Laravel
Laravel. Love it or hate it. Personally, I love it - 99% of the time.
Here's a list of all my posts related to the greatest PHP framework out there
April 26, 2023
Living with Autism as a Developer
Awareness of ASD and Autism is growing, but there is still a long way to go. I have autism, and I use various techniques such as masking to deal with day to day life. How does this impact my work as a developer and interactions with people in a working environment?
ReadNovember 25, 2020
How to setup a Laravel Application on Mac and macOS
Fast and easy guide to working with Laravel on a MacOS system. Perfect for Macbook Pro or Air. Beginner friendly!
ReadJuly 3, 2020
Windows or Mac / Linux - Which is better for Laravel?
For decades developers have argued over tabs and spaces. But if you're building a Laravel application, should you use Windows? MacOS? Linux?
ReadApril 12, 2020
Route Model Binding in Laravel
Route Model Binding in Laravel is incredibly powerful, and a key skill in any PHP Developer's set. You can quickly build dynamic routes and pull data from the database with some simple type hints.
ReadFebruary 14, 2020
Fall in love with PHP again. Let Laravel be your Valentine
PHP in 2020 has a bad reputation. Should I learn PHP? Is PHP relevant? Why learn PHP? What is Laravel? PHP powers a large proportion of the web, and will never disappear.
ReadJanuary 14, 2020
A 'Who's Who' breakdown of the 'big names' in Laravel
Laravel is a worldwide and industry defining framework. There's a few key names in the community that you've seen / heard of - or maybe want to look into.
ReadJanuary 10, 2020
Writing Clean Skinny Controllers in Laravel using the '__invoke()' method
Laravel is all about writing clean, minimal code, that does a lot and is easy to maintain. Often this means that controllers get bloated with methods of endpoints all
ReadOctober 28, 2019
Top 5 Common Issues When Using Laravel
Setting your application key, running your migrations, turning off maintenance mode. Some of the most common issues faced in Laravel. TRIGGER WARNING 😡
ReadSeptember 1, 2019
Scraping / Scripting a Web Page using Laravel Dusk
Using Laravel's Dusk package, we can scrape data from a website. Similar to that of Selenium, or a Web Spider. Using a recent experience for a Hackathon, I'll guide you through my approach to this process and how it works
ReadAugust 27, 2019
JSON APIs with Laravel: Part 5 - Authentication and Permissions
Adding an extra layer of complexity to our basic API to allow for permission based restrictions and responses
ReadAugust 19, 2019
JSON APIs with Laravel: Part 4 - Controller Methods and Data Validation
Let's add some data to our endpoints and finalise our basic API setup
ReadJuly 30, 2019
JSON APIs with Laravel: Part 3 - Controllers, Routing and Data Exposure
Following parts 1 and 2, we now need to hook up our data to the front end and get some exposure. Follow along as we build our controllers and bind some routing to get our API online
ReadJuly 25, 2019
Update on the JSON APIs with Laravel Series
Hi all! Just a quick update on the above series. If you have no idea what I'm on about, you can read Part 1 here I've written most of part 3 and 4, however haven't found time to quite polish them...
ReadJuly 15, 2019
JSON APIs with Laravel: Part 2 - Models, Factories, and Seeders
Recap: If you haven't read part 1, you can find it here; We looked at what APIs do, and what kind of functionality we're looking to achieve with this little series. We also established that we're...
ReadJuly 8, 2019
JSON APIs with Laravel: Part 1 - Learning the Ropes
Most of a server-side / back-end developer's role will involve integrating with, or serving up APIs. In this short series, we're going to make our own very basic JSON API using Laravel. I'm not sure...
ReadJune 12, 2019
Laravel UK 2019 - Day 2
If you haven't already, check out my notes on Day 1 of Laravel Live UK here. I will be referencing some points made in those talks here. Day 2 has arrived! After a rather sleepless night in my hotel...
ReadJune 11, 2019
Laravel UK 2019 - Day 1
This week I attended the Laravel UK Conference in London. I've tried to summarise each speakers' talk into a bitsize snippet. Here's Day 1! After some coffee, excessive amount of morning pastries,...
ReadJune 6, 2019
Testing a PHP/Laravel Application
Love it or hate it, testing is a necessary evil. It proves that your application works as intended and hopefully covers off any "unwanted features" slipping in. With the recent rise in TDD, I'm going...
ReadApril 2, 2019
5 Tips and Tricks for Laravel: Models
Love it or hate it, Laravel's Model layer is one of it's biggest positives and reasons to use it. It comes shipped with the Eloquent ORM which is an Active Record implementation. A lot of the...
ReadFebruary 26, 2019
Top 5 Laravel Tools - PHP Development
Every developer has their way of building a site, and as such, they'll have products, services, and integrations that they like to use to make this process more efficient. Here's my Top 5 Tools list,...
ReadJanuary 6, 2019
Managing Filters in Laravel
Filtering your Models in Laravel is a common question, and often comes with a lot of "enthusiasm" from each side. Do you filter in your; Controller? Model? A Trait? Some service? All have their...
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