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I'm recording the complete Laravel documentation as video screencasts, and you can join the process of building this platform. →

Today I want to share the birth of a new project with the Laravel community: Artisan School. The primary goal is to provide high-quality Laravel screencasts where I mix the Laravel documentation with real-life examples. Besides the video content, I want to create a place to discover code examples, links...

Announcing our next Laravel project: Launcher. A Docker-based deployment tool to launch apps and sites fully containerized. →

It's been a bit quiet when it comes to blogging, streaming, and releasing open-source packages. So instead, we've worked hard on an e-commerce platform written in Laravel and refined Form Components Pro and Inertia Tables along the way. Both packages are heavily used on the platform, and I'm really pleased...

A package for Laravel Dusk to wait for Inertia.js events →

Today marks the release of another Laravel + Inertia.js package, this time a small one compared to last week's Tables package. This new package provides helper methods for Laravel Dusk that you can use to wait for specific Inertia.js events to fire. Dusk is a first-party Laravel package that lets...

Introducing Inertia.js Tables: a DataTables-like package for Laravel Query Builder →

I'm thrilled to announce the release of a new package. It's a DataTables-like package for Inertia, Laravel, and Vue that comes with Tailwind-styled components and great features! You can search through your data, both globally and per attribute. There's support for pagination, sorting, column toggling, and you can predefine filters....

Proof of Concept: Load any route into a modal with Inertia.js using Laravel and Vue.js →

Last month we started our second big project with Inertia.js. The development of the first one is well underway, and with the recent announcement of Server-Side Rendering support, I genuinely think Inertia is the future of web development. It's incredibly intuitive as it gives you the best of both worlds,...

Encrypted HLS with Laravel FFMpeg: Protect your videos with AES-128 Encryption →

The Laravel FFmpeg package has supported HLS for over four years. It's a fantastic protocol to provide on-demand, adaptive streaming. Initially developed by Apple in the early days of iOS, it is now the most popular streaming format, and it works on Android and virtually every other browser as well....

Apply the opposite of your Eloquent scope to the Query Builder with a Laravel package →

Last week I blogged about a new package that I wrote. It builds upon the magic of Laravel Eloquent, and it quickly gained attention. As I worked on a minor release with some enhancements and shortcuts, I got an idea for a new feature. It's closely related to last week's...

Stop duplicating your Eloquent query scopes and constraints. Re-use them as select statements with a new Laravel package. →

In the Laravel framework, you've undoubtedly come across the Eloquent ORM. It makes working with your database a breeze as its query builder is both simple and incredibly powerful. It also has this concept of scopes, which you can apply globally to a model, or locally throughout your app. An...

Laravel FFMpeg now supports watermarks out-of-the-box →

Today a new version of Laravel FFMpeg has been released: version 7.3. It now has support for watermark built-in! You can add watermarks from your local or remote storage or even from the web. Positioning is easy. You can position it in a CSS-way, or you can use the built-in...

Convert and store Base64 encoded files in Laravel, use Validation rules, and access the decoded files from the Request instance →

Laravel makes it easy to handle file uploads from a request that's multipart/form-data encoded. You can access uploaded files through a Request instance, and it has helper methods to store files easily. It also has a bunch of rules to validate incoming files. For example, you can verify that the...

Laravel Form Components to rapidly build forms with Tailwind CSS and Bootstrap 4 →

I've always been a big fan of the Bootstrap framework, from the first version on. It's a great way to rapidly build interfaces and prototypes. These days we've mostly moved away from it towards Tailwind CSS, but it's still a great framework. Adam Wathan, the creator of the Tailwind framework,...

Learn what's new in Laravel 8.0 →

The next version of the Laravel framework, version 8.0, is planned for September 8th. It's packed with new features and improvements! As we're getting close to the release, it becomes clearer which PRs got merged. Some of the new stuff will be unveiled later on, probably at Laracon in late...

Search through multiple Eloquent models with our latest Laravel package →

There are many ways to add search functionality to your Laravel project. You can use the Query Builder, use the official Scout package to integrate with Algolia or use a third-party package like Spatie's laravel-searchable. Today we're introducing a new package to perform cross model, in-database searching. Here's a quick...

We're releasing the next major version of Laravel FFMpeg: a full rewrite with new features and many improvements →

In the Laravel 5.1 days, we got involved in completing the development of a video platform. It already had a lot of custom FFMpeg code, but there was no abstraction or testing, and it wasn't developer-friendly. We learned a lot, however. There was a great PHP-FFMpeg package out there, and...

Tracking events with Google Analytics and a new Laravel package →

Yesterday I posted a tweet about a Google Analytics implementation I was working on. It was based on a Event/Listener solution using Laravel. The tweet quickly gained traction and one day later it was liked more than 170 times and I was encouraged to build a package out of it!...

New features and changes in the upcoming Laravel 7.0 release →

We are just a few weeks away from the Laravel 7 release, so I've put together a list of some important new features and changes. Of course this is not everything but it is a brief overview of some of the new stuff. * Add "subquery value" where statement support...

An add-on to Laravel's built-in email verification. Only update a user's email address if the new one is verified as well. →

The Laravel framework has a built-in Email Verification feature that allows a user to verify its email address. It also comes with a Middleware that protects routes against unverified users. Resetting Passwords require a database table to store the reset tokens, but for Email Verification an approach without a database...

