#Laravel

Having worked with Electron and Tauri to build desktop apps, I always thought it would be super cool if someone figured a way to build desktop apps with PHP. Well, that dream came true - in a way -...

In Part 1 I described the command I built with Laravel Prompts to import a CSV file into a SQLite database. Now, I'll dive deeper into how I used spatie/laravel-data for the ItemData...

I've been hacking on a side project in Laravel that may never see the light of day, but I think it's worth talking about the building blocks I used for it. The core functionality revolves around...

In 2023 I changed jobs. For my next position, I was interested in two things: 100% remote work and Laravel. Thankfully, my job search was successful and I found exactly what I was looking for: a...

🎉 After many years this blog finally has a comments section of sorts! I have recently added Mastodon replies to blog posts. Granted, the audience is small for now, but I'm hoping to grow it over...

If you've read my 2022 Programming Stack article, then it shouldn't be much of a surprise to hear that it hasn't changed much for 2023, with one notable exception: I've replaced Electron with Tauri....

A list of Laravel and PHP packages I absolutely need in every project, continuously updated. This list is relatively short because I follow the principle "avoid packages until it hurts". I use...

My recent tweet on refactoring Laravel Eloquent query conditions to a trait proved popular so here it is with a little more context, in permanent form. My biggest side-project at the moment...

I've been working and experimenting a lot lately with Carbon, the sublime PHP date and time utility library. I've tweeted a lot of Carbon tips and decided to collect all these tips into a permanent...

Following up on my previous article on grouping data using MySQL Common Table Expressions, I am offering an implementation of the same technique in Laravel. Note This requires MySQL v8.0+....

As we slowly roll into 2022, I decided to take a step back and have an objective look at my coding stack for the near future. It's a short one - I'll keep it focused strictly on my programming...

The Summer 2021 edition of Laracon just ended, and I collected a variety of interesting links. Here they are. Gathered from @enunomaduro and his Types In Laravel talk Laracon schedule CLI tool...

When building an app around Strava's API, webhooks become critical, first to avoid unnecessarily polling the API, and second to enable automatic updates for activities and user profile. The latter...

Recently the local PHP 8 + Composer 2 + Laravel Valet dev environment on my M1 Mac Air got trashed for no discernable reason. This might well be an obscure problem that no one else but me...

Cycling has become one of my most cherished hobbies in 2020, and I did what every developer does when they love a hobby: built an app for it. I'm using Strava's API to pull my rides into a Laravel 8...

I don't know about you, but working with SVGs icons or images has always been a hassle. That's why I've been iterating on easy ways to reuse SVG icons in my Laravel projects. Today I'm going to...

I recently implemented an "edit in place" feature on my SaaS 1Secret, following the addition of labels for secrets. In 1Secret, you can see all the ongoing secrets on the dashboard, and they are...

Apologies in advance for the slightly click-baity title, but bear with me and this method might prove useful to you. At any rate, I'm documenting it for my own use. The official 6.0 -> 7.0 upgrade...

The fashion these days dictates that every developer blog post come with a hero image. While not entirely true, I started this pattern with the blog and I'll be damned if I end it. The blog engine...

When I spun up a new Livewire component with artisan (Laravel's CLI tool) recently, I was intrigued enough by the cute ASCII logo to take a look at the source code to see how it was...

I must have started 2020 on the right foot because my first tweet of the year was the most popular by far. It's basically a short animation of the sign up form that I built for my SaaS app...

Ever ran out of disk space on your Vagrant/Homestead database partition? Neither did I... until recently. Here's how it happened and how I fixed it. The image above is a screenshot of the error...

The first few times I ran into the "No input file specified" error while trying to get a new Laravel project working in my local environment, it took me a while to figure out. Fear not, Laravel...

I've been working on a SaaS product and I'm close to an official launch, but based on preliminary user feedback I decided to rebrand the site to a new domain name. The previous domain was rather...

I've been using Laravel Forge for over a year at my day job, but also to provision and deploy my side project 1Secret.app. To me, the biggest benefit that Forge brings is the ability to easily and...

While working on my SaaS app Sikrt.com I ran into what I thought was a bug, which caused me to waste almost 2 hours tracking it down. In the end it turned out to be something trivial. TL;DR An...

What better way to give back to the amazing open-source (and especially Laravel) community than to unlock the code behind Omigo.sh? To iterate, Omigo.sh is built on TightenCo's Jigsaw static site...

As wonderful as Laravel's documentation is, there are still plenty of undocumented features and hidden gems in the codebase. One of them is an Eloquent method called firstOr(). It first...

Laravel offers a nice helper method that you can use temporarily in your tests to turn off exception handling by the framework. What happens in certain cases is that you won't see the actual error...

I'm building a file upload/download feature into my SaaS app Sikrt, and after working out the kinks in a prototype version of the feature, to my consternation I discovered that clicking the download...

I've wanted to contribute to open-source for a long time but getting started is always the hardest part. PHP package development is one of those areas that sounds simple on the surface but if you...

Building APIs in Laravel (or more generally in PHP) often implies responding with some sort of JSON data. The format of this data should ideally be standardized. I try to follow the JSON API standard...

One annoyance of working in Windows in an open-source tech stack is that a lot of the dev tooling isn't as good as on a Mac. The problem rears its ugly head whenever I have to use...

There are situations where I need to remove one or more query parameters from my app's URL, and then return the new URL. Similarly, I want to be able to add a new parameter easily. Furthermore, in...

I have a predilection for using enum column types in my Laravel projects. I don't abuse them but I turn to them often when I have a well-defined range of possible values. One of the disadvantages of...

Like a lot of people, I hate working with forms. It's one of those tedious things that almost never gets better. Most projects that accept user input will require one or more forms at some point. And...

In my previous post I said I would give my reasons for switching from Wink to Jigsaw and also explain what my needs are in relation to a blogging platform. Wink is a new open-source blogging...

Wait, there's barely any content on this blog (close to nothing in fact) and it's already gone through an overhaul? What gives? Well, I'm glad you asked. You see, one of the things that prevented me...

Update (September 15, 2020): This issue is still present and relevant in Laravel 8. I ran into it while testing a fresh installation with Jetstream teams, trying to update my user profile photo....