Historically, PHP has been a "loosely typed" language, with auto-converting between strings/integers and potential "magic" or bugs because of that. Slowly, the language itself evolved with type-hinting and return types, but also more people started to create their own object types, to define their object rules for minimizing bugs. These are called VALUE OBJECTS, and in this article, we'll cover when/how to use them.
After Black Friday is over, I want to give attention to those of you who couldn't afford the courses even with big discounts. You can get the Premium membership for free, if you really need it, read all the conditions below.
When it comes to the performance of the Laravel application, by far the no.1 problem I've seen is the database. DB Structure, Eloquent/SQL queries, and configuration - they all may cause many issues, so in this article, I've tried to compile "the ultimate guide" of what you need to know.
Deploying changes of your Laravel project to the server is not a simple process. I would separate that into 4 separate steps, or phases: code changes, dependencies, DB changes, and environment cleanup. Let's take a look at all of them, one by one.
When working with money in your Laravel projects, whether it's product prices or invoice total order amounts, we need to be extremely careful not to miscalculate something. Luckily, there are best practices and tools to help us with that, let's explore them in this article.
Back in 2017, Adam Wathan made a great talk at Laracon called CRUDdy By Design, which has been recommended and reshared online for years. I decided to summarize it in text form, so instead of watching all 40 minutes, you could read this quicker, also with more examples and my own opinion.
Under the hood, Laravel uses the Carbon library for many datetime operations. By default, every created_at/updated_at field in every Model is casted to Carbon objects, so you may write `$user->created_at->diffForHumans()`. But there are many more possibilities to that method, let's explore them.
This is a demo Laravel project to manage support tickets between regular users, agents, and admins, aimed at junior developers to practice their skills. This article contains both the task and its possible solution, with the repository link at the end.
This is a demo Laravel project aimed at junior developers to practice their skills. This article contains both the task and its possible solution, with the repository link at the end.
