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.

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.

November 18, 2024 — Usually, when working with things that require configuration, such as databases, caches, and mailers, you have to define them in their respective configuration files beforehand.

November 11, 2024 — Modern web development involves modern problems that require modern solutions. One such problem is that we often need to run multiple commands to get our development environment up and running.

October 14, 2024 — It’s always a good idea to follow best practices when it comes to software development. One of the best practices is to restrict the running of destructive commands on your servers, intentionally or unintentionally.

October 6, 2024 — Sometimes, it would be interesting to see what you can build using your favorite framework. This is especially useful when you’re in the phase of selecting a framework for your next project.

September 15, 2024 — Laravel has recently been shipped with a new helper called defer() which can be used to defer the execution of a callback until after a successful response has been sent.

September 14, 2024 — If you’re a long-time Laravel user, you might know about the feature that allows you to create temporary and signed URLs for files. This is a great feature that will enable you to share files with other users for a specified time.

September 8, 2024 — When you’re working with service classes in Laravel that you would inject into your controllers or anywhere else, you might need to pass some configuration values to them.

September 3, 2024 — Sometimes what happens is that for some reason, you might need to back up your database tables.

August 6, 2024 — Being aware of the queries that are being executed in your application is one of the most important things to do if you want your application to be performant and scalable at all times.

July 20, 2024 — A fingerprint, in general, refers to a unique pattern or characteristic that can be used to identify an individual or an object. This concept is widely used in various fields.

July 15, 2024 — When it comes to database performance, it would be primarily judged by the fact that how well the database can handle read and write operations.

July 11, 2024 — Generics in programming are a feature that allows you to define functions, classes, and data structures with placeholder types. This enables you to write more flexible and reusable code.

July 6, 2024 — Markdown has become a widely adopted standard for formatting text on the web due to its simplicity and readability. It allows users to write using an easy-to-read, easy-to-write plain text format, which is then converted to structurally valid HTML.

July 1, 2024 — When you’re working with a certain technology stack, you often find yourself looking for developers who are using the same tools and frameworks. The like-minded developers can help you find the best solutions and improve your skills.

June 27, 2024 — A lot of time when working with UIs, we need a big amount of data to check if the UI is working as expected in a real-world scenario.

June 23, 2024 — If you’ve ever worked with SaaS models, you’d be familiar with the concept of usage limits. It’s the most important metric for any SaaS product.

June 19, 2024 — There would be this rare scenario where you would want to fetch the before and after values from a Laravel Collection. For instance, you’re using a collection to display a resource from it and want to go back and forth from that value in that collection.

June 14, 2024 — Packages are a great way to extend the functionality of your Laravel application. They can be used to add new features, improve existing functionality, or enhance the performance of your application.

June 10, 2024 — There comes a time when you want to log in or authenticate a user in your application manually. For instance, you have a functionality where admins can mimic a user to perform certain actions. Or you may just want to impersonate a user for testing purposes.

June 5, 2024 — When it comes to building a SaaS product, Laravel essentially covers many things for you out of the box—things such as authentication, user management, notifications, queues, etc. You can further use first-party or third-party packages to add more features to your application.

May 30, 2024 — The attention to detail in everything that Laravel’s core team does is truly inspiring. Be it the clean code, the well-thought-out architecture, the thoughtful design decisions, or even the symmetry in the 3-line code comments, everything seems to be in the state of zen.

May 29, 2024 — When it comes to sending emails, Laravel makes it a breeze of a task. Be it SMTP, Sendmail, Mailgun, or any other service, Laravel has got it all. You set the default mailer, the required API key/token in the .env file, and you are good to go.

May 17, 2024 — Reusing database queries is a common practice to maintain clean, DRY (Don’t Repeat Yourself) code and ensure consistency across your application.

May 8, 2024 — If you are using Laravel’s HTTP client to call a third-party API, you might want to use the response as a collection to manipulate the data.

April 1, 2024 — When working with Laravel, you might need to manipulate data in various ways. For instance, when your data is a multi-dimensional array, you might need to filter, sort, or map the data to get the desired result.

March 7, 2024 — When working with Laravel, you might need to compare a value against multiple columns in the database. For instance, you might want to check if a value exists in one of the columns.

February 15, 2024 — PHP 8’s Attributes are a great way to add metadata to your code. They are a form of structured, syntactic metadata that can be added to classes, methods, functions, and properties.

February 14, 2024 — Do you remember the only method in Laravel Collections that allows you to retrieve a subset of the items from the collection?

January 25, 2024 — It’s sometimes convenient if you can quickly glance over the database your Laravel application is using and its tables. This is especially useful when you’re working on a legacy project and you’re not sure about the database structure.

January 16, 2024 — APA-style titles are a specific type of title case that is used in academic papers, research reports, and journal articles. It’s a style that’s used by the American Psychological Association (APA) and is a variation of the title case.

December 14, 2023 — Debugging is an essential part of the development process. And when it comes to debugging in Laravel, the first thing that comes to mind is the dd() and dump() functions. These functions are used to dump the contents of a variable and stop the execution of the script.

December 12, 2023 — There are times when you don’t want to use a full-fledged database like MySQL or PostgreSQL for your application. For instance, if you’re building a small application that relies heavily on reading small subset of data, you might not want to setup a database table for something like that.

