Laravel

Validating Laravel Console Input

Ryan Chandler shows us how to create a trait to handle console input validation.

Database

Things every developer absolutely, positively needs to know about database indexing

Kai Sassnowski takes an in-depth dive into database indexing and the best times to use each approach.

Laravel Livewire Broadcasting

Laravel Batches and real-time progress with Livewire

Upload files using Laravel Echo, Livewire, and Laravel Batch Jobs

CSS

10 New CSS Features You Might Not Know About (2021 Edition)

Here are some of the amazing things that CSS is capable of these days.

Modern PHP Cheat Sheet

A to-the-point summary of all awesome PHP features

Laravel Broadcasting

Laravel Real-Time Notifications

In this post, we will take a look at how we can send real-time notifications with Laravel, the Laravel Websockets package, and Laravel Echo.

iOS

8 Tips to Make Your Website Feel Like an iOS App

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.

Laravel Eloquent

Dynamic relationships in Laravel using subqueries

Use subqueries in Laravel to optimize your database selects.

Laravel

Everything I Ever Needed To Know About Web Dev, I Learned From My Twitter Timeline

Colin DeCarlo gives his talk on some ideas on cleaning up code in your application gained from "fire tweets" on twitter.

Laravel

Some Shifty Bits

Jason McCreary, creator of Laravel Shift, gives his talk on the parts of Laravel that are under-used. He explains how these pieces of the framework can make your code and your apps faster.

Laravel Eloquent

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.