Protone Media Blog

Blogposts about PHP, Laravel and other development topics.

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.

December 31, 2019
  • #Open source
  • #Laravel
  • #PHP
  • #Package

A new Laravel package to handle payments and subscriptions with Paddle

December 03, 2019
  • #Open source
  • #Laravel
  • #PHP
  • #Package
  • #Paddle

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

May 14, 2019
  • #Open source
  • #Laravel
  • #PHP

Introducing a new Laravel package: API Health

July 30, 2018
  • #Laravel
  • #PHP
  • #Package
  • #API Health
  • #Notifications

Mixing the Laravel 5.4+ HTTP testing layer with BrowserKit testing

January 31, 2018
  • #Laravel
  • #PHP
  • #testing
  • #Package

How to use FFmpeg in your Laravel projects

August 22, 2017
  • #Laravel
  • #PHP
  • #Packages
  • #FFmpeg

Read the full changelog of the upcoming Laravel 5.5 LTS release

August 20, 2017
  • #Laravel
  • #Laravel 5.5

Convert accented characters with a Laravel helper function

April 27, 2017
  • #Laravel
  • #PHP

Setup MailHog with Laravel Valet

February 07, 2017
  • #Laravel
  • #mail
  • #MailHog
  • #Laravel Valet

Working with the Validator instance in Form Requests

January 20, 2017
  • #Laravel
  • #validation
  • #validator

What to expect from Laravel in 2017

January 16, 2017
  • #Laravel
  • #Laravel 5.4
  • #Laravel 5.5
  • #Laravel Forge

A brief overview of the Laravel Ecosystem

December 29, 2016
  • #Laravel
  • #PHP
  • #Packages
  • #Laravel Ecosystem
  • #JavaScript

Composer 1.3.0 is now released

December 24, 2016
  • #PHP
  • #Composer
  • #Packages

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

December 22, 2016
  • #Laravel
  • #PHP
  • #Fowler's Money pattern
  • #Service Provider
  • #Blade

Toggle Xdebug on macOS from the terminal

December 14, 2016
  • #macOS
  • #PHP
  • #Composer
  • #Xdebug

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

December 14, 2016
  • #Laravel
  • #Eloquent
  • #Relationships

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

December 14, 2016
  • #Apple
  • #macOS
  • #macOS Sierra
  • #Network share

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

December 13, 2016
  • #Terminal
  • #Open source
  • #Cross-platform

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

December 10, 2016
  • #macOS
  • #git
  • #GitLab
  • #ssh
  • #UseKeychain