December 8, 2020 — If you’ve ever worked with PHPUnit for TDD, you might be aware of the fact that PHPUnit’s default test reports are pretty minimal and ambiguous.

December 7, 2020 — If you’re following the TDD (Test Driven Development) using PHPUnit, you probably stumbled upon a scenario where you would have in need to skip/take some of the tests.

December 5, 2020 — If you’re working with PHP for a while, there might be a good chance that you’d be in need to fetch the class of an object. This could be mostly for debugging purposes.

December 3, 2020 — Sometimes, there might be a case where you would want some of the code that lies outside of the transaction to be executed only when the corresponding transaction commits successfully and if in any case, it’s a rollback, that code shouldn’t be executed.

November 25, 2020 — Laravel keeps getting better on each of its major releases. But sometimes, it’s the minor and patch releases that take the cake by introducing some lesser-noticed features.

November 24, 2020 — When you install packages through Composer, it will parse the composer.json of your project and try to install all the dependencies listed in it under require and require-dev keys.

November 23, 2020 — As the official release date (26th November 2020) of PHP’s latest and greatest version PHP 8 is approaching, let’s take a look at every new feature and improvement that the PHP team has managed to fit in this version.

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).