December 6, 2023 — Maintenance mode is a feature in Laravel that allows you to put your application down for maintenance. It’s a great way to inform your users that the application is down for maintenance and will be back up soon.

December 2, 2023 — After a lot of hype in Laravel AU 2023 about this secret project, Laravel Pulse is finally out in the wild. It’s a real-time application performance monitoring tool for Laravel applications.

November 30, 2023 — If you’re working with Laravel (or any PHP application for that matter), you might have stumbled upon a situation where you need to process a large JSON input. For instance, you might want to use a JSON file to seed your database.

November 22, 2023 — PHP has this NumberFormatter class which is a part of the intl extension. This class is used to format numbers based on the locale. I covered this in one of my previous articles.

November 20, 2023 — You know Laravel has this neat Blade directive called @error which you can use to display the validation error message for a given field. For instance, if you have a name field in your form and you want to display the validation error message for it, you can do it like so.

November 1, 2023 — Laravel’s HTTP client is a wrapper around PHP’s Guzzle HTTP Client library. It provides a fluent interface to communicate with HTTP endpoints. It can be used to make HTTP requests to external APIs or to communicate with your own application.

October 9, 2023 — As your application grows in popularity, it becomes a target for various attacks. And even if not so popular, there are bots that are constantly looking for vulnerabilities in your application.

October 3, 2023 — Laravel has this method called substr() (both in Illuminate\Support\Str classes and str() global helper) which is used to form substrings from a given string.

September 21, 2023 — A few days ago I discussed many ways to tail logs in Laravel. And it hasn’t been long since I wrote that article, a new package called Pail has popped up on my radar which is also a Laravel package for tailing logs.

September 20, 2023 — If you’re a journalist or a writer, you might be familiar with the AP Stylebook commonly known as “AP-style”. It’s a writing style guide for journalists and it’s widely used in the United States.

September 14, 2023 — Environment variables are tricky little things that we use in our Laravel applications to store sensitive information such as API keys, database credentials, and so on. And there are two ways to access them in your Laravel application.

September 14, 2023 — Laravel has all kinds of Artisan commands to let you generate boilerplate code for your application. For instance, you can generate a controller, model, migration, and so on using the Artisan command. But, there was no command to generate views in Laravel until now.

September 12, 2023 — Jeffery Way recently tweeted about how he wants a php artisan tail command to see the real-time application logs in Laravel. And the replies to this tweet were quite interesting. People have shared their ways of tailing the Laravel log. So, I thought to compile them all in one place.

August 26, 2023 — You know Laravel always had the Illuminate\Support\Benchmark helper function which you can use to benchmark a callback and print it. For instance, if you want to benchmark a callback function, here’s how you can do it.

August 13, 2023 — Laravel’s Eloquent is a pretty powerful ORM. It allows you to seamlessly interact with your database tables using a simple and expressive syntax. But sometimes, it can be a little too forgiving about the mistakes you make while interacting with the database.

August 5, 2023 — Artisan commands in Laravel are truly a blessing. I mean you could create just about any files be it controllers, models, middleware, or provider by knocking a simple command from the CLI.

August 3, 2023 — Sometimes, you may want to ensure that a collection in Laravel contains only a specific type of item. For instance, you may want to ensure that a collection contains only a string type of item. Or, you may want to ensure that a collection contains items of a specific class.

July 27, 2023 — If you’ve ever worked with Next.js, you might have come across its page routing system. It’s pretty straightforward. You just create a file with the name of the route you want to create and that’s it.

July 25, 2023 — Large-scale projects would often require to import data from large CSV files at some point. And if not handled properly, this can very well lead to memory issues.

July 19, 2023 — Laravel Pint is a handy little package that helps you fix PHP code style in a Laravel project. On top of fixing code style, you can also set some rules and simplify repetitive tasks using this package.

July 3, 2023 — Sometimes when working with third-party APIs, there might be a need to add common headers to all the outgoing requests. For instance, you might want to add an Authorization header to all the outgoing requests to authenticate the requests.

July 2, 2023 — Perhaps the most anticipated feature that all Laravel developers were waiting for is finally going to be available in the framework. Yes, I’m talking about the ability to print raw SQL queries with bindings in Laravel 10.x.

May 26, 2023 — Laravel provides a timezone validation rule out of the box which you can use to validate if a given value is a valid timezone or not.

May 15, 2023 — If you’ve been using PHP for a while, you might have used its sleep function at some point to pause the execution of the script for a given number of seconds.

April 24, 2023 — Running system processes in Laravel is a common thing that we all need at some point. For instance, you might want to run a composer install command or an npm install command.

April 17, 2023 — There comes a time when you want to make some changes to an existing table. For instance, you want to change the data type of a column. So, in this case, you can modify the migration file of the table and then run the migration again using the artisan migrate:refresh command like so.

April 6, 2023 — When it comes to using a clean and consistent coding style across your Laravel project, the best way to do this is by using the Laravel Pint package. It’s a package that allows you to use the standard PSR coding style in your Laravel project.

March 31, 2023 — A HasMany relationship in Laravel helps you to define a one-to-many relationship between two models. So, if you have a User model and a Post model, you can define a HasMany relationship between them like so.

