Archive for Apr 2017

Doorman – Limit access to your Laravel applications through invite codes

Doorman is a Laravel package that allows you to limit access to your Laravel applications by using invite codes.

MarkdownMail – A Web App to Create Laravel Markdown Email Themes

MarkdownMail is a new web app that allows you to create markdown email themes for you Laravel apps.

PHP Roundtable – Laravel Edition

Today the PHP Roundtable had a Laravel inspired edition featuring Taylor Otwell, Mohamed Said, Jeffrey Way, Adam Wathan, and Dries Vints.

Laravel 5.4.20 is Released

Laravel 5.4.20 is now released and available.

Laravel Language Manager

Laravel Langman, created by Mohamed Said, is a GUI for managing your JSON language files in a Laravel project.

Building an Interactive Voice Response System with Laravel and Nexmo

Want to dial your Laravel app, and have it talk back to you? Let’s take a quick look at how to build a really simple IVR (interactive voice response) – a ‘phone menu’ – with Laravel and Nexmo. When it’s done, you’ll be able to pick up your cell phone, dial a phone number, and have your Laravel app control what you hear.

LaraCSV – Generate CSV files from your Eloquent models

LaraCSV is a new package from Muhammad Usman that allows you to fluently generate CSV files from your Eloquent Models.

The Static Site Generator Jigsaw Launched V1.0

Jigsaw, a static site generator, made by Tighten just tagged and launched v1.0 that includes the addition of Collections. These allow you to work with a list of related content, like blog posts, a portfolio of your work, staff bios, and more.

An Introduction to Laravel Authorization Gates

Laravel Gate has an elegant mechanism to ensure users are authorized to perform actions on resources. Before version 5.1, developers used ACL packages such as Entrust or Sentinel along with middlewares for authorization. The problem with this approach is the permissions you attach to users are just flags; they don’t encode the complex logic of …

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Laravel 5.5 Adds Support for Custom Exception Reporting

In Laravel 5.5 it will be possible to define a report method on any custom exception. Laravel will look for the existence of the report method on any exception that it catches in the Illuminate\Foundation\Exceptions\Handler class. if (method_exists($e, ‘report’)) { return $e->report(); } This is a convenient place to send a notification email to the …

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