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Five Useful Laravel Blade Directives
By CodeBrisk 23 Jun 2018
We’re going to look at five Laravel Blade directives you can use to simplify your templates, and learn about some convenient directives that make solving specific problems a cinch! If you’re new to the framework, these tips will help you discover the excellent features of Blade, Laravel’s......
Sending a daily email with Laravel and Campaign Monitor
By CodeBrisk 23 Apr 2018
Here on Laravel News, we offer multiple ways of staying up to date with new content. Everything from auto-sharing to all the social media channels, a read-only Telegram chann......
Laravel 5.6 is Live, Here’s What’s New!
By CodeBrisk 23 Feb 2018
The Laravel 5.6 release is now officially available as the next major version of the Laravel framework! This release has many new features, and we’ve highlighted the more prominent features here. For a full list of all changes visit the Read More
Text-To-Speech calls with Laravel and Nexmo
By CodeBrisk 23 Feb 2018
This is the second part of a series of tutorials by Michael Heap, covering how to build a multi-channel help desk system with Laravel.
In our last post, we covered sending and receiving SMS Lara......
Convert Your SQL to Laravel Builder with Orator
By CodeBrisk 23 Dec 2018
You can convert raw and legacy SQL queries into a Laravel database query builder version with Orator, an online tool by Maurice Calhoun. This generator could also be an excellent tool for someone learning Laravel, as it can help them translate SQL queries into query builder objects, as learning a new ORM c......
Optimize Your Application with Laravel Page Speed
By CodeBrisk 23 Oct 2018
Laravel Page Speed is a package by Renato Marinho for optimizing your Laravel site automatically. Page Speed is inspired by Google’s mod_pagespeed, and providing the following options:
inline_cssinlines small external CSS fileselide_attributesremoves un......
Laravel 5.4: Specified key was too long error
By CodeBrisk 23 Oct 2018
Laravel 5.4 made a change to the default database character set, and it’s now utf8mb4 which includes support for storing emojis. This only affects new applications and as long as you are running MySQL v5.7.7 and higher you do not need to do anything.
For those running MariaDB or ol......
Bootstrap Laravel 5 Packages with Bootpack
By CodeBrisk 23 Oct 2018
Bootpack is a Laravel 5 package bootstraper by Erik Campobadal that helps you create new Laravel 5 packages with the following features:
- Creates composer.json for a laravel package
- Create a basic well-structured package directory
- Adds the local autoloader to the project composer.......
Testing Laravel Middleware with HTTP Tests
By CodeBrisk 23 Oct 2018
In this post, I’d like to demonstrate a practical example of testing a middleware using HTTP tests. Testing at the HTTP level can make your tests more resilient to change and more readable.
On a recent episode of Full Stack Radio (#72) with Adam Wa......
Vultr is Now Supported on Forge
By CodeBrisk 23 Oct 2018
Laravel Forge announced last week that Vultr now has first-party support. You can now create Vultr as a service provider by entering your API credentials in the Forge Server Providers ......