Laravel

Articles about Laravel PHP framework development, covering Eloquent, routing, middleware, and best practices.

Composer, Laravel Nova, Laravel, Open source

Introducing Laravel Email on Event

Recently I was working on a Laravel project and I needed to add some sales e-mails: onboarding when someone registers, an e-mail when an order was placed. Those kinds of things.
August 1st, 2019
Laravel, Testing, Queue

Testing jobs in Laravel

Recently someone in a Slack channel i’m a member of asked the following:I want to test if job A fires job B, but how do you test something like that?Niek ten HoopenEspecially when the queue is set up to be run asychronus this seems impossible to test. The normal flow would be something like this:
July 15th, 2019
Cloudflare, Laravel, Laravel Forge, WordPress

Wordpress, Cloudflare & Laravel Forge

This always bites me when setting up a Wordpress site on Laravel Forge: You get a redirect loop. This article is therefor mostly written for myself.
April 22nd, 2019
Composer, Laravel, Magento, Valet Plus+, Quick Tip, Tooling

Install Magento 2 with one command (Valet+ only)

For my daily work as a freelancer i tend to use a lot of disposable environments: I use them to check a bug in that specific version for example, and them throw them away. Setting up Magento can be a lengthy process, but with this one liner i can bring it down to ~10 minutes, depending on you internet & cpu speed. It installs the required Magento version including sample data.
February 22nd, 2019
Freelancing, Laravel, Magento

What move to make next on my freelance career?

In 2015 i started my company, Control Alt Delete. As a developer, i was always building websites for friends and family. As this started to get out of hand, i decided to make it official and start a company. I did this next to my fulltime job, but eventually started doing this for 2 days a week, and in 2018, i decided to go fulltime.
January 9th, 2019
Accessing Magento data from Laravel
Laravel, Magento

Accessing Magento data from Laravel

Recently I was in the process of migrating a Magento webshop to a SaaS webshop solution. Normally I would access the product and other data by using the API. In this case this was a problem as there was a lot of data that I was not able to access. I needed the output of blocks and some custom modules which where not exposed to the API.
March 28th, 2018
Laravel, Quick Tip

Requiring .env entries in Laravel

In Laravel you can set your environment-specific variables by using the .env file. In the application you can then easily retrieve a variable by using the env('VARIABLE_NAME') function. This file is not meant to be added to Git. This way you can keep secret values in your project without accidentally adding them to Git and sharing them.
September 24th, 2017
Laracon, Laravel, Unconference

Laracon EU unconference

This week I attended the European version of Laracon. It was a lot of fun and I talked to a lot of friends. There were a lot of great talks.
August 31st, 2017
Continuous Deployment, Laravel, WordPress, Laravel Envoyer

Laravel Envoyer and WordPress Deployments

Deploying an application can be hard. The new code must be pulled in, permissions must be set, migrations must be run, etc. In some cases the whole website goes down while deploying a new version. And the more that must be done manually, the more can, and eventually will, go wrong.
July 5th, 2017
Laravel, Quick Tip

Hide Laravel from Wappalyzer

For the past few years, everyone seems to be using Laravel for almost everything. That is completely understandable, as it provides some great features. The downside is that when there is a security bug, it can be easily exploited.
June 21st, 2017
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