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Effective immutability with PHPStan
Did you know that DateImmutable isn’t really immutable? Read more
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Add comments to SQL queries made by Laravel
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We've released a new package called spatie/laravel-sql-commenter. This one can add comments to SQL queries. These comments allow you to easily pinpoint the origin of a query when looking at your query log.
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Encrypting Laravel Eloquent models with CipherSweet
We’ve just released laravel-ciphersweet. This package is a wrapper over CipherSweet, which allows you to easily use it with Laravel’s Eloquent models. Read more
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Linked Lists explained in PHP
Linked lists are a linear data structure that provides quick insertion and deletion. Read more
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Introducing sidecar-browsershot
A short introduction to sidecar-browsershot package: How it works and for what it can be used for. Read more
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★ Using Laravel Vite to automatically refresh your browser when changing a Blade file
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Yesterday, the Laravel team released the vite-plugin. Going forward, Vite will become the standard build tool for Laravel apps.
One of the cool features of this Vite integration is that you'll get hot reloading by default. Whenever you run Vite with nom dev and modify a JS or CSS file, Vite will automatically recompile the assets and refresh your browser. This way, you won't have to refresh your browser manually after making a change.
Wouldn't it be cool if this automatic refresh would work when we're changing a Blade file?
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★ Making Vite and Valet play nice together
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Yesterday, the Laravel team launched the official vite-plugin. From now on, Vite will be the standard build tool for Laravel. The main benefits are vastly improved build times and a more straightforward API. Want to know more about it? Head over to the official docs. There's also a migration guide to go from Mix to Vite.
When I followed that guide to upgrade the freek.dev codebase from Mix to Vite , npm dev could successfully start-up Vite, but in the browser the JS / CSS did not load. Let's review how I could fix that.
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Server Side Form Validation in PHP.
Validation may be a quite common task in web applications. Entered data should be Validated before sending it to the server. This post deals with server-side form validation in PHP. After reading this post we’ll Read more…
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Building social images with Browsershot and AWS
Creating social images for your website is super simple using Browsershot and AWS Lambda. Read more
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★ Using the `Attachable` interface to attach any kind of file to a Mail in a Laravel app
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Laravel 9 has gained a excellent new way to attach files in mails. Using the Attachable interface, you can specify what should happen when an object gets used as an attachment.
Using our media library package you can easily associate any file with an Eloquent model. We've added support for Laravel's Attachable in the latest version of the package.
In this blog post, I'd like to tell you all about it.