A new Laravel package to handle payments and subscriptions with Paddle →

Yesterday we've released a new package to use the Paddle.com API and webhooks in a Laravel app. Paddle is not just a payment provider like Stripe, they actually take care of handling taxes around the world which is a big deal when running a SaaS. Besides the regular VAT you...

Introducting the Tappable trait to use 'tap' with any class →

As you might know, the Laravel framework comes with a handy tap method which allows you to call the given closure with the given value and then return the value. Sounds confusing? It probably is until you've seen it! Let's take a look at this example: // without tap: function ...

Introducing a new Laravel package: API Health →

Today we are releasing a new Laravel package! It's a toolbox for monitoring first and third-party services and APIs, it keeps you notified about services going down (and up!). Out of the box it supports checking HTTP endpoints and verifying SSL certificates and the package allows you to generate your...

Mixing the Laravel 5.4+ HTTP testing layer with BrowserKit testing →

Laravel 5.4 (January, 2017) came with the introduction of Laravel Dusk, a first-party package with support for browser automation and a corresponding testing API. The HTTP testing layer got rewritten and became much more focussed on APIs from Laravel 5.4 onwards. Some of the HTTP testing tools were removed and...

How to use FFmpeg in your Laravel projects →

After some issues that got opened on GitHub I decided to write a blogpost on the Laravel FFmpeg package we created. We use this package ourselves in three different production environments. The example below is not taken from one of these projects but the goal is to give you a...

Read the full changelog of the upcoming Laravel 5.5 LTS release →

The next version of Laravel, which is a LTS release, will be released during and shortly after Laracon EU 2017. Laravel News has published some great articles of changes and new features in the framework. These are some of my personal favourites: * Auto-registering of new console commands * Carbon...

Convert accented characters with a Laravel helper function →

Besides the famous Collection class that Laravel provides it also has a Str class that has lots of great functions to work with strings. Some of these functions are available through helper functions and others you have to find in the API documentation. Last week we were working with a...

Setup MailHog with Laravel Valet →

As you might know, Laravel Valet makes it super easy to do development on your Mac. For Laravel there are some great packages to handle mail testing such as MailThief and Laravel Mail Preview Driver. You could also use a online service like Mailtrap to do mail testing. Another option...

Working with the Validator instance in Form Requests →

One undocumented gem I found today in the Laravel Framework is the withValidator method on a FormRequest class. If this method exists on your request class, this method gets called with the Validator instance as first argument. It allows you to interact with the validator instance before the actual validation...

What to expect from Laravel in 2017 →

The release of version 5.4 of the Laravel Framework is expected to be released in the next few weeks. Some exiting new features, enhancements and changes are coming! Here's a short overview of what to expect. New features * Laravel Dusk, which provides an expressive, easy-to-use browser automation and testing...

A brief overview of the Laravel Ecosystem →

Besides the framework itself, the Laravel brand has much more to offer. There are development environments, optional packages and services that help you get your projects online. Along with some rebranding that was announced, I'd like to give an overview of the Laravel ecosystem. Laravel Framework and components Of course...

Composer 1.3.0 is now released →

Jordi Boggiano, co-founder of Packagist and lead developer of Composer, announced the release of version 1.3.0 of Composer. It has some great new features and added a workaround for the performance impact that is caused by running PHP with Xdebug enabled. Composer can update itself by running the self-update command...

Format monetary values by using a Money library and Laravel Blade directives →

For a project which has to deal with prices, we decided to use the PHP Money library. It is an implementation of _Fowler's Money pattern_ and has great features and no dependencies. Most important, you shouldn't represent (and store) monetary values by a float. It takes away the problem of...

Toggle Xdebug on macOS from the terminal →

When you have the Xdebug extension for PHP installed and enabled, most of your PHP code will run notably slower. A little helper tool called '_Xdebug Toggler for OSX_' provides an easy way to quickly enable or disable Xdebug from the terminal: You can find the source code on GitHub...

Using Laravel Eloquent, you can add 'where clauses' on a relationship count condition →

Eloquent provides an easy way to add a relationship count condition to a query. Say you have a User model and a Role model which are related to each other using a many-to-many relationship. Using Eloquent it is very easy to get all Users that have one or more Roles...

macOS Sierra doesn't automatically mount a network drive, keeps asking for credentials →

At the office we're using an Ubuntu server for filesharing amongst other things. After upgrading to macOS Sierra 10.12, the Finder app keeps asking for credentials when you try to connect to a network share: With the latest 10.12.2 update, Apple fixed this with a preference you can set. According...

Hyper: a cross-platform terminal built on JS/HTML/CSS →

Recently a team of nearly 100 developers released version 1.0 of Hyper, an open-source terminal based on web technologies that runs on Linux, macOS and Windows. The development team focused on speed and extensibility. It can easily be styled with themes and extensions are universal Node.js modules which can interact...

macOS authentication agent asking for a passphrase, does it forget your public/private key? →

Every once in a while when I try to access a git repository, I need to enter a passphrase for my public/private key. Without having modified once of the keys, somehow the macOS authentication agent seems to forget the keys. $ git pull Enter passphrase for key '/Users/pascalbaljet/.ssh/id_rsa':  Of course...

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