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Parallel Processing with PHP: why, how, and when

When we think of PHP, we typically imagine synchronous, single-threaded code that handles one task at a time. But PHP is more versatile than it's often credited for. Thanks to the process control (pcntl) support, PHP can manage parallelism through proces

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Mastering Laravel Collections

Laravel’s Collection class is one of the most powerful and expressive features of the framework. While it often flies under the radar for newcomers, mastering collections can significantly simplify your code, increase readability, and give you more contro

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Ensuring Environment Variables Are Set in Laravel

I was recently browsing through X and saw an awesome code tip from Oussama Mater about a method I didn't know existed in Laravel. So I wanted to put together a quick article to share it with you all so you can benefit from it too!

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Using OpenAI to generate 1000 test questions for $6

Learn how I used OpenAI to generate 1,000 quiz questions for the quizzes feature of this site, all for $6.

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Validate Data Types in Laravel Collections Using the `ensure()` Method

The ensure() method allows you to ensure that the items in a Collection are of a specific data type. If an item in the Collection is not of the specified data type, the method will throw an UnexpectedValueException.

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Generating status badges using PHP

ecently, we introduced a nice new feature to Oh Dear: status badges. A status badge is a beautiful SVG that shows the uptime status of your site.

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Laravel Queue Cheatsheet

Let;s define some of the more confusing configurations in Laravel queue management.

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Create Beautiful Charts in Filament With the Apex Charts Plugin

The Apex Charts plugin for Filament by Leandro Ferreira brings the popular Apex Chart library to your Laravel applications. This plugin uses the same API as the Apex Chart library, so you can use the official documentation as a configuration reference for

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Creating beautiful invoices using Tailwind and Laravel PDF

Last week, we released a new package called Laravel PDF that allows you to transform Blade views into PDFs. Under the hood, Chromium is used to perform the transformation. Because Chromium is an up-to-date browser, you can use any modern CSS you like.

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Exploring Middleware in Laravel 11

Laravel 11 is set to release in "Q1" of 2024, which may be as soon as next month.

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Self-healing URLs in Laravel

These packages have a similar goal: you can change your model's route slug at will or only partially match a URL and never have to worry about SEO indexing when the slug changes.

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Laravel Pulse Beta Released

Pulse delivers at-a-glance insights into your application's performance and usage. Track down bottlenecks like slow jobs and endpoints, find your most active users, and more.