Valet 3.0: Multiple/Parallel PHP Version Support

For my local PHP Development needs I use Laravel Valet. It’s easy to set up, provides HTTPS, and just works. The only downside of using it, is the fact that the selected PHP version is system-wide: switching PHP versions — using valet use php@7.4 for example — affects all sites. With the 3.0 release of …

Laravel Zero – Micro-framework for console applications

Laravel Zero is a lightweight and modular micro-framework for developing fast and powerful console applications. Built on top of the Laravel components. Think of it as a stripped down Laravel, without the public folder. Recently used it to create a Command that runs in Docker Container upon boot and then exits. Instead of using Laravel’s …

Ray – Dump Debugging Evolved

The folks over at Spatie have released a new tool called Ray that helps you with debugging. Ray is a beautiful, lightweight desktop app that helps you debug your app. After installing one of the libraries to send information to Ray, you can use the ray() function to quickly dump stuff. Any variable(s) that you …

The 6 Stages of Spam Protection

The journey of the folks over at Laracasts on how they stopped spam (for now) on their forums. Keyword Censoring Email Confirmation Language Detection Throttling Honeypots reCAPTCHA Comes with (Laravel) code snippets to go along with that. The 6 Stages of Spam Protection → Yes, that dreaded reCAPTCHA. Hate it all you want, but it …

Laravel 6 From Scratch Free Video Course

In this series, step by step, I’ll show you how to build web applications with Laravel 6. We’ll start with the basics and incrementally dig deeper and deeper, as we review real-life examples. Once complete, you should have all the tools you need. Let’s get to work! All 68 videos in this course, totalling 8:59:43 …

Laraguard – Two Factor Authentication via TOTP for all your Users out-of-the-box.

Two Factor Authentication via TOTP for all your Users out-of-the-box. This packages adds a Contract to detect in a per-user basis if it should use Two Factor Authentication. It includes a custom view and a listener to handle the Two Factor authentication itself during login attempts. It is not invasive, but you can go full …

Run your own newsletter engine with Mailcoach

Congrats to the Spatie team with the release of Mailcoach: Mailcoach is a self-hosted email list manager. It integrates with services like Amazon SES, Mailgun or Sendgrid to send out mailings affordably. Stand-alone, or integrated in a Laravel project, it’s perfect for bloggers, artisans and entrepreneurs. Now with an introductory price of $99 (instead of …

Laravel Vapor – Serverless Deployment Platform for Laravel

If you’re building Laravel-based app and don’t want to burdened with the infrastructure side of things, check out Laravel Vapor which was announced last summer. Laravel Vapor is a serverless deployment platform for Laravel, powered by AWS. Launch your Laravel infrastructure on Vapor and fall in love with the scalable simplicity of serverless. Next to …

Unsafe SQL functions in Laravel

Recently the folks from Spatie released a security update for their laravel-query-builder package. Turns out it was vulnerable to SQL Injection. At the core of the vulnerability is the fact that Laravel offers a shorthand for querying only certain fields of JSON data, but that these do not get escaped when converted to a json_extract …