Routing to Controllers
It's neat that we can provide a closure to handle any route's logic, however, you might find that for more sizable projects, you'll almost always reach for a …
It's neat that we can provide a closure to handle any route's logic, however, you might find that for more sizable projects, you'll almost always reach for a …
You may know that a route's handler can return a variety of different data types. For example, to list only a few, we could return a Response instance, or a …
Often, you'll need to construct a route that accepts a wildcard value. For example, when viewing a specific post, part of the URI will need to be unique. In …
The request() helper function can be used to fetch data from any GET or POST request. In this episode, we'll learn how to fetch data from the query-string, …
When I learn a new framework, the first thing I do is figure out how the framework's default splash page is loaded. Let's work through it together. Our first …
Laravel 6 ships with improved support for Eloquent subqueries, thanks to a few PRs from Jonathan Reinink. You may now add subqueries by using the new addSelect…
Before we get started, you must first ensure that up-to-date versions of both PHP and MySQL are installed and available on your machine. In this episode, we'll …
Now that we have Composer setup, we can pull in the Laravel installer and make it accessible globally on our machine. This allows you to run a single command …
If you're a Mac user, rather than running php artisan serve, you might instead choose to install Laravel Valet. Valet is a blazing fast development environment …
PHP's various reflection classes allow us to do all sorts of magical things. In fact, they're very much the backbone of Laravel's service container logic. In …
Before we dig into the nuts and bolts of Laravel, let's first zoom out and discuss what exactly happens when a request comes in.
When installing a fresh Laravel 6 application, you'll notice that the login and registration scaffolding, as well as the Vue/jQuery/Bootstrap boilerplate in …
The new default error page in Laravel 6 is something special. Contributed by the teams behind Spatie and Beyond Code, Ignition is a gorgeous and extensible …
The first stop on our Laravel 6 tour is lazy collections, contributed by Joseph Silber. This is easily one of my favorite additions to Laravel 6. While a …
PHP generators can be confusing to understand. Why and when would I reach for them? The easiest answer to this question is when you're working with very large …
Laravel's real-time facades feel like magic - in the best possible way. You try it out, it works, and you think to yourself, "Huh...how on earth did they do …
First up in this series, we'll answer a question related to the Gate facade, and how it locates the appropriate underlying instance to resolve out of Laravel's …
Let's begin working through some basic exercises. Using our blogging system, imagine that your boss wants to give a bonus to the ten most popular writers. …
For this next exercise, we'll return to the sample Sakila database. This time, your boss wants to know the average number of movie rentals per day across the …
As it turns out, when registering a new foreign key constraint, MySQL will automatically generate an index if you don't include one. This is done to guarantee …