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How to Use a Debugger in PHP

How do you debug your PHP code? If you use echo, var_dump, and print_r, there's a better way: use a debugger! Join Mauro Chojrin for an exploration of three world-class debuggers available for PHP.

A Deep Dive Into Laravel Queues

Sometimes you have a task that is too slow for a typical web request, such as sending an email or parsing a CSV file. Laravel Queues are a great fit for that type of work. In this article, Farhan dives deep into the Laravel docs to help us understand all of the various options.

Building a Laravel App with TDD

Test Driven Development (TDD) is a programming style that can help you write well-designed and error-free code. In this tutorial, learn how to build a Laravel app using TDD.

Consuming APIs in Laravel with Guzzle

APIs are everywhere! In this article, you'll learn how to consume external APIs in Laravel using Guzzle.

Containerizing Laravel Applications

Containers are popular and unlock many benefits for Laravel developers, but getting started can be confusing. Learn how to containerize an existing Laravel application and discover the benefits that containers can bring to your development workflow.

Testing PHP Applications

Unit, integration, acceptance, TDD, BDD, oh-em-gee! How should you test, and when? In this article, Mauro Chojrin explains the different testing tools and methodologies available in PHP and how to use them.

Oauth Authentication In Laravel: Social Login With Laravel Socialite

Adding social logins to Laravel is easier than you think. In this article, Funke Faith Olasupo discusses OAuth and shows how to implement social login with Laravel Socialite.

A Comprehensive Guide to Deploying Laravel Applications on AWS Elastic Beanstalk

Elastic Beanstalk makes getting started with Amazon Web Services (AWS) much easier. In this article, Farhan Hasin Chowdhury steps through how to deploy a Laravel app to Elastic Beanstalk.

User permissions and roles in Laravel

You are authorized to access this article! Learn how to secure your Laravel application with simple roles and permissions.

Job Queues and Workers In Laravel Apps

Job queues and workers are an essential part of any web application - allowing slower work to be done in the background without compromising end-user experience. In this post, Darius introduces us to Laravel's job processing capabilities.

Using Docker to Containerize Laravel Apps for Development and Production

Whether you're deploying to production, running tests on CI, or creating a standardized dev environment, containers are handy. In this article, Geshan shows us how to containerize an existing Laravel app with docker.

The ultimate guide to Laravel caching

Caching is an essential tool for making web apps go fast. Laravel caching is easy to implement but difficult to get right. Jump in to learn how to implement caching using Laravel's built-in system, which supports multiple back-ends like Memcached and Redis.

Deploying Laravel Apps to AWS Elastic Beanstalk

AWS Elastic Beanstalk is an easy way to deploy web applications and services. Just upload your code, and it handles the details like server provisioning, load-balancing, scaling, etc. In this article, Samson Omojola shows us how to deploy our Laravel apps to EBS.

A Guide To Error & Uptime Monitoring In Laravel Using Honeybadger

Every application has errors. It's how you respond to them that makes the difference. In this article, Ashley Allen shows us how to use Honeybadger to make sure your Laravel apps are performing as they should.

PHP News Brief (Q3 2021)

People are getting more and more excited as the awaited release date of the new version of PHP (v8.1) approaches. Learn what we know so far. Also learn about the PHP GitHub sponsors launch as well as the RevoltPHP project.

PHP News Brief (Q2 2021)

PHPDay, WebSummerCamp and LaraCon. Symfony CVEs. Laravel 9 release date is pushed back. PHP announces 8.1 release date and deprecates ticks. Laravel celebrates its 10th birthday!

Character Encoding for PHP Developers: Unicode, UTF-8 and ASCII

As developers, our world is made of text, but computers only understand numbers. What gives? A process called character encoding maps numbers to letters. Easy enough, until you realize that we need to encode every character from every language while keeping file sizes small and staying compatible with legacy systems. In this article, José shows us everything we need to know about character encoding for PHP developers - including what to do when it breaks!

Introducing Breadcrumbs for Laravel

Debug your Laravel applications better with structured event logs.

Honeybadger for Laravel Nova

Join Marcel Pociot as he walks through building a Honeybadger custom resource tool for Laravel Nova.

Speeding up WordPress with ModPagespeed on Ubuntu

We recently moved our blog to WordPress. And though WP seems to be the best blogging platform around, it's not exactly fast. Scratch that. It's slow. It's really slow.

You know how we love to hate the Rails asset pipeline? If it did nothing else,...