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Today I take a look at a more extensible and easily reusable version of the nullable fields trait from my previous blog post.
Nullable model attributes still need to have their value explicitly set to null in order to be persisted as null. If you have a few nullable fields across a multiple models, the duplication o
As the release of Envoyer.io was announced last week, I finally spent a bit of time looking into making use of Laravel's Envoy.
A slight change was made to the serve.sh command in February 2015 that caused serve function to incorrectly set the listen port in the nginx config. Here's a brief discussion of the problem a
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
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
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