Written by Pascal Baljet Media - Blog
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on Jan. 31, 2018
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…
Written by Pascal Baljet Media - Blog
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on Aug. 22, 2017
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 cou…
Written by Pascal Baljet Media - Blog
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on Aug. 20, 2017
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…
Written by Pascal Baljet Media - Blog
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on Apr. 27, 2017
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…
Written by Pascal Baljet Media - Blog
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on Feb. 7, 2017
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 disc…
Written by Pascal Baljet Media - Blog
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on Jan. 20, 2017
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…