improved [...]
How to build a Project Management App in Laravel 5 – Part 7
When you click on a project to see the details, it shows the tasks, files and comments form. Let’s see how we can add tasks to each Project. Create a new folder named tasks in the views directory and create a form.blade.php inside the tasks directory. Move the part of the show.blade.php that has to do with the task form into form.blade.php [...]
Introducing Laravel Mentions
One of my friends on facebook contacted me about the possibility of having a laravel package that can help implement facebook and Slack’s way of mentioning users. Once a user uses the @ with some words, an autocomplete pops up with the list of potential users that might be referred to. On facebook and Slack, the other user actually gets [...]
Introducing Laravel Spark: Alpha Release
This is an alpha, experimental release of Spark. Things will change. Things will break. Thank you for testing Yes, the much talked about Laravel Spark has finally been released. It’s the Alpha release with a better and solidified API. I’ll quickly give you an overview of Laravel Spark and how to use it for quick business SAAS application. [...]
Keep Your Copyright up to date with Laravel-Yearly
Robby Russell has already mentioned it in his blog post here. How many times have you realized that your Copyright date/year on your website/app was no longer current? How many of you have the same problem year after year? How many of you constantly find yourself going to change it every year? How many of you are always been reminded by [...]