January 19, 2025 — Laravel’s Tinker package is a powerful REPL (Read-Eval-Print Loop) tool that allows you to interact with your Laravel application from the command line. It’s a great tool to test your application’s code without having to go through the hassle of creating a new controller or a route.

January 11, 2025 — In Laravel, you can use the intended method on the redirect response to redirect the user back to the intended URL after they’ve been authenticated. This is usually used when the user is not authenticated and they’re trying to access a protected route.

January 8, 2025 — Laravel 11.x already has a whereRelation method that lets you query relationships directly. However, there were a few query methods that can be made simpler when using relations.

December 31, 2024 — Artificial intelligence feels better when it’s a part of the product and not a separate tool and it blends seamlessly into your workflow. A good example I recently spotted is the new AI-powered writing suggestions in Chrome.

December 24, 2024 — PHP is one of the most popular programming languages in the world. It’s been around for a long time and has a huge community of developers. It’s used for everything from simple websites to complex web applications. If you’re learning PHP, you need a good development environment to practice.

December 20, 2024 — Cloudflare is a great service for hosting any site. Be it a static site or a dynamic one, Cloudflare has got you covered. Cloudflare Pages, in particular, is a great way to deploy your static sites. It’s fast, reliable, and most importantly, it’s free. This blog is even hosted on Cloudflare Pages.

December 13, 2024 — JavaScript is the most popular programming language in the world, as well as the programming language of the Web itself. What’s probably even more important for beginners, however, is that JavaScript is one of the easiest programming languages to learn and get into.

December 12, 2024 — A URI (Uniform Resource Identifier) is a string of characters that uniquely identifies a resource on the internet or a local network. It provides a way to locate or reference resources such as web pages, files, images, or services.

December 3, 2024 — One of the things that I do every year is to update my eBook called PHP 8 in a Nutshell. It’s a book that I’ve been writing for the past few years for every new release related to PHP 8 and its minor releases.

November 25, 2024 — Migrations in Laravel are a great way to manage your database schema. From the ability to easily create and drop tables, to the ability to add and remove columns, migrations are an essential part of any Laravel application.