March 26, 2023 — Macros in Laravel are gifts that keep on giving. They let you extend the functionality of Laravel in a way that you can use them anywhere in your application.

March 22, 2023 — We now have a nice addition to the File facade in Laravel 10.x that lets you read JSON files easily. Essentially, it’s a wrapper around the json_decode() function. So, you can use it to read JSON files like so.

March 9, 2023 — The Pipeline facade is one little helper in Laravel that has been around for quite some time now but it’s only recently that it has got its place in the Laravel documentation.

March 6, 2023 — There comes a time when you want to make HTTP requests but the URL using which you want to make the request is dynamic. For example, you want to make a request to the GitHub API to get the details of a user but the username is dynamic. Or the version of the API is dynamic.

February 19, 2023 — Oftentimes, you may need to generate a secure password for your users. And in such cases, you may use the Str::random() method to generate a random string. But, the problem with this method is that it generates a random string that may not be secure enough.

February 16, 2023 — I was recently upgrading one of my Laravel apps to its newest version, i.e. Laravel 10. And while doing so, I faced a hurdle that I thought I should share with you.

January 22, 2023 — Laravel comes with handy little utilities when you want to increment or decrement the value of a column in a database table.

January 11, 2023 — Laravel gives you a lot of flexibility when it comes to working with Eloquent models. You can easily customize the way you want to work with your models.

January 5, 2023 — Macros in Laravel are a great way to extend the framework’s functionality. And if you are a Laravel developer, you must have used them at some point.

December 27, 2022 — Anonymous components are a great way to create reusable components in Laravel. Essentially, you can create an anonymous component without creating an associated class. For example, you can do something like this.

December 7, 2022 — The way routes work in Laravel is that you define a route and then you define a controller action to handle the request.

November 16, 2022 — A minor version of Laravel 9.x has just been released and with this release, a new Lottery class has been introduced.

November 12, 2022 — Validating things plays a crucial role in any web application. In Laravel, you can validate the incoming request data using the validate() method. This method accepts an array of validation rules as its first argument. These rules are used to validate the incoming request data.

November 10, 2022 — Blade views are the most common way to render HTML in Laravel. But, what if you want to render a specific fragment of a blade view? For instance, you want to render a specific section of a blade view. Or, you want to render a specific component of a blade view.

October 29, 2022 — In Laravel, it’s possible to resolve middleware from controllers. For example, you can resolve a middleware from the controller’s constructor like so.

October 24, 2022 — The latest version of Laravel 9.x has just been released and it comes with a lot of new features and improvements. In this article, I’ll talk about one of the new features in Laravel 9.x which is the new alternative mailable syntax.

September 30, 2022 — The use of environment files in Laravel (or any other similar framework) is pretty common. You can use the .env file to store the environment variables. This is a great way to store sensitive information like API keys, database credentials, etc. in a secure way.

September 16, 2022 — In the recent Laravel 9.x release, the framework introduced a new discardChanges() method on the Model class. This method allows you to discard the changes made to the model instance. So, let’s see how we can use this method.

August 25, 2022 — Laravel is an open-source PHP framework that forms web applications based on the model-view-controller paradigm. Hosting prerequisites include SSH to the server to deploy code from your GitHub store.

August 2, 2022 — A new Laravel release just dropped and with that, a brand new feature is ready to embrace us.

July 20, 2022 — Recently, a minor release for Laravel 9.x has introduced many new features that mostly include the revamp/fresh new look of Artisan commands. This includes commands to handle migrations to clearing caches to handling queues.

July 19, 2022 — Validating incoming HTTP requests is an integral part of any robust web application and if you work with Laravel, it makes it a breeze to work with validation.

July 5, 2022 — How many times does this happens to you that when you’re building UIs, you add placeholders (“Lorem Ipsum”, “John Doe”, etc..) to the places where it needs data from database or external APIs?

June 26, 2022 — Working with strings can prove to be tricky in some scenarios. For instance, when building a cart for an eCommerce website, you may need to show the string “item” in singular/plural form based on how many items are there in the cart.

June 24, 2022 — When working with databases with web applications, you never know when some query, which used to work fine, starts slowing down in some scenarios.

June 16, 2022 — I’m pretty sure if you’re older enough to be working in the software development industry, the one format that you would be working with in a recurring manner is JSON.

May 7, 2022 — A while back, I have written an article on how to convert arrays to human-readable lists in JavaScript. It’s a built-in feature using the Intl.ListFormat object that lets you do that.

May 2, 2022 — A minor release for Laravel 9.x dropped a few days ago and among lots of new features and improvements, this release has introduced a new method called findOr in the Eloquent Builder and Relations.

April 23, 2022 — When you’re working on a Laravel application, chances are you might be working with a lot of emails. For instance, every time, a new user is created, a welcome email and a confirmation email will be sent to the user.

April 22, 2022 — When working with Laravel routes, if it’s not able to find the matching route, a typical 404 HTTP response will be generated and returned back.

April 12, 2022 — Oftentimes, we need to trim the user-entered input to remove the additional white spaces around the string.

March 31, 2022 — If you’ve ever been in a situation where you need to wrap your string with some characters, let’s say ", you most probably would do something like so.

