In-depth Laravel tutorials covering advanced topics, real-world examples, and best practices.
In your CRUD classes, it's good practice to use FormRequest classes for validation. Usually people create one for store() method and one for update() - something like StoreUserRequest and UpdateUserRequest. But maybe it's possible to combine them into one?
Eloquent has one less-known function called withCount(): it helps to get the amount of related records inside of the main object. It also works with two layers deep, inside of hasManyThrough relations. Let's take a look.
Another quick package video review - this time we're having Laravel Breadcrumbs, which helps to show the path with links to the record you're currently showing.
I've recently found a simple package that helps to transform any URL into embeddable HTML, the best examples are Youtube and Vimeo videos.
JSON fields are gaining more popularity since they became officially supported in MySQL 5.7.8. Even the popular Spatie Laravel Medialibrary package use them, so why shouldn't we? This tutorial will show you an example.
Short video with an example, how findOrFail() and similar methods may lead to unexpected result for the end user.
If you work with project or blog where records require so-called slug (posts, pages etc.), it's convenient to generate slug immediately after title has been typed in. This article will show you how to do it in Laravel, with AJAX and with a help of one Laravel package.
Pretty random question, almost like a trivia/pubquiz thing. Let's say I'm doing insert SQL query, and if it fails - for example, some foreign or unique key is violated. What would be the ID of the next successful inserted record? Will it increase?
File upload is one of the most popular features in modern web. And we have quite a few libraries that can help us to build upload form. Let's take two of my favorites - Dropzone on the front-end, and Spatie MediaLibrary on the back-end, and build a great uploading experience, in this tutorial.
