Autoloading Organized Routes in Laravel
This is an excellent tip from Jesse O’Brien about breaking up your Laravel routes file. I’ve actually done something similar for a while now, and kind of forgot that Laravel doesn’t come preconfigured...
View ArticleThe most popular Composer / Packagist PHP packages
There’s no doubt that Composer is the way of the future for PHP, but Packagist (the package archiver) is woefully lacking in useful information. Well actually, the information is there, there just...
View ArticleEvents that get fired in Laravel #laravel
This is really just a reference post for later. I needed to hook into eloquent and noticed it was firing an event. So I was able to add a listener fairly easily. So I went through the source and...
View ArticleSome Packagist API “hacks”
In a previous post, I was trying to parse out the most popular Composer packages, and wasn’t able to find a way to get the information through any kind of API. I ended up doing a simple scrape, but...
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Laracon: Saturday. 1st Laravel Conference in (others’) Pictures.
Morning in Washington DC A little overcast in DC this morning. twitter.com/ryanwachtl/sta… — Ryan Wachtl φ (@ryanwachtl) February 23, 2013 Waiting patiently to go down to the theater for the first talk...
View ArticleAdding foreign keys to Laravel’s migrations and schema builder
At work, there was an issue with using Laravel’s migrations and the scheme builder with tables that needed foreign keys. It’s not in the official documents, but after some source code searching, there...
View ArticleLaravel Application Development Cookbook
Hey look! I wrote a book about Laravel: http://bit.ly/laravelcookbook Some of the fun and exciting things you’ll learn… Setting Up and Installing Laravel Using Forms and Gathering Input Authenticating...
View ArticleMy Journey writing a Laravel Book
It all started 2 years ago, when I found this post on Forrst by Taylor Otwell announcing the release of Laravel 2. I downloaded and tried it. As I was using Codeigniter at the time, I found it quite...
View ArticleHow I use Bower and Grunt with my Laravel projects
I just ran across an excellent article on how to use Grunt with Laravel, and I thought I’d share my process. First things first… install node, npm, bower, grunt, and all that. Google it if this is new...
View ArticleLaravel routes – Generating a CSV
We’re currently building out an API at Basanty, and I was looking for a way to generate a simple Excel/CSV file. Using the `artisan routes` command, you can print out a nice table in the console, or...
View ArticleGuiltless Code #1 – There’s no “right” way
If you’re just getting started with PHP development, or even looking to increase your skills, a great place to start is PHP: The Right Way. However, be warned that there is not a “right” way to code...
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From 0 to Complete App In 48 Hours
I’ve been unemployed for the past month, so in that time I’ve decided to work on various side projects and potential businesses. A lot of that time was spent building things with various languages...
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Microsoft Teams / Graph API: Create a Teams app
In my role at Mio, I’ve had the opportunity to work fairly extensively with Microsoft Teams and the Microsoft Graph API. One thing I noticed is that their documentation is extensive, but can be...
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Microsoft Teams / Graph API: oAuth and PHP
In the previous post, we created a Microsoft Teams app and bot so we can use the Graph API. We should now have a “client id” and a “client secret” that is needed to make authentication requests, and...
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Microsoft Teams / Graph API: All about Scopes
So we have our Microsoft Teams app set up, and can successfully authenticate to get a user’s information. But we’ll probably want to more with Teams. To do that, we’ll need to ask for more permissions...
View ArticleUpdating a 10 year old Laravel post
In November of 2012, I had a short blog post about using Laravel (at the time v3) with the Redactor javascript code for wysiwyg textareas. It’s not bad, but could use an update. First, I see “classic”...
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