March 23, 2022 — There are mainly three kinds of caches in Laravel that you need to clear all the related junk files and optimize the performance of the application.

March 4, 2022 — Sometimes, the things you would think are quite obvious and should exist without a doubt don’t exist at all.

February 12, 2022 — Before Laravel 9, when you wanted to interact with strings you would either use the Illuminate\Support\Str class like so.

February 3, 2022 — The one feature of Laravel I truly admire is the Collections. Essentially, collections provide a fluent, convenient wrapper for working with arrays of data.

February 1, 2022 — Sometimes, you might stumble upon a situation where you have some keywords and you want to replace those with certain keywords in the string.

January 30, 2022 — Up until now, when you’re working with Laravel’s paginator and if you wanted to check whether the user is on the first page of the pagination in a Blade file, you would be using the onFirstPage() method like so.

January 19, 2022 — There are many ways using which you can group your routes in Laravel right now. For instance, as by middlewares, subdomains, prefixes to name a few.

January 16, 2022 — In Laravel, when you want to update the model that already exists in the database, you would first retrieve that model, set any attributes you wish to update, and then call the model’s save method like so.

December 27, 2021 — When you want to format certain Eloquent models before setting/retrieving in Laravel, you would certainly reach for the accessors and mutators.

December 21, 2021 — Let’s imagine a scenario where you have a MySQL table called users and there’s a column called secret which holds a secret token for the associated users.

December 20, 2021 — Working with Laravel’s HTTP client, there might be the scenario where the outgoing HTTP requests that you’re making might return responses with different status codes.

December 4, 2021 — Some may argue that Laravel is a framework that is bloated with methods and stuff to do everything under the sun. But in my opinion, that’s one of those things that make Laravel, “Laravel” because the more options you have out of the box, the better your life gets!

November 20, 2021 — While it’s not recommended to allow all of your model’s attributes mass assignable since in that case you need to make sure to hand-craft the arrays passed to Eloquent’s fill, create, and update methods.

November 14, 2021 — I recently saw a tweet by Philo Hermans which states the slick use of a recently added Prunable trait in Laravel 8.x

November 6, 2021 — There comes a time when you would be in need of obfuscating a certain part of the string. For instance, to obfuscate the credit card’s digits except the last four or to mask specific parts of the phone number or email.

October 19, 2021 — Strings are tricky things to work with when it comes to programming. But thankfully, Laravel provides a lot of helper methods that can fulfill almost all the use-cases you might have when you’re working with strings.

October 13, 2021 — When you’re using Laravel’s Http client to make Http requests and something went wrong from the server-side, the server would return one of the error reponses such as 500 Internal Server Error, 502 Gateway Timeout, and so on.

September 24, 2021 — When you have a request in hand and if the URL is having a query string with different parameters, the easiest way to get the entire URL with the query string is using the fullUrl() method like so.

September 5, 2021 — Checking the existence of relationships and fetching model records is quite easy in Laravel.

August 21, 2021 — Laravel offers mainly two ways to validate the request data inside of the controller methods. Either you can directly call the validate method on the Illuminate\Http\Request object and set the validation rules or you can create a form request and type-hint the controller method with this form request class.

August 16, 2021 — Sometimes, you might end up in a situation where you would want to add certain validation rules for fields.

July 31, 2021 — Sometimes, the biggest sign that shows that a framework is maturing is when it has multiple ways of doing the same thing. Laravel, being one of these frameworks, is no exception.

July 24, 2021 — One of the many benefits of using Laravel as a framework is the immense customizability it comes with. So, you can use this to overcome some of the limitations.

July 20, 2021 — Here’s a little tip I get to know about Eloquent through this tweet by ninjaparade.

June 30, 2021 — Logging is an integral part of developing applications. And if you’re working with Laravel, logging things is a breeze.

June 29, 2021 — In Laravel, when your queued jobs fail after a job has exceeded the number of attempts, it will be inserted into the failed_jobs database table (if you have set it up).

June 23, 2021 — Typically, when you send notifications from your Laravel app, the notifications would be attached to the users of your application in most of the scenarios.

June 7, 2021 — If you have been working with Laravel lately, you might have used this feature called “conditional clauses” using which you will be able to run a certain callback when a condition becomes true.

May 31, 2021 — Wouldn’t it be useful if you could define a certain action that should be performed every time your Blade templates encounter objects of a specific class?

May 25, 2021 — Laravel has this cool feature using which you can put your website in maintenance mode. To do so, all you will need to do is run the following command.

May 5, 2021 — When you want to extend some of the classes’ functionality in Laravel, Macros are your best bet. Your imagination is the only limit to what you can do with macros.

April 26, 2021 — In my previous article, I talked about the new custom password rule object which brings in the ability to easily add various validation rules to the password field.

April 25, 2021 — Passwords are sensitive data and they should be handled with utmost care. The one way to ensure that the user’s password remains safe is to make them enter the strong password in the first place.

April 15, 2021 — Back in March 2020, when Laravel 7 got released, a brand new HTTP client was introduced which was essentially a wrapper of Guzzle HTTP client. This made the developer experience a lot smoother and easier.

