Laravel 5.5 is due to be released in July 2017, in every new release of the frameworks there's always some cool new features to investigate, so let's take a look at what's new. Laravel Package Auto Di...
In this tutorial, we're going to learn how you can create a caching layer in your Laravel application to help speed up your website and reduce the number of requests to your database. We're also going...
If you do Laravel development then you most likely are using Homestead for your local development environment, if you're not using Homestead then I can't recommend it enough to get you started. Homest...
When you're testing your Laravel application particularly with functional tests there will be times where you need to test database interactions, such as if you testing the form posting you'll need to...
In this tutorial we're going to look at how you can use Envoy to make it very easy to deploy your Laravel applications. Envoy provides a nice blade style syntax way of running commands on your remote...
When you're using Laravel migrations have you ever come across the error 1071 Specified key was too long; max key length is 767 bytes. There was a change in Laravel 5.4 that changed the default databa...
We all have our favourite database GUIs, some work with PHPMyAdmin others use tools such as MySQL Workbench. I tend to use MySQL Workbench more than any database GUI tool. MySQL Workbench is a cross-p...
Laravel is one of the most popular, if not THE most popular PHP framework and after using Laravel and comparing it with the likes of Zend and Symfony it's easy to see why, over the courses of multiple...
In Lumen you can create a database connection by filling out the default information you can find in .env file. But if you need multiple database connections you can do so by adding a new database con...