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Define Casts in a Query

Laravel has Eloquent attribute and custom casting. But did you know about query-time casting? It's documented in Laravel, and illustrated beautifully by Aaron Francis.

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10 Random Laravel Snippets & Methods, Part 4

I write code blocks down that I know I won't use often and will forget about. Every so often I go through them to refresh my memory.

Laravel Eloquent

Refactoring with Laravel's new whereRelation methods

Prior to this simple PR, we needed verbose closures to do simple queries on relationships. Now it can be done on one line with these simple helpers.

Community Eloquent Laravel

[8.x] Adds a simple where helper for querying relations

Creates the whereRelation() and orWhereRelation() helpers, and whereMorphRelation() and orWhereMorphRelation() for morph relations.

Community Eloquent Laravel

Immutable dates in Laravel

This week's 8.53.0 release includes new "immutable_date" and "immutable_datetime" casts for Eloquent!

Laravel Eloquent

Pruning Laravel Models

In the latest version of Laravel 8, Eloquent models now come with a Prunable and MassPrunable trait to automatically delete models based on criteria.

Community Laravel Eloquent Database

Laravel one-of-many relationships

This pull request to the Laravel framework provides a solution for creating one-to-one relations that are a partial relation of a one-to-many relation.

Community Laravel Eloquent

Ordering database queries by relationship columns in Laravel

In this article we're going to explore how to order database queries by the value (column) of an Eloquent relationship.

Community Laravel Eloquent

Dynamic relationships in Laravel using subqueries

Use subqueries in Laravel to optimize your database selects.

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Giving collections a voice

I gave a talk on this topic at LaraconAU, 2019. It covers all the ways custom collections can improve your systems design and contains some more guidance on when you would reach for this pattern.