April 4, 2021 — If you want to paginate database records in Laravel, you can use the paginate method on the query builder or an Eloquent query.

March 30, 2021 — Sometimes, all you would need is to forcefully prevent some of the fields in the request. Essentially, to “prohibit” or ban the fields to be mandatorily empty or not present in the request at all.

March 22, 2021 — If you want to make your web application robust, you get to handle those quirky and unpredictable exceptions. And the way you do that in PHP is by using try-catch blocks in your code. The same applies in the case of Laravel as well.

March 15, 2021 — Oftentimes, it would be handy if you could seed the number of model rows based on the user input. i.e you don’t hardcode the number of rows a seeder would generate. The user will pass that number while running the seeder.

March 11, 2021 — Sometimes, you might run into a situation where you want to see what all database queries will run upon running your Laravel migrations, and that too without actually running the migrations.

February 27, 2021 — Sometimes, when working with HTTP responses, you might want to retrieve the entire response as a Laravel collection to make further manipulations.

February 23, 2021 — When working with Mail notifications in Laravel, you’ll often be in a situation where you would want to render something based on some condition.

February 21, 2021 — If you have worked with a Large scale Laravel application, there might be a great chance that you would have to use JSON columns to save some information in your tables.

February 7, 2021 — The fluent string operations were introduced back in the release of Laravel 7 which offered a more object-oriented, fluent string manipulation library built on top of Illuminate\Support\Str functions. To use this fluent API, you’d need to use the Illuminate\Support\Str::of method which creates a fluent Illuminate\Support\Stringable object.

January 24, 2021 — There are certain operations that can have a high probability of failure. For instance, sending a request to a third-party API. You’re not sure whether it will work every time flawlessly because it’s not in your control. If the API endpoint you’re hitting is not responding, you might end up with an exception straight away.

January 21, 2021 — With the latest release minor of Laravel, i.e. v8.23.0, a really interesting method has been introduced in Laravel’s query builder for situation where you want to get the only record for the matching criteria. But if there are more records for this criteria, there should be some sort of exception.

January 19, 2021 — While working on your codebase, be it developing features for your application or fixing bugs, we all tend to get a little bit demotivated sometimes in the middle of those sessions. Because after all, we are all humans and we all need some kind of inspiration every now and then.

January 18, 2021 — When you are using Laravel queues, you might bump into the situation where you want to prevent overlapping of jobs that handles sensitive information. This could be to provide data integrity of important information such as the user’s wallet balance.

January 11, 2021 — Here’s a little tip about the artisan command that generates the controller. So, if you’ve used the make:controller command with the --resource option, it will generate controllers with create, read, update, and delete (“CRUD”) actions in them.

December 30, 2020 — When working with polymorphic relationships in Laravel’s Eloquent, it’s important to specify the “type” of the related model. You can do this by using morphOne, morphMany, and morphToMany methods.

December 16, 2020 — Sometimes, it would be convenient if you get details regarding things right in your terminal. Take for instance, all your scheduled commands that you have defined in your application’s App\Console\Kernel class’ schedule method like so.

December 15, 2020 — There is no denying the popularity of PHP. It has been a constant force in the web development world since its release in 1995. And now, thanks to Laravel, it is still going as strong as ever!

December 14, 2020 — Up until now, if you would need to delay notifications, you could do it by chaining the delay method onto your notification instantiation like so.

December 9, 2020 — Imagine you just bought a new computer and the next thing you want to do is create a brand new Laravel application in your brand new machine.

December 3, 2020 — Sometimes, there might be a case where you would want some of the code that lies outside of the transaction to be executed only when the corresponding transaction commits successfully and if in any case, it’s a rollback, that code shouldn’t be executed.

November 25, 2020 — Laravel keeps getting better on each of its major releases. But sometimes, it’s the minor and patch releases that take the cake by introducing some lesser-noticed features.

November 22, 2020 — You might face a scenario where you’d want to restrict a user from submitting a form within a certain time limit. i.e to prevent spamming by users.

November 18, 2020 — The Laravel Telescope package is great for debugging your application when you’re working on your application in the local environment. It provides insight into the requests coming into your application, exceptions, log entries, database queries, queued jobs, mail, notifications, cache operations, scheduled tasks, variable dumps, and various other things in this beautiful interface.

November 16, 2020 — MySQL’s EXPLAIN statement is a handy tool if you want to take a quick glance over queries and to make out what’s wrong with them. Essentially, EXPLAIN is used to obtain a query execution plan (that is, an explanation of how MySQL would execute a query).

November 11, 2020 — When Laravel 8 released, It came with a lot of new features & improvements but along with it, the Laravel team has also introduced Jetstream for application scaffolding which comes with all the bells and whistles in-built such as login, registration, email verification, two-factor authentication, session management, API support via Laravel Sanctum, and optional team management.

November 9, 2020 — Alright! So, my first PR in laravel/framework has got merged and I’m on cloud 9 right now. I’m not kidding!

November 6, 2020 — Sometimes, there comes a scenario where you want to loop over a collection or array and include Blade views based on the iteration of that collection/array. You can use @foreach and @include for this purpose but there’s a handy way using which you can simplify this process.

