Recently I've got some inspiration, watching video series or so-called "vlogs" by entrepreneurs like Gary Vaynerchuk. So decided to start something like that in Laravel world - a DAILY video series (except weekends). Short 5-10 minute episodes where I will share my thoughts about various topics from Laravel and web-dev business.
From time to time I write short tips about Laravel, and one of the most popular topics is Eloquent. It has so many "hidden" or poorly documented functionality, one of those is filtering parents by whether they have or don't have children. Let's see an example.
Another "hidden gem" of Eloquent. Let's imagine that you want to query all rows from the table and also one related row - not all of them, but the newest one. Apparently, it's pretty easy.
A little later than most "Year in Review" posts but it took some time to manually pick the most-clicked articles from our newsletter, there were 1000+ useful links from all over the web. Also I will mention authors with links to their profiles - let's thank them for their effort! So, what topics were the most popular in 2016?
Artisan Tinker is a nice way to quickly check some commands without making changes the code. You launch artisan tinker and can do things like database queries, check if some functions are working etc. But there's one thing to keep in mind.
Some Laravel functions are not mentioned or emphasized in the official docs, especially if they change from version to version. One of these examples is simple where() in Eloquent - what do you think, does it compare in a "strict" or "loose" way?
Recently I've found a small detail in Laravel documentation which I want to share with you. Apparently, it's possible to filter pivot tables additionally, if needed. Let me show you how.
