Big Announcements from Laracon EU 2025 (and my opinion) laraveldaily.com

BIG recap of what has been announced (14 min read). FOUR important talks presented new projects. In this post, I will summarize those videos and share my opinion.

Laravel API: Custom 404 Error Message (Laravel 11 Version) www.youtube.com

If you want to have the same default API "Not Found" message, there's a new place in Laravel 11 where to define it.

14 Laravel Tips in 12 Minutes: January 2025 www.youtube.com

A usual "rapid fire" list of Laravel tips for the last month.

Global Search in E-Shop: Laravel Scout and Alpine.js www.youtube.com

A demo project of an e-shop product search showing categories and products almost instantly.

Laravel: Route Model Binding with Conditions - Not Possible? www.youtube.com

If you need to add some where condition to the Route Model Binding, it's not that easy. Let's explore the alternatives.

Your Dev Portfolio: What Should Be Inside? www.youtube.com

Let me share my opinion on your public portfolio, to land job positions.

The State of PHP 2024 laravel-news.com

To uncover deeper insights and trends shaping the ecosystem, we’ve turned to our in-house expert, Brent Roose, Developer Advocate for PHP, who will guide us through the results of the State of Developer Ecosystem Survey 2024.

I built a GUI in the terminal (with PHP) www.youtube.com

Video by Aaron Francis. Solo for Laravel is a package to run multiple commands at once, to aid in local development.

Inertia Forms: Form Components + Form Builder + a new useForm()! www.youtube.com

Kicking off 2025 with something fresh: Inertia Forms!

I built a way to write PHP alongside your frontend www.youtube.com

Video by Aaron Francis. Introducing Fusion: Seamlessly combine React and Vue with Laravel.

Laravel Backup Server v4 Released as Open Source laravel-news.com

Spatie has released their Laravel Backup Server package as an open-source Laravel package and released v4.0.0. This package was previously a paid offering until Spatie decided to release the latest version as open source.

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Streamlining String Manipulation with Laravel's string() Method laravel-news.com

Laravel's request->string() method transforms input into Stringable instances, providing fluent string manipulation capabilities through method chaining.

Demystifying Laravel's Higher Order Messaging phpmemo.com

I was browsing some Laravel project codebases when I came across code that looked like this: $participants = collect([...

Request Handling with PHP Enums in Laravel laravel-news.com

Laravel enhances its request handling capabilities with direct enum support, enabling type-safe processing of enumerated values from incoming requests. This feature simplifies input validation and ensures data consistency when working with predefined sets of values.

Supercharging Rate Limiting with Cloudflare james.brooks.page

Recently on Laravel Forge, we’ve been seeing an increase in the number of malicious, unauthenticated, or throttled requests hitting various API endpoints. Thanks to our internal testing of Laravel Nightwatch, we’ve been able to detect and handle these quickly.

Humanize String, Number, and Date Values into Readable Formats laravel-news.com

The php-humanizer package by Norbert Orzechowicz humanizes readable values such as numbers, strings, dates, and more.

Handling Missing Request Data in Laravel laravel-news.com

Laravel provides elegant methods for managing absent request data through missing() and whenMissing(). These methods simplify the process of handling optional fields and setting default values, making your code more expressive and maintainable.

How to document multiple APIs in Laravel with Scramble laravel-news.com

With Scramble, you can create separate documentation for each API.

Using Static Analysis in Laravel: A Guide to Starting with PHPStan in Your Project labrodev.substack.com

It's always beneficial to explore ways to improve code, particularly in maintaining consistent formatting and readability, especially in larger projects. That's why it's crucial to consider using static analysis in your project if you haven't already.

The leader of my development team insists on using foreach to iterate the query result taken from ->get() instead of Laravel's collections functions simply because it's easier to understand. Is this common or unusual? www.reddit.com

Since my team has always been using foreach and if statements throughout these years, I just recently learned Laravel's collections functions such as map(), filter(), etc. for usage of query results. I'm struggling to understand my leader's reasoning in using foreach and if statements. It's like using your general knife to cut cheese when there's a cheese knife available.