November 2, 2020 — Sometimes, all you want to do is generate temporary URLs for files that you have stored on your AWS S3 bucket. For instance, you would want to use this to prevent hotlinking of images.

October 23, 2020 — If you’ve worked with Laravel, you might be aware of the fact that all the multi-result sets returned by Eloquent are instances of the Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Collection object. So, for instance, if you have a User model, you can get all the users like so.

October 20, 2020 — It would be useful sometimes when you’re not sure if you want to insert or update records and you’d let the system decide that. Laravel comes with one such feature that lets you do just that.

October 14, 2020 — Laravel Envoy is a great tool if you want to create deployment flow for your application or even something as small as writing a script to pull the latest code and deploy the application right away.

October 12, 2020 — You know if you want to pass data to the views, you can do it while defining routes or from controllers like so.

October 5, 2020 — In one of my articles, I’ve explained how you can extend class behavior using macros in Laravel.

October 3, 2020 — One of the standard ways to resolve dependencies in Laravel is by using service container. Essentially, if you want to inject something which can be swappable anytime, you can do this by “biding” that into the service container.

September 24, 2020 — Laravel, as a framework, has grown slowly but strongly since its inception and so is its ecosystem. The ecosystem here is all the packages/products that are built by the Laravel team which revolves around the original Laravel framework. This includes open-source packages and premium/paid products.

September 23, 2020 — One of the handiest features of Laravel is the ability to dispatch Closures to queues. This is because you don’t always need to create a job class for simple tasks such as sending emails.

September 18, 2020 — Laravel 8’s class-based model factories are great and I’ve written an entire article about what they are and how they are more feature-rich and useful than the traditional factories that we used to write prior to Laravel 8.

September 16, 2020 — One of the most prominent changes in Laravel 8 is the (kind of) new way of defining controller routes. Before Laravel 8, if you wanted to define a route, you could do it like so.

September 14, 2020 — In the previous versions of Laravel, up to 7.x, when you wanted to rate limit certain routes, you could do it by assigning the throttle middleware to the route or group of routes like so.

September 12, 2020 — The model factories in Laravel are a great way of seeding some fake data in the database for testing purposes which I’ve discussed in this article. While the previous implementation was great, Laravel 8 has given model factories a major overhaul and it makes them even better!

September 11, 2020 — Apart from adding support for customizable maintenance mode views, Laravel 8 has also simplified the process of accessing the Laravel application in the maintenance mode.

September 10, 2020 — When you put your Laravel application on maintenance mode using the php artisan down command, the default view for the same looks like following.

September 9, 2020 — With the release of Laravel 8, you can now render Blade components dynamically using a built-in component called dynamic-component.

September 3, 2020 — Recently, a prominent member of Laravel community, Dries Vints, has pre-released a pretty exciting open-source project called Blade UI Kit.

September 1, 2020 — In one of my articles, I’ve described how you can add different behavior to some of the classes in Laravel using macros. To give you a primer, Laravel ships with this trait called Illuminate\Support\Traits\Macroable using which you can add additional methods to the class in hand (which is using the Macroable trait) at run time.

August 26, 2020 — You know it’s always a good idea to have something at your disposal using which you can improve the performance of your applications. When it comes to web applications, one of the many things that power them is database queries and that’s why it’s no surprise that you may want to optimize those and make your application a little faster!

August 24, 2020 — You might be aware of the typical way of defining model relationships in Laravel Eloquent. i.e inside of the models itself.

August 20, 2020 — There comes a time when you want to fetch the number of records for a child relationship along with the main Eloquent query.

August 17, 2020 — One of the many ways using which you can insert records (or seed your database) is by using the seeder classes which extend a base class called Illuminate\Database\Seeder in Laravel.

August 10, 2020 — When writing MySQL queries, if there are more than two where conditions, you’d want to group certain constraints/conditions to avoid unexpected behavior. For instance, check the following query.

August 8, 2020 — As I described in this article on how you can create anonymous components in Laravel, we can create an <x-alert> component with the following content.

August 5, 2020 — Often you’d come across a scenario where you’d like to check the application environment and based on that you’d like to render things.

July 31, 2020 — Laravel’s Blade template engine is great and ever-evolving. There are some features in Blade, which if used appropriately, can make your codebase look more organized and recognizable.

July 20, 2020 — Sometimes, you want to load some stuff based on the fact that the certain service provider is loaded in the providers array of config/app.php or not.

June 18, 2020 — Sometimes, it’s useful to know if somethig has been changed in the model since it’s been loaded. For instance, you would want to check if the is_published attribute of the Post model is set or not before publishing the post further.

June 11, 2020 — It’s helpful sometimes when you have a file and it doesn’t have extension attached to it but you want to know the extension of the file regardless.

May 28, 2020 — The usual way of validating request attributes in Laravel is by making Illuminate\Support\Facades\Validator instance with your static rules that never change like so.

May 20, 2020 — Laravel comes with a multitude of ways to validate request parameters. For instance, you could use Illuminate\Http\Request’s validate method where you can specify all the fields that you would want to get validated inside controller’s action. You can do it like so.

May 7, 2020 — Lately, if you’ve been working on some functionality and you want to extract it as a Laravel package, you’d like to first test it locally. And if everything is well and good, you’d then publish it to the packagist.org.

