Eloquent ORM, route model binding, and repositories

As you progress as a developer, you learn more and more ways to achieve a given outcome. The more knowledge you have, however, the more difficult it can be to determine when to use any given

Filtering models with Eloquent in Laravel

The Eloquent ORM that ships with Laravel is a very powerful tool; it simplifies many tasks - from relationships between models to eager loading. In this post, I talk about query scopes and ho

Simple environment switching in Laravel 5

When Laravel 5 was released, the app configuration structure was changed so that the environment-specific configuration files were dropped. Some people desire the ability to 'switch' between