Laravel 5.6 Dynamic Rate Limiting
Starting from Laravel 5.6, you can use dynamic rate limiting to specify maximum number of requests based on the attribute of the authenticated User model. When specifying a rate limit on a group of routes in previous versions of Laravel, you had...
Laravel 5.6 adds collision package for command line error reporting
Collision created and maintained by nunomaduro is an error handler package for PHP command line applications. Starting with Laravel 5.6, applications will contain a dev composer dependency for Collision package. This package gives you beautiful error reporting when interacting with your Laravel...
Laravel 5.6 Removed Artisan Optimize Command
php artisan optimize command was deprecated in Laravel 5.5. Now, after the official release of Laravel 5.6, it is removed. In Laravel 5.5, use of optimize command in the post-install-cmd and post-update-cmd scripts was no longer available. Now with Laravel 5.6, you cannot use...
Laravel 5.6 Two new blade directives
Laravel 5.6 will include two new blade directives. One for adding cross-site request forgery (CSRF) token in your forms and the other for defining form method. In Laravel 5.5 and below, you do the following at the top of the forms...
Laravel 5.6 will support Argon2i Password Hashing Algorithm
In 2013, Password Hashing Competition was announced to select one or more password hash functions that can be recognized as a recommended standard. On July, 2015 Argon2 was selected as the winner of Password Hashing Competition. This hashing algorithm was designed...
Installing Laravel Homestead on Windows step by step procedure with explanation
Laravel Homestead is an official, pre-packaged Vagrant box that allows you to develop amazing applications without installing prerequisites such as PHP, a web server and other development software on your machine. Homestead runs on Windows, Mac or Linux environments. It...
Laravel 5.4: Specified key was too long error
Laravel 5.4 and higher uses utf8mb4 character set by default, which also includes support for storing emojis. It only affects new applications and as long as you are running MySQL higher than 5.7.7 release or MariaDB higher than 10.2.2 release. If you are...
Learn to Use Model Factories in Laravel
Laravel has a feature called model factories that allows you to build fake data for your models. It is very useful for testing and seeding fake data into your database to see your code in action before any real user...
Top 10 packages for extending Laravel
Laravel is a free and open source PHP framework for creating web applications. At the time of writing, it is undoubtedly the most popular PHP framework. It offers a lot of features such as authentication, routing, model-view-controller architecture, eloquent and...
Tap in Laravel
In this tutorial, we will talk about tap in Laravel. We will discuss tap helper function and tap method on collections in detail. Tap Helper Function Old implementation Laravel comes up with a tap function. It is a pretty odd...