April 29, 2020 — Facades, in Laravel, is basically a way of using Laravel’s classes without injecting them into the constructor of the class in which you want to use them.

April 27, 2020 — Laravel Blade comes with many in-built directives such as @section, @yield, @parent, @json and several others, all of which have a certain purpose attached to them.

April 26, 2020 — In this article, I’ve written about how to use event subscribers or observer pattern in Laravel.

April 24, 2020 — The Observer design pattern is one of the twenty-three well-known “Gang of Four” design patterns that describe how to solve recurring design problems to design flexible and reusable object-oriented software, that is, objects that are easier to implement, change, test, and reuse.

April 23, 2020 — Sending emails in Laravel is a breeze. All you have to do is, configure your default mail service in config/mail.php and it’s related configuration in config/services.php file.

April 14, 2020 — The new Blade components in Laravel 7 are great. They provide an easy way of defining blade components in a Vue-like tag aliases. One of the nice features of Blade components are slots.

April 7, 2020 — Blade component tags are a useful additions to the latest version of Laravel i.e. version 7. In Laravel 7, Blade components have been overhauled to allow tag based rendering, attribute management, component classes, inline view components, and more.

April 2, 2020 — Often times, there comes a sceanrio where you’d want to alter the column through which you’ve setup your query to be sorted from. So, for instance, you’ve the following query.

March 18, 2020 — If you want to validate request fields in Laravel, you could use Illuminate\Http\Request’s validate method where you can specify all the fields that you would want to get validated inside controller’s action. You can do it like so.

March 12, 2020 — Artisan commands in Laravel are truly a blessing. I mean you could create just about any files be it controllers, models, middleware, provider by knocking a simple command from the CLI. For instance, if you want to create a model named Post you could just fire the following command…

March 10, 2020 — Laravel 7 has been a major version that’s been released last week and it comes with the host of features and improvements to the Laravel framework. One of the improvements being the new fluent string operations API. The goal of these API is to provide more flexibility and readablity to the regular string operations in Laravel by chaining array of string manipulation methods.

March 5, 2020 — I’ve discussed about Route Model Bindings of Laravel in length in this article previously. If you’re not aware about the feature, I’d recommend you check that article first and come back here again.

February 26, 2020 — Working with Laravel Eloquent, we always had this ability to check null fields when builing queries on models. For instance, if you want to check if email_verified_at field is null or not, you’d check it like so.

February 16, 2020 — Sometimes, you might want to convert some of the request parameters to boolean. For instance, take a checkbox field. Unless and until, it hasn’t been checked it won’t be passed through to the request. In such a case, it would be beneficial to convert such inputs to boolean.

February 6, 2020 — Sometimes, all you need to do is to add a Blade view into an another view. For instance, when you want to add JavaScript and CSS files as a separate Blade files which will contain the related content respectively. So, maybe you’ve a JavaScript blade file called view-js.blade.php which wraps the JS code within <script> tag and a CSS blade file called view-css.blade.php which wraps the CSS code within <style> tag. And all you want to do is add these to an another blade file called view-show.blade.php.

January 30, 2020 — Laravel’s Blade is a great templating system that blends with Laravel’s ecosystem very well. Setting some data to the view is a breeze and rendering those data into the template is ever so easy. For instance, if you would like to share some data from a controller’s action to a view, you’d do like so.

January 29, 2020 — Sometimes, you might want to attach additional attributes to the original request that has made to the Laravel application. For instance, you want to put your own check in the middleware to see if the user is permitted to access the page or not, and pass that “check” by attaching it as an additional attribute to the request.

January 23, 2020 — When designing UI elements such as zebra strips in the tables, you’d need to identify if the loop iteration is even or odd and based on that you’d set the backgroud color of the row.

January 22, 2020 — There are basically two ways of using the auth middleware to authenticate the routes in Laravel.

January 20, 2020 — Laravel’s Blade::if() method already comes with the following directives in order to check various conditions in blade template files.

January 15, 2020 — Sometimes, it’s convenient when you could get to access class objects as arrays. For instance, the time when one of the class properties is of type array and you want to manipulate it just like you’d do with an array without exposing it during object creation. I’ve included a real world example of where this could be useful, at the end of the article. So, read on!

January 9, 2020 — There comes a scenario in your app where there are some fields in your form that are dependent on an another field’s state.

December 12, 2019 — The best thing about working with Laravel is finding an alternate way to do same old boring stuff every now and then. I came across something called as “Higher Order Messages” while working with Eloquent recently. The feature has been in Laravel since its v5.4.

December 1, 2019 — There exists four types of relationship associated between models/entities. And they are: One To One, One To Many, Many To One and Many To Many. We’re specifically going to talk about Many To Many relationship and most importantly attach, detach and sync helper methods that are provided in Laravel in this article.

November 6, 2019 — If you’re looking for a quick way to drop all the tables, their types and views and if you’re using Laravel 6.x, you can use this little artisan command called db:wipe in order to do the same.

November 2, 2019 — In this article, I’m going to discuss about the feature in Laravel using which you can extend the functionality of certain Laravel’s core classes without even touching the original codebase. Or in other words, adding methods to the class dynamically.

