Blogs tagged with Laravel
A new website design
If you have visited my site before, you may have noticed that it has had a fresh coat of paint. I'm very happy with how things turned out!
Why
I could type a whole lot of words, but an image might say enough. This was...
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2021 year in review
Today is January 1st of 2022 and as 2021 is now officially over, it's time to - like last year - look back a bit and review the past year.
Second year of working for...
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2020 year in review
Most posts on this website are quite technical in nature. This post will be a little different, no code snippets this time. This will be my first year in review (or recap) post. A lot has happened in 2020 and I would like to look back...
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How to make WordPress-like custom fields for Laravel models
Have you ever run into a situation where you want to be able to dynamically store data along with your Laravel Model, without having to add an (excessive) amount of columns to your database table? I sure have.
I think there a...
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Handling media in Laravel with Laravel Simple Media
About two weeks ago, I published an open-source Laravel package on Github called Laravel Simple Media.
The package enables you to upload media files, optionally...
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Using Browsershot for PDF generation
Yesterday I was trying to tweak the invoice design for Addrow, a SaaS application I made with Laravel. I have basically two templates for the invoice, one for web display...
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How to validate object ownership in Laravel
There are several ways in which you can determine if a user owns an object in your Laravel application. This post will give you a couple of examples how you could implement this check within your form request validations.
An...
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A simple way of implementing user bookmarks in Laravel
For a recent project, I needed a way for users to bookmark posts. Other then posts, I imagine the application to have other objects in the future too. So, with this in mind, I decided to build a solution which can handle other objects...
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Using ngrok with Laravel
If you like to temporarily expose your local development environment, you can do this with ngrok.
If you use Laravel Valet for development, you already have ngrok...
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