Tutorial: Ordering belongsToMany by Pivot →
Jason Gilmore has a new tutorial showing a way of ordering belongsToMany relationships by the pivot table. When declaring a belongsToMany relation in Laravel, you can optionally include the...
View ArticleLarvel™ A new enterprise framework
PHP is one of the most widely used web development languages, but it has long been considered the worst to work with. To help ease the pain of working in such a horrific language, frameworks are...
View ArticleZendCon – Call For Papers Is Now Open →
The annual Zend Conference has just opened up the call for papers for the 2015 event. This years conference will be held at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada. Zend is looking for a...
View ArticlePresident Obama Visits Indatus
Yesterday President Obama gave a speech in Louisville KY, from inside the Indatus headquarters. Indatus is a Laravel supporter and a current sponsor of Laracon 2015. The topic of the speech was...
View ArticleJosh – Laravel Admin Template (Sponsor) →
Josh admin template is a bootstrap based admin template built with Laravel. It includes over 100 components including drag/drop form builders, charts, sliders, data tables, image uploading/resizing,...
View ArticleHow to validate an array of form inputs →
Over on my personal blog I wrote a tutorial on using the new Laravel 5 Form Requests to validate an array of form inputs. It’s a common problem with a simple solution that Laravel makes very easy to...
View ArticleGetting started with Laravel and Ember →
Philip Brown has a new tutorial on getting started with Laravel and Ember. This is a continuation of his series on building an application named Cribbb and this tutorial covers the basics of getting...
View ArticleFull Stack Radio #14 – Taylor Otwell →
In this episode, Adam Wathan sits down with Taylor Otwell. They discuss the architecture for Envoyer, keeping code simple, and upcoming changes to Laravel 5.1. Give it a listen as it’s a great episode....
View ArticlePackage for Testing Stripe Webhooks →
TNT Studios has created a Stripe Webhook Tester: The PHP Stripe Webhook Tester package allows you to easily test (simulate) all of Stripe’s web hook events and it’s really easy in your test suite to...
View ArticleHuge List of 214 Free Services for Developers →
Free For Dev is a GitHub repo listing out free services for developers: Developers and Open Source authors now have a massive amount of services offering free tiers, but it can be hard to find them all...
View ArticleHow To Install PHPCI in Homestead →
In this tutorial, Mike Bronner shows us how to install PHPCI in Homestead. If you are not familiar PHPCI is an open source continuous integration application specifically designed for PHP. How To...
View ArticleLaravel: A Guided Tour
This video is a recording of a talk Taylor gave at php[world] 2014 in Washington DC. Session Abstract: This talk will explore the foundational architecture of the Laravel framework, with a guided tour...
View Article8 Questions with Shawn McCool
This week I’m happy to welcome Shawn McCool to the Artisan Files interviews series. If you are not familiar with Shawn he runs the Laracon EU conference, former host of the Laravel podcast, and was a...
View ArticleRun Gulp Tasks in Laravel Easily with Elixir →
Samuel Oloruntoba has a new tutorial over on Scotch.io showing you how to use Elixir. He steps you through how to use all the included ingredients and explains the config array you can pass in. Run...
View ArticleWhat are the asterisk, tilde, and caret used for in Composer? →
In this Composer tutorial learn about the differences between all these characters: Depending on your dependency manager you can define version constraints using wildcards (*), comparators like <=,...
View ArticleLifetime Certified Training in Adobe Software (Sponsor) →
Adobe puts out some of the most popular Web Design and Development tools around. Incredibly robust, it can take some serious practice and help to fully master some of them. So why not let some of the...
View ArticleUnobtrusive JavaScript in Laravel with jquery-ujs →
Barry vd. Heuvel has a new tutorial out on integrating jquery-ujs with Laravel. This seems like a great solution if you are building a traditional web app and need a dose of ajax mixed in. Unobtrusive...
View ArticleLaravel Activity Log Package →
Freek Van der Herten has created a new package that will allow you to easily setup an activity log for your users. It includes two methods of logging activities, a Model trait and an Activity::log()...
View ArticleReanimate – Let users “undo” a delete →
Reanimate simplifies undoing of soft-deletes for your application. If you use Gmail then you may have seen this in action. After you send an email this notification pops up: This package aims to make...
View ArticleAnnouncing Lumen
Lumen is a brand new PHP framework from Taylor Otwell designed for building lightning fast micro-services and API’s. When speed is a necessity, Lumen should be your first choice. One of the neat things...
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