Amitav Roy

My love for Laravel has been since the days of Laravel 3. Looking at the great documentation, intuitive API which is so developer friendly and many other reasons, I was convinced that this is the framework of choice for me to work on any project when the stack is primarily PHP. By now it has grown a lot. A lot of new features are being added to the framework. And every new version would be announced at conferences and it's creator Taylor Otwell and so many other great developers would speak about the framework, new patterns and ways of development etc.

I have been practising test-driven development (TDD) for quite some time on projects where I was working alone or my own side projects. But when it comes to working with a team, you come up with new and very interesting challenges. I wanted to ensure that everyone runs PHPUnit before they commit code and yes there are chances even I can forget to check. Human errors are possible, right?

If you have ever used Laravel's auth setup even once, you know how much time it can potentially save when we just want to get going. But, I am not going to talk about what comes with the auth scaffolding. I am here to talk about why it is ok to modify the Login and Register controller which comes by default and how we are going to customise them to our unique requirements.

Shrivardhan is a small city about 180 km from Navi Mumbai and it is a perfect place for a small trip. If you have a couple of days in hand then a trip to this place would be a perfect holiday destination. The road condition is generally good and so it's a perfect getaway for those who want to get out of the fast life and relax near a beach.

Working with IDEs can for sure speed up our development, but using Text Editors for sure has some advantages which help us in long-term. They not only help us understand the code much better but also helps us develop some good habits of coding.

In this part we will set up the basic REST API points so that our Angular application can talk to these endpoints and fetch the data required. Also in this tutorial I will show you how we can use the Laravel query scope and how it can be very useful when we are building a query with the same set of conditions.

During development, dummy data is very important. I have seen that dummy data really helps speed up the development. Those coming from Drupal would know how good the Devel generate module use to work. So, in Laravel we can use the Faker library to create dummy data.

Laravel has always been a treat to work with and the new version not only brings a lot of added features but also gives a much structured folder structure which will help organize the code even much better. One of the great features of Laravel 4 for me is events which I have shown in my tutorial Laravel 4 how to use Events. But in Laravel 5 the code is structured even better. In this tutorial, I will show you how we can use Events in Laravel 5 and how we can customize the default mode’s save function to fire an event on every save.

Any web application which deals with a lot of images or a lot of file downloads will for sure want to offload their space requirements for images and files from the mail server to buckets like what Amazon provides us. Some may even choose Amazon cloudfront (CDN) for storing images if their traffic is from different geo locations. So, in this tutorial I will show how we can use the Amazon SDK and the Laravel wrapper to store images on Amazon S3 inside a bucket.

One of the most powerful aspects of Drupal is the concept of hooks. We can modify core features of Drupal entities without hacking the core. It’s a great way to separate the concerns of code which in long-term helps us write maintainable code. Laravel's event is one such thing which I can compare with hooks. In this tutorial, I will show you how to use a Laravel event like user login and perform some activity using a complete different class.