October 9, 2019 — If you’ve used some well creafted web application, such as GitHub for instance, you might’ve noticed that upon saving sensitive information such as settings or payment details, it asks for the password confirmation before performing the action. This adds the extra layer of security and certainly a nice-to-have feature.

September 11, 2019 — If you love the Laravel as a framework or more specifically its Eloquent ORM like I do then there’s a great chance that you’d like to use this great ORM in your non-Laravel PHP apps as well. And the good news is it’s rather easier than you might think. Laravel provides a standalone pacakge called Capsule which you can use in your own project. It’s a full database toolkit for PHP, providing an expressive query builder, ActiveRecord style ORM, and schema builder. It currently supports MySQL, Postgres, SQL Server, and SQLite.

September 4, 2019 — Laravel team has recently released v6.0 of the framework and with this they have added a bunch of exciting new features. Among which, I’m going to talk about Lazy Collections in this article. In Laravel, Illuminate\Support\Collection class provides a fluent, convenient wrapper for working with arrays of data. In face, all the Eloquent queries are always returned as Collection instances. LazyCollection essentially extends the features of the Collection class. Let’s talk about them in detail.

August 27, 2019 — In this tweet, Freek Van der Herten explains how to process chunk of records from a model instead of loading all of them at a time which can help using less memory. Learn more about it in the article.

August 26, 2019 — As backend developers, to make our web application full proof we need to make sure our application is running as efficiently as possible all the time. Otherwise, everyone using your database will suffer from slow performance. API limiting, which is also known as rate limiting, is an essential component of Internet security, as DoS attacks can tank a server with unlimited API requests.

August 3, 2019 — To understand, how dependency injection works in Laravel, let’s just get to know what dependency injection actually is, in software engineering.

July 22, 2019 — It’s widely known that PHP can’t serialize closures directly. If you try to serialize a closure in PHP, it will result in a fatal error. Take below for example.

July 12, 2019 — If you want to check if the eloquoent model has certain relationship or not and fetch the results accordingly while querying upon it, you can do this by two approaches in the Laravel Eloquent.

July 6, 2019 — When you’re building an Laravel application which uses APIs at some point, it’s no brainer to use Laravel’s resource classes as it provides the transformation layer that sits between your Eloquent models and the JSON responses that are actually returned to your application’s users.

June 16, 2019 — Laravel’s Eloquent ORM comes with this unique set of features called “Scopes” which can be used to re-use some of the query constraints onto all the queries of a certain model. This can be useful to minimize the code while writing the query and is an easy way to make sure every query for a given model receives certain constraints.

May 5, 2019 — Every robust web app has this feature where you’re provided with a setting through which you can choose to logout from all the devices you’ve been logged in from previously, except the current one. This is certainly a nice security feature that you can provide to your user without them even asking for it and if your app is built on top of Laravel 5.6, this comes out-of-the-box.

April 29, 2019 — There’s this neat feature in Laravel where you can validate model IDs that have been injected into the route by injecting model instances directly at route level.

April 15, 2019 — Laravel’s Eloquent is without a doubt a great ORM exists right now. It has some of the features which makes it ahead of its competitions. One such feature the ORM provides is called “Attribute casting”.

March 29, 2019 — A sometime ago I tried my hands on implementing some of the PHP’s native functions in native JavaScript. The result is quite interesting list of JavaScript functions you’ve never asked about.

March 28, 2019 — There comes a time when you want URLs which are public but still you want some kind of authentication onto the same. For instance, you’d want such kind of URLs to enable invite-only registrations for your applications, where you’d send a URL to the user which that specific person only can access and register. In such scenarios, signed URLs can come in handy which are the special kind of URLs that have a “signature” hash appended to the query string to verify that the URL has not been modified since it was created.

March 26, 2019 — There exist this neat feature in Laravel using which you can add attributes in the models that do not have a respective column in your database.

February 9, 2019 — While developing applications(not necessarily with Laravel), you come across the situation where you need to implement certain functionality. In such cases you shouldn’t want to reinvent the wheel if the functionality is been implemented by someone as a package, accepted well by the community and is ready to be consumed. It’s a no-brainer. I use to follow the same approach and today in this article, I’m going to list out some of my favorite Laravel packages which have made my experience with development in Laravel delicious.

January 9, 2019 — When working on a project, there comes a time when you need to automate certain tasks. In such cases, it is better to use a CLI tool which can be run from the command prompt because using a web APIs for certain tasks is cumbersome.

December 21, 2018 — There comes times when you wouldn’t want your end users staring at white screens or that intimidating loaders for a long time. For instance when user registers to your site, you must have configured your website to send a welcome email or a confirmation email upon registering. So, that operation should be snappy and for that purpose you’d actually want to reduce the amount of time your app takes while sending the email to the user. Laravel Queues comes to the recue for achieving such kind of time consuming tasks.

August 23, 2017 — Accessors and mutators allow you to format Eloquent attribute values when you retrieve or set them on model instances. I’ll explain how you can you use them into your app.

August 17, 2017 — Today, while working with one of my projects(which is built on top Laravel) I bumped into the situation where I needed to get associated model’s data for one of the models. So here, I had two approaches in Laravel to accomplish this which are basically called Eager Loading: