Laravel
Debugging your PHP Applications
Currently, there are several PHP developers that try to debug using var_dump. Common we are in 2015, the year of THE SLAYER and DRAGON BLADE. It’s time to wield that sword in different directions to see what’s possible in PHP. One way of debugging your PHP applications is using XDebug. XDebug is fantastic, it can be enabled on [...]
Using Twitter Authentication For Login in Laravel 5
Previously, we dealt with Facebook Authentication. Let’s see how we can utilize the Socialite package for Twitter Authentication: 1. Do a clean install of Laravel 5 2. Install Socialite [crayon-59bb64c4e4e41171086404/] 3. Head over to your config/app.php and add the following in the providers array: [crayon-59bb64c4e4e4f772101701/] 4. [...]
Using Facebook Authentication For Login in Laravel 5
Laravel has simplified authentication processes either the traditional way or via social media like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn or Github by creating a Laravel Socialite Package. Let’s see how we can utilize this package for Facebook Authentication: 1. Do a clean install of Laravel 5 2. Install Socialite [crayon-59bb64c4e7cbc562736767/] [...]
ALL SHADES OF LARACON 2015
Laravel has really grown over the past 3 years to be a very popular framework and the community around it is blazingly amazing. Laravel is also now making PHP very respected in the community and I see it becoming profound, established, well rooted and significantly the de facto framework for rapid web application development like Rails in [...]
INSTALLING LARAVEL HOMESTEAD ON WINDOWS
As stated in its documentation, Laravel strives to make the entire PHP development experience delightful, including your local development environment. Vagrant provides a simple, elegant way to manage and provision Virtual Machines – Vagrant creates and configures a lightweight, reproducible and portable development environment. Now, [...]
How To Create Custom Helper Functions in Laravel 5
Laravel 5 comes with many inbuilt helper functions right out of the box. The challenge we have as developers is that we are never satisfied with the status quo , We often crave for more. It’s a very good thing to be an Oliver twist. Several situations may arise to make you want to have your own helper functions, one of which is having [...]
Connect Your Sequel Pro with Laravel Homestead
Laravel Homestead is a vagrant box created by Taylor Otwell to mimic production environment locally. It’s a very awesome tool for developing Laravel applications. Most PHP developers are used to just using PHPMyAdmin to connect to their MySQLÂ databases meanwhile Sequel Pro is also a very good tool for connecting to your MySQL database. [...]
Getting Started With Testing in Laravel
A very important part of developing large, quality web applications is having automated tests that ensure every part of your application works as expected, no wicked surprises!. There are several types of testing but they are mainly classified into Acceptance, Functional and Unit testing. Acceptance Testing This kind of testing allows us to [...]
Lumen : The Powerful Micro-framework by Laravel
Before now, we have seen micro-frameworks in Php such as Silex, Slim and Flight dominate the scene. They are very good micro-frameworks. I have seen Silex and Flight in use and personally used Slim. Laravel, as we all know is the hottest web application framework in the Php World currently because of the wonderful features it provides out [...]
CREATING YOUR FIRST LARAVEL 5 PACKAGE
Hello, Today we’ll be getting started with creating packages in laravel 5. Are you excited? We created a micro service in our last post and it was a simple but lovely and fun micro-service. Let’s assume someone needs that exact same functionality in his Laravel app, the simplest way of making that functionality available to that [...]