Achieving Geo-search with Laravel Scout and Algolia

Laravel Scout makes it very easy to setup an external search engine to create consumer-grade search quickly. The package comes with Algolia as a default search engine. I'd like to demonstrate how to make use of the geo-location search feature with Scout.

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What's New in Laravel 5.5

At the time of this writing, Laravel 5.5 is not released yet. It is slated, as the next major release, for release in July 2017. To play around with new features and changes, you need to grab the dev release of Laravel using this Laravel Installer command: Laravel 5.5 will require PHP 7.0+.

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Programming With Yii2: Building a RESTful API

In this Programming With Yii2 series, I'm guiding readers in use of the Yii2 Framework for PHP. You may also be interested in my Introduction to the Yii Framework, which reviews the benefits of Yii and includes an overview of what's new in Yii 2.x.

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Building Your Startup: Running Multiple Domains

This tutorial is part of the Building Your Startup With PHP series on Envato Tuts+. In this series, I'm guiding you through launching a startup from concept to reality using my Meeting Planner app as a real-life example.

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Building Your Startup: Completing Group Scheduling

This tutorial is part of the Building Your Startup With PHP series on Envato Tuts+. In this series, I'm guiding you through launching a startup from concept to reality using my Meeting Planner app as a real-life example.

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What’s New in Laravel 5.4

If you've been following Scotch for a while, you heard a lot about Laravel. Some months ago, Laravel 5.3 was released. It introduced new features like Mailables. Yesterday, the 25th of January, Laravel 5.4 was released.

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Laravel Random Keys with Keygen

When developing applications, it is usually common to see randomness come into play - and as a result, many programming languages have built-in random generation mechanisms. Some common applications include:

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Building Your Startup: Increasing Security

This tutorial is part of the Building Your Startup With PHP series on Envato Tuts+. In this series, I'm guiding you through launching a startup from concept to reality using my Meeting Planner app as a real-life example.

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Deep Dive Into Custom Validation Error Messages In Laravel

One of the amazing thing about the Laravel framework is the way its doesn't get in your way while developing with it, despite the fact that it comes with great features out of the box. For most Laravel applications, the default features are fine.

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Getting Started with SLIM 3, A PHP Microframework

Just like the world of Javascript, in the world of PHP, we have a fairly large amount of frameworks and libraries. We could go on all day listing PHP libraries and still not finish in time for Christmas.

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Programming With Yii2: Automated Testing With Codeception

In this Programming With Yii2 series, I'm guiding readers in use of the Yii2 Framework for PHP. In this tutorial, I'll explore automated testing using Codeception, which is integrated with the Yii2 development framework. Admittedly, my experience writing tests with my code is scarce.

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Laravel Social Authentication with Socialite

Laravel introduced a built in Authentication module in version 5.2. To set this up, you just have to run php artisan make:auth and everything is generated for you, from the views to the controllers and the routes.

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Programming With Yii2: Security

If you're asking, "What's Yii?" check out Introduction to the Yii Framework, which reviews the benefits of Yii and includes an overview of  Yii 2.0. In this Programming With Yii2 series, I'm guiding readers in use of the Yii2 Framework for PHP.

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Handling Laravel Validation Error Messages With Vue.js

In this post, I will be showing you how to handle Laravel validation error messages with Vue.js. Recently, I launched a open source side project I was working on called Open Laravel. Open Laravel allows developers to submit open source projects that were built using the Laravel framework.

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Building Your Startup: Notifying People of Meeting Updates

This tutorial is part of the Building Your Startup With PHP series on Envato Tuts+. In this series, I'm guiding you through launching a startup from concept to reality using my Meeting Planner app as a real-life example.

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Build search functionality with Laravel Scout and Vue.js

Today, we are going to learn how to build a simple search functionality using Laravel Scout and Vue.js. If you don't know what Laravel Scout is, here is what the Laravel documentation says: Laravel Scout provides a simple, driver based solution for adding full-text search to your Eloquent models.

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Easy and Fast Emails with Laravel 5.3 Mailables

Laravel 5.3 has just been released and there are a ton of great new features. One of the major improvements is in how you send mail in your applications. Let's take a look at sending emails. Before Laravel 5.3, sending emails in Laravel looked a lot like this.

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Build a Laravel Application with User Authentication

With over 100,000 downloads per month, Laravel has quickly become one of the most popular web frameworks for PHP. Laravel makes it incredibly simple to build PHP applications by providing a huge number of built-in functionalities that you no longer need to build yourself.

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Build A Support Ticket Application With Laravel – Part 2

This is the second and concluding part of Build A Support Ticket Application With Laravel. In part 1, we setup the application and created our first ticket.

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Build A Support Ticket Application With Laravel – Part 1

Laravel is currently the most starred PHP framework on GitHub and also the most popular PHP framework. Thanks to Taylor Otwell and the Laravel community, many companies and people are building awesome applications with this framework.

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