Factor - Short and Expressive Way to Use Laravel's Factories
If you are writing tests in Laravel you have surely used the model factories to make, and perhaps persist, models for your tests. Using the built-i...
Performant Mass "Update or Create" Strategy for Data Imports
Performing a mass "Update or Create" is not a hard task, however, doing it efficiently requires some understanding of how things work &qu...
Querying Against Dates and Timezones with Eloquent
In the previous blog, we saw how to efficiently build and run an SQL query that takes into account the user's timezone. In this blog, we will see h...
SQL - Querying Against Dates Taking into Account Timezones
Retrieving records from a database table that were created between 2 dates is a relatively easy task. Retrieving records between 2 dates taking int...
The Undocumented AuthenticateSession Middleware - Decoded
Using Laravel's Auth system you may have wondered to yourself: "How do I log out my account from every device when I change my password"?...
Laravel Scout - Conditionally Index Model Instances
Laravel Scout is a simple, driver-based solution for adding full-text search to Eloquent models. With a recent update to the master branch, we can...
Mavigator - Marking Your Navigators with Ease
Marking our website's navigators can sometimes be a non-trivial task. Such a simple thing to do can sometimes take a while to implement robustly. B...