Today we are releasing a new Laravel package! It's a toolbox for monitoring first and third-party services and APIs, it keeps you notified about services going down (and up!). Out of the box it supports checking HTTP endpoints and verifying SSL certificates and the package allows you to generate your own checkers as …
Laravel 5.4 (January, 2017) came with the introduction of Laravel Dusk , a first-party package with support for browser automation and a corresponding testing API. The HTTP testing layer got rewritten and became much more focussed on APIs from Laravel 5.4 onwards. Some of the HTTP testing tools were removed and …
After some issues that got opened on GitHub I decided to write a blogpost on the Laravel FFmpeg package we created. We use this package ourselves in three different production environments. The example below is not taken from one of these projects but the goal is to give you a sense of what you could do with this …
The next version of Laravel, which is a LTS release, will be released during and shortly after Laracon EU 2017 . Laravel News has published some great articles of changes and new features in the framework. These are some of my personal favourites: Auto-registering of new console commands Carbon is now …
Besides the famous Collection class that Laravel provides it also has a Str class that has lots of great functions to work with strings. Some of these functions are available through helper functions and others you have to find in the API documentation . Last week we were working with a third party API that …
As you might know, Laravel Valet makes it super easy to do development on your Mac. For Laravel there are some great packages to handle mail testing such as MailThief and Laravel Mail Preview Driver . You could also use a online service like Mailtrap to do mail testing. Another option I want to discuss is …
One undocumented gem I found today in the Laravel Framework is the withValidator method on a FormRequest class. If this method exists on your request class , this method gets called with the Validator instance as first argument. It allows you to interact with the validator instance before the actual validation …
The release of version 5.4 of the Laravel Framework is expected to be released in the next few weeks. Some exiting new features, enhancements and changes are coming! Here's a short overview of what to expect. New features Laravel Dusk, which provides an expressive, easy-to-use browser automation and testing …
Besides the framework itself, the Laravel brand has much more to offer. There are development environments, optional packages and services that help you get your projects online. Along with some rebranding that was announced, I'd like to give an overview of the Laravel ecosystem. Laravel Framework and components …
Jordi Boggiano, co-founder of Packagist and lead developer of Composer, announced the release of version 1.3.0 of Composer. It has some great new features and added a workaround for the performance impact that is caused by running PHP with Xdebug enabled. Composer can update itself by running the self-update …
For a project which has to deal with prices, we decided to use the PHP Money library . It is an implementation of Fowler's Money pattern and has great features and no dependencies. Most important, you shouldn't represent (and store) monetary values by a float. It takes away the problem of rounding errors and …
When you have the Xdebug extension for PHP installed and enabled, most of your PHP code will run notably slower. A little helper tool called ' Xdebug Toggler for OSX ' provides an easy way to quickly enable or disable Xdebug from the terminal: You can find the source code on GitHub and installing it is easy …
Eloquent provides an easy way to add a relationship count condition to a query. Say you have a User model and a Role model which are related to each other using a many-to-many relationship. Using Eloquent it is very easy to get all Users that have one or more Roles or doesn't have Roles at all: UserModel::has('Role…
At the office we're using an Ubuntu server for filesharing amongst other things. After upgrading to macOS Sierra 10.12, the Finder app keeps asking for credentials when you try to connect to a network share: With the latest 10.12.2 update, Apple fixed this with a preference you can set. According to Apple , this …
Recently a team of nearly 100 developers released version 1.0 of Hyper, an open-source terminal based on web technologies that runs on Linux, macOS and Windows. The development team focused on speed and extensibility. It can easily be styled with themes and extensions are universal Node.js modules which can interact …
Every once in a while when I try to access a git repository, I need to enter a passphrase for my public/private key. Without having modified once of the keys, somehow the macOS authentication agent seems to forget the keys. $ git pull Enter passphrase for key '/Users/pascalbaljet/.ssh/id_rsa': Of course you …