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.
Sometimes, especially in bigger projects, we run into issue of writing a create migration for the same table, or even column that already exist. Luckily, Laravel has a quick way of checking it.
Database seeding is a convenient function, but it is designed to run once, in the beginning of the project. What if later you want to add some new seeder and unable to run db:seed or migrate:fresh cause current data is already important? There's a cure.
In Blade language there's a simple @include() command, where you just pass the view path as a parameter. But what if you're not 100% sure if that view exists? Or what if you want to make it a dynamic variable? Let's explore the possibilities.
One of the less-known Laravel features is Login throttling. By default, if user tries to log in via default Laravel login form more than 5 times per minute, they will get different error message.
Laravel comes with great Auth out-of-the-box. But some projects don't allow public registration, they send invitation links instead. This article will show you how to implement it.
Quite often we need to save addresses in the database, and we want them to be accurate. Probably, the best way to ensure it is to provide customers with input field where they choose the address from auto-completed values as they type. This article will show you how to achieve it in Laravel, let's build a "location picker" with Google Maps API.
Laravel has a great feature of binding models by id field. So you can specify edit(User $user) and system would know to find the user from ID in the URL. But what if you want to bind by some other field?
