Hardcoding
So I’ve been trying to switch servers at work and let’s just say it’s been a freakin’ nightmare. Our servers are dated and to start off fresh, I suggested we setup new ones and move the app over. Simple right?…
Tag laravel
Lighthouse GraphQL PHPUnit Test
I’ll admit. I’m out of practice with unit testing. We don’t really have a good setup db/seeding wise and making a crap ton of factories just took up a lot of time. Not to mention we use GraphQL which I…
Foreign Key events & Laravel Soft Deletes
Never really noticed how great foreign keys were until I started a job that just didn’t have any in the database. That also being said, foreign key events are even nicer to implement and takes a LOT of pressure off…
Laravel mix image processing
Before Laravel 5(ish), people used gulp to minimize/refresh images. It just came with it and was easy to implement. Now with Laravel Mix, you have to install a few npm packages in order to have the image compression that gulp…
Laravel 5.6 Routes with env variables
I’m working on a Laravel 5.6 project that has a dynamic route based on an environment variable that I’m also setting in the config (for easy access and to avoid the dot env issue). The Laravel documentation was leading me…
Orderby if null
I'm posting about this today because I feel like this is a very not well known little mySql knowledge and it really saved me. I've got an employee table that has a first name, last name AND nickname.
Laravel 5.2 & Models with non-int keys
Yes, yes I’ve been neglecting my own site. Yes, I’ve been busy. Yes, I’ve still been training. Yes, Roxie keeps me busy and she is still alive and very well and energetic as hell. …she’s also still SUPER adorable. In fact,…
Laravel’s Eloquent and firstOrNew
Hey everyone! This is yet another web dev post and this is gonna be quick and dirty.. It’s regarding Laravel and the Eloquent’s firstOrNew. firstOrNew is like firstOrCreate, but instead of creating an instance in the database, it just retrieves…
Laravel + DB Transactions + Multiple Connections
At work, I've got two applications that has multiple database connections for security reasons. I've been running into a weird issue with Laravel and transactions and rollbacks not firing on the secondary database. I thought it was something I did, but it's actually Laravel.