Advanced laravel

In this tutorial, you will learn how to use Laravel's form builder. The form builder will be demonstrated to facilitate the building of the following elements: Form (open and close) Label Input (text, HTML5 password, HTML5…

Quite often, Eloquent automatically takes a collection to transform it into something that you can output in a better way. For example, here is the code that I am using to show a list of a magazine website's news categories:…

If we would like to not have the event handled immediately, but rather, put into the queue, we can add –queued to the create command as follows: $ php artisan handler:eventdateReservedEmail --event=dateWasReserved --queued…

This is a really cool way to deal with many-to-many relationships. However, attaching and detaching things could be a little boring sometimes. Let's try the sync() method: $category->books->sync( );…

Its sure; this works really well. However, it is not the best way you can do it. In fact, with Eloquent, you can work with related models using some other specific methods. Let's rewrite this example using the method save() on a…

Let's imagine a good example for many-to-many relationships. Well, the books/categories relationship is perfect. In fact, imagine Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Jules Verne.…

If you take a look at the code into the model you will see two methods: toArray and toJson. These two methods are the ones that make the magic happen. // from the IlluminateDatabaseEloquentModel class ... /** *…

Let's suppose that we are searching for the document number of a specific user. We will use the User and IdentityDocument entities we just saw. For the purpose of this example, imagine that you have a table identitydocuments with the…

As you probably imagined, Eloquent has a lot of utilities and methods that can improve your life as a developer. Trying to cover every single method would be hard but besides the most common methods, there are a few other methods that…

Sometimes, you will need to use the aggregates functions. No problem! Here is how you can do it with Eloquent. AppBook::count(); This is an example of its practical use: Route::get('book_get_books_count', function(){…

Laravel 5 has adopted the command bus pattern. Laravel 4 viewed commands as something to be executed from the command line, whereas in Laravel 5, a command can be used in any context, allowing excellent reuse of code. The following is an…

A common situation that occurs during the development process is that a schema is created, and then, we need to create a migration from that schema. At the time of writing, there is no official tool to do this in the Laravel core, but there…

In this  article i will show you how to add fractal service provider in Laravel 5 and Lumen , before i get started do you know what fractal is ? dont worry  checkout these docs or in short Fractal is very useful to transform data before…

Eloquent has many ways to transform the model data into something more readable or usable (and vice versa). In this article, we are going to analyze three of them: attributes casting, accessors, and mutators. Attributes casting…

Query scopes are very funny and also powerful. I really like them because, like many programmers out there, I am absolutely and overwhelmingly lazy. I also have a great justification for my laziness: the Don't Repeat Yourself (DRY)…

The best approach to describe the Strategy pattern is through a problem. The need for the Strategy pattern In this design pattern, the logic is extracted from complex classes into easier components so that they can be…

Events observers Model events are cool, I agree. However, sometimes, you could need something more advanced. When you use Laravel, you are working mostly with object-oriented programming and probably want to do the same…

A developer usually must face two types of projects: Applications and applications, as follows: For applications, I intend something that you can do, maybe in a quick way, with some workarounds and some hacks, here and there. Also, I…

If you know a couple of things about good development and best practices, you have probably heard about software design patterns. You can define them as useful solution templates for a certain kind of problem, or to be more precise:…

Until now, I told you everything about models and how to create relationships between them. I explained you how to query your data and relationships and even to specify complex conditions and constraints. However, I have never told you…

Another really interesting Eloquent feature is the possibility to define (and then access) a distant relation, using the hasManyThrough() method. What? I see you are a little confused. No problem: let's take another example, which is a…

Two route-based middleware classes are present in Laravel 5 in app/Http/Middleware/. One of these classes is named Authenticate. It provides basic authentication and uses a contract. In reference to routes, the middleware sits between…

Until now, you have learned how to define relationships and query them, in order to get data from related models. However, you can also insert and update related models in an easy way. Let's pick a really basic example to get started:…

DocBlock annotations in Laravel When Laravel 5 was being developed, support for routing and event listeners via DocBlock annotations was originally added. Its syntax was similar to Symfony and Zend. …

An eloquent way of importing and exporting Excel and CSV files inLaravel 5.* with the power of PHPOffice’s PHPExcel Installation Require this package in your composer.json and update composer. This will download the package and PHPExcel of…

Numerous cutting edge web applications offer redid substance to their clients, including giving them a custom subdomain where they can get to their substance. For instance, rather than a client's profile page being…

Every powerful tool must be used wisely. Relationships in Eloquent are no exception to the rule. Actually, one of the most common problems in using Eloquent is the N + 1 problem. To explain it, I will use an example as usual. Let's…

Until this point, we worked with the Schema class using some simple routes. Quite easy, but it's not a very good practice. You know: the single responsibility principle is not just a bedtime story. Also, it's not just about the code: the…