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Laravel Auth Redirection
When you use Laravel’s built-in Auth system, it provides a redirectTo property on the LoginController, RegisterController, and ResetPasswordController. This property allows you to define the location...
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Checking the Code Complexity of your App
Yesterday, Taylor made a post comparing the code complexity between Laravel and other frameworks. The tool he used to generate these reports is called phploc and it’s very easy to run on your own code...
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Laravel Cashier, PHP 7.1, and domPDF Issue
Laravel Cashier includes the ability to generate PDF invoices through the dompdf PHP package. A bug has been discovered in dompdf when used in PHP 7.1, and it causes an “A non-numeric value...
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Laravel Uptime Monitor
The internet has become indispensable and the revenue source for a lot of people. It’s not acceptable for most web apps to be down even for a few seconds. Spatie released a very handy package called...
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Finding Suitable Work: Landing the Job
Suitable is defined as “right or appropriate for a particular person, purpose or situation.” Suitable work means thinking about more than just skill level. It’s about the strengths you possess beyond...
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Laravel Dusk Alpha Is Now Available For Testing
Laravel Dusk, the new end-to-end testing driver, coming to Laravel 5.4 is now available for Alpha Testing. Alpha: if you want to kick the tires with an alpha release of Dusk, you can install it now:...
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Laracon EU 2017 is Announced
The Laracon EU has just announced the dates and early bird ticket pricing for the 2017 conference. This year it will be August 28th through the 30th and will continue its multi-track with training,...
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Podcast: Welcome Jacob Bennett and Michael Dyrynda as the new hosts
Jacob Bennett and Michael Dyrynda will be taking over as hosts of the show going forward and this episode is a farewell from Jack and Eric and introductions of Jake and Michael. Apologies in advance...
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Laravel 5.4 Includes Two New Middleware
Laravel 5.4 is scheduled to be released next week, and it already includes many great new features, but the team was able to sneak in two new Middleware offerings. These are TrimStrings and...
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Automatically Making Monthly Payments with Dusk
Laravel Dusk is a new feature coming to Laravel 5.4 and even though that release isn’t out, people have started using it. In fact, Jordan Dalton is now using it to automatically pay his monthly...
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PHP 5.6 Is No Longer Actively Supported
As of yesterday, Jan 20th, 2017, PHP 5.6 will be no longer actively maintained, however It will still receive security fixes through December 31st, 2018. PHP 7.0 and 7.1 are the only two versions that...
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Habits of Highly Productive Tech Teams
There’s always a lot of talk about “culture” on tech teams. And that makes sense: managers generally hire people that will fit in well with the group they’ve assembled because they know there’s more...
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Understand.io – Online Event and Log Management (Sponsor)
Generating insight from your logs usually requires that you perform a search or manual scan. But this can be tedious and you need to be sure that you’re asking the right questions. Our recently...
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Laravel 5.4 Is Now Released
Version 5.4 of Laravel is now officially released! This release has many new features, and improvements and here is quick video going over some of the highlights: Laravel Dusk Laravel Dusk is an...
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Laravel 5.4: Specified key was too long error
Laravel 5.4 made a change to the default database character set, and it’s now utf8mb4 which includes support for storing emojis. This only affects new applications and as long as you are running MySQL...
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PhpStorm EAP adds support for Blade Components and Slots
JetBrains has just released PhpStorm 2017.1 EAP build (171.2613) and through the Laravel plugin, it now supports the new Laravel 5.4 components and slots feature. You can read more about this release...
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Laracon US is almost sold out
This year’s Laracon is making it’s return to New York City and it’s almost sold out with only 70 tickets still available for purchase. The event will be held at New World Stages on July 25th and 26th...
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Deprecations for PHP 7.2
The PHP 7.2 RFC for deprecating some current functionality has been approved. The following items are included in this list and will begin throwing deprecated notices: __autoload The magic __autoload...
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Find Laravel Code and Packages with GitHub’s New Topics Feature
Yesterday, GitHub announced a new “topics” feature that allows you to tag your repositories so that people can search for similar projects. Many Laravel related repo’s have already started utilizing...
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Laravel Eloquent Relationships Through Macros
A new feature just merged into Laravel and included in the v5.4.8 update is the ability to define Macros for Eloquent Relationships. To better show how this feature works here is a screenshot by...
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