November 22, 2020 — You might face a scenario where you’d want to restrict a user from submitting a form within a certain time limit. i.e to prevent spamming by users.

November 18, 2020 — The Laravel Telescope package is great for debugging your application when you’re working on your application in the local environment. It provides insight into the requests coming into your application, exceptions, log entries, database queries, queued jobs, mail, notifications, cache operations, scheduled tasks, variable dumps, and various other things in this beautiful interface.

November 16, 2020 — MySQL’s EXPLAIN statement is a handy tool if you want to take a quick glance over queries and to make out what’s wrong with them. Essentially, EXPLAIN is used to obtain a query execution plan (that is, an explanation of how MySQL would execute a query).

November 11, 2020 — When Laravel 8 released, It came with a lot of new features & improvements but along with it, the Laravel team has also introduced Jetstream for application scaffolding which comes with all the bells and whistles in-built such as login, registration, email verification, two-factor authentication, session management, API support via Laravel Sanctum, and optional team management.

November 9, 2020 — Alright! So, my first PR in laravel/framework has got merged and I’m on cloud 9 right now. I’m not kidding!

November 6, 2020 — Sometimes, there comes a scenario where you want to loop over a collection or array and include Blade views based on the iteration of that collection/array. You can use @foreach and @include for this purpose but there’s a handy way using which you can simplify this process.

November 3, 2020 — If you’re working with the latest frameworks, it’s not very difficult to set up environment variables for your app.

November 2, 2020 — Sometimes, all you want to do is generate temporary URLs for files that you have stored on your AWS S3 bucket. For instance, you would want to use this to prevent hotlinking of images.

November 1, 2020 — The newest version of PHP, the PHP 8.0, is coming later this year (November 26, 2020) and it will come packed with many new features such as constructor property promotion, match expressions, nullsafe operator, attributes and a lot others.

October 30, 2020 — Of many great new features that PHP 8 has introduced, one of the most confusing that I found were called “Attributes”, until today. Attributes in PHP 8 got revised many times before gets settled to the current implementation that we will see in a bit.