Extending Validator facade for custom validation rules in Laravel
October 5, 2020 — In one of my articles, I’ve explained how you can extend class behavior using macros in Laravel.
Resolving dependencies conditionally using service container in Laravel
October 3, 2020 — One of the standard ways to resolve dependencies in Laravel is by using service container. Essentially, if you want to inject something which can be swappable anytime, you can do this by “biding” that into the service container.
Short functions could be coming in PHP 8.1
September 28, 2020 — PHP 8 is around the corner and it is coming packed with a lot of new features. But there’s something exciting cooking in PHP 8.1 already.
Laravel Ecosystem Jargon
September 24, 2020 — Laravel, as a framework, has grown slowly but strongly since its inception and so is its ecosystem. The ecosystem here is all the packages/products that are built by the Laravel team which revolves around the original Laravel framework. This includes open-source packages and premium/paid products.
Catchable queued closures in Laravel 8
September 23, 2020 — One of the handiest features of Laravel is the ability to dispatch Closures to queues. This is because you don’t always need to create a job class for simple tasks such as sending emails.
Import and export only a function under namespace in PHP
September 22, 2020 — The standard way of including files in modern PHP development is using namespaces and autoloading of classes using Composer.
How to pull GitHub repositories as Composer packages in PHP
September 19, 2020 — Sometimes there comes a scenario when you might want to pull the composer package’s GitHub repository as the composer package itself. This can be useful in situations where you want to upgrade something but because one of the dependencies is still not compatible with the current version of the software.
How to use Laravel 7.x model factories in Laravel 8
September 18, 2020 — Laravel 8’s class-based model factories are great and I’ve written an entire article about what they are and how they are more feature-rich and useful than the traditional factories that we used to write prior to Laravel 8.
Prevent spammy form submissions by bots using this Honeypot technique in PHP
September 17, 2020 — In modern web applications, one of the pain points everyone faces at some point is spam submissions to forms by automated bots.
How to use Laravel 7 style controller route definitions in Laravel 8
September 16, 2020 — One of the most prominent changes in Laravel 8 is the (kind of) new way of defining controller routes. Before Laravel 8, if you wanted to define a route, you could do it like so.
