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Disable Validation Redirect In Laravel

Paul — Sat, 03 Mar 2018 12:12:30 +0000

In a previous tutorial we investigated how to validate requests in Laravel by using form request objects in your controller. You can view this tutorial by using this link How To Validate Requests In Laravel. This form object allows you to place all the validation rules in a single place making it very easy to reuse these in other requests. We also learnt how we can get the validated data out of...

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Organising PHP Exception Classes

Paul — Sat, 24 Feb 2018 08:39:22 +0000

In this tutorial we're going to investigate how we can organise PHP exception classes better in PHP. In PHP you have a lot of options for exception classes each allow you to catch different error states and provide a message back to the user. You can see a list of default exceptions on php.net exceptions. To use PHP exceptions you will normally wrap the code you're executing in a try catch. try {...

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Laravel Resource Test Template

Paul — Thu, 15 Feb 2018 10:21:50 +0000

If you've used Laravel for some time you'll understand the use of the Controller Resource. It's a quick way of defining the functionality of a controller done to the core 7 functions. Index Create Store Show Edit Update Delete I'm a big fan of defining your controllers in this matter as it keeps your controllers simple and defined. Therefore this is a template I try to keep to when creating new...

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DRY Create And Update Laravel Form Requests

Paul — Mon, 12 Feb 2018 09:25:54 +0000

Free Files For February 2018

Paul — Fri, 02 Feb 2018 07:04:41 +0000

Each month the Envato marketplace brings you free premium files, here's the free files for February 2018. Envato is a web marketplace where you can get premium files for different areas of your website. My favourite marketplaces are the script marketplace CodeCanyon and the theme marketplace ThemeForest. Here are the files which you can get for free in February 2018. Super Interactive Maps for...

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Compiling Sass With NPM

Paul — Sun, 14 Jan 2018 19:41:09 +0000

In this tutorial we're going to look at how we can compile SASS using a NPM package. The package that we're going to use to compile the SASS is called node-sass. This is a node package that will bind node.js to LibSass this allows you to compile native scss files into CSS. First we need to install the the node-sass into our project. You can do this by using the following command. npm install...

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Free Files For January 2018

Paul — Mon, 01 Jan 2018 09:03:34 +0000

Happy New Year! Each month the Envato marketplace brings you free premium files, here's the free files for January 2018. Envato is a web marketplace where you can get premium files for different areas of your website. My favourite marketplaces are the script marketplace CodeCanyon and the theme marketplace ThemeForest. Here are the files which you can get for free in January 2018. FlipBook 98...

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Laravel Command To Import Into Algolia

Paul — Sat, 30 Dec 2017 14:07:13 +0000

In the previous article we investigated how you can use Algolia with Laravel to create a realtime search. In this tutorial we learnt about the Laravel Scout command of import that allows you to import an entire Model data into the Algolia index. But there is a problem with this approach as it will just grab all the data for this model and import it into Algolia. As you can see we're doing this...

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Laravel & VueJS Algolia Search

Paul — Wed, 27 Dec 2017 09:53:34 +0000

I wanted to use an Algolia search box on my website and found that they've already done a lot of the hard work for me, by creating the vue-instantsearch package. This allows me to quickly hook into the Algolia API and query the index for the results in real time. The problem I had is the vue instant search library will on page load make a blank search to the index and show the last 20 items in the...

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Quick Tip To Speed Up Your Laravel Tests

Paul — Sun, 24 Dec 2017 07:28:46 +0000

Here is a quick tip that will speed up your Laravel unit tests straight from Taylor Otwell (the creator of Laravel). Update your CreatesApplication trait to include this Hash::setRounds call and then compare the speed difference in running your tests. 🚀 pic.twitter.com/WKGUOgyTCI — Taylor Otwell 🏄‍♂️ (@taylorotwell) December 19, 2017 For this change you just need to edit the...

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