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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…
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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…
Written by Pascal Baljet Media - Blog
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on Jan. 16, 2017
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 an…
Written by Pascal Baljet Media - Blog
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on Dec. 28, 2016
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…
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on Dec. 24, 2016
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…