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News / March 31, 2020

Laravel Validation 101, Controllers, Form Requests, and Rules

A core part of any project is understanding how to validate the incoming request from your users and in this tutorial let’s look at how we can setup validation with our controllers, form requests, and rules.

by Anthony Rappa

News / March 30, 2020

6 Laravel Eloquent Secrets to improve your code

Eloquent is the default ORM that ships with Laravel. It implements the Active-Record pattern and provides an easy way to interact with your database. Every single model represents a table in your database with which you can work. In this post, we’ll show you more or less hidden secrets, methods, and properties you might not know to improve your code.

by Stefan Bauer

News / March 27, 2020

Terminal: An Elegant Wrapper around the Symfony Process Component

Terminal is a neat PHP package by Titas Gailius that provides a “wrapper around Symfony’s Process component.”

by Paul Redmond

packages

News / March 26, 2020

Laravel 7.3 Released

The Laravel team released v7.3.0 yesterday. Learn about what’s new and check out the full release notes.

by Paul Redmond

Releases

News / March 25, 2020

Keep Track of Model Inventory with Laravel Stock

Laravel Stock is a package by Gijs Jorissen for keeping track of inventory counts on models.

by Paul Redmond

packages

News / March 24, 2020

How We Run Laracon Online

Ever wondered what all goes into running an online conference? Or want to see the behind scenes on how we do Laracon Online each year? Ian Landsman has a new post on his site on how to run a successful online conference.

by Eric L. Barnes

News / March 24, 2020

Laravel Airlock Renamed to Sanctum

If you missed the news last week, Laravel Airlock is now Laravel Sanctum. Let’s go through a few details on what has changed, and how to update existing projects.

by Paul Redmond

News / March 23, 2020

Laracon US 2020 Cancelled

Laracon US 2020 has been postponed due to COVID-19 and they are refunding all orders and might still have it as an online event.

by Eric L. Barnes

News / March 23, 2020

pdfmatrix.com: fast and reliable HTML 2 PDF conversion SaaS (sponsor)

The online application pdfmatrix.com may be relatively young on the PDF toolkit scene, but it has already pulled FAR ahead of its competitors with a lot of happy clients making it their go-to for HTML/URLs to PDF conversion in the months after its initial release. In case you are wondering, yes – FAR is an acronym. One that stands for Fast, Affordable, Reliable. Having said that, let’s break down all the neat aspects that provide pdfmatrix.com with its competitive edge.