Objects In PHP: Today, we’re going to explore the wonderful world of objects and Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) in PHP. Buckle up, because we’re about to break down some key concepts in a way that’s easy to understand and implement in…
Let’s talk about the building blocks of object-oriented programming (OOP) in PHP: Class. Class in PHP is like blueprint – they define the structure and behavior of the things (objects) that make up your program. Think of it this way:…
Moving to Laravel 11 and observing a more simplified application architecture? Those days of finding a collection of route files in the routes directory by default are long gone. Today, we’ll look into the process of defining custom route files…
Class Blade Directive: Hello Laravel developers! We’ve all experienced the frustration of carefully putting together class names in Blade templates using double curly braces. It can be quite challenging to keep things organized and manageable, particularly when dealing with complicated…
Saving a model and its relations simultaneously: We’ve all experienced it, carefully creating a model, configuring its properties, and then… that awful process of iterating through related models, saving each one separately. It gets the job done, but it definitely…
We’ve all been there: trying updating a counter variable, then saving the entire model instance. It works, sure, but it feels…clunky, right? Especially when Laravel offers a more elegant solution: Eloquent’s increment and decrement methods! In this post, we’ll explore…
Have you ever run into a situation where you need to create a displayable username from email address in Laravel? Maybe during registration or for profile displays? I know I have! Extracting a username from an email can be handy,…
Calculate Age in Laravel: When making Laravel apps, it’s common to work with dates and times. It is normal to need to figure out a user’s age from their birthdate. This is where Laravel’s Carbon library really shines, because it…
PHP Formatting Currency in Your App: When it comes to formatting currency with commas, it’s important to make sure that the representation is accurate. We often face difficulties when it comes to storing and managing financial data within applications. Typical…
Laravel 11 has been released, requiring PHP v8.2 at minimum. It brings significant enhancements, including a new Laravel Reverb package for real-time capabilities, a streamlined directory structure, per-second rate limiting, health routing, encryption key rotation, queue testing improvements, Resend mail…