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About a week ago I have released and open sourced a small experiment, originally created by @hakimel. It is a very cool spinner UI effect that creates a spinner inside of a button when you submit a form or when you need to show progress to the user. You can play with the spinner effect […]
In this short post I will explain how you can get the basic Stripe checkout to work inside of Laravel 4 application. Stripe allows you to take credit card payments painlessly and integration cannot be simpler than this. I have previously posted on Stripe integration into Laravel 3 application, to understand more how Stripe payments […]
Integrating Facebook login into an existing Laravel application could be a difficult task and this post tackles this question in depth giving you the skills you need to integrate one click Facebook login.
For upcoming post (speed comparison and tips for Laravel optimization) I will include Symfony framework as one of the contenders. As I have MAMP server with PHP 5.4.4 and APC 3.1.9, getting Symfony to run wasn’t as straight forward because Symfony requires you to have APC 3.1.13 . After spending hours of trying to find […]
State of the world of PHP frameworks before Laravel 4 In August of 2009 PHP 5.3 was released. It featured introduction of namespaces and anonymous functions called closures amongst other updates. The new features allowed developers write better Object-Oriented PHP applications. Even though it provided many benefits and a way to get to a brighter […]
Last week I have released a new app made with Laravel 4 that I have been working on for almost two weeks. This app is called Mymaplist.com. If you ever wanted to make a list of places on a map and share that map with somebody, this web application is for you. It allows users […]
In this short post I will show you how you can send emails with Laravel 4 using the built in mail function of PHP. I don’t want to use any other email transport at this point and just plain PHP mail function can be utilized for sending emails. It is super easy to send mail […]
I wrote this blog post two days prior to it and scheduled it to be published on the day of our anniversary. Today my gorgeous wife and I are celebrating one year anniversary since we got married in June of 2012. It has been an amazing year for us getting to know each other more […]
Hey Laravel users! Laravel version 4 has been released this Tuesday! I feel you cheering and smiling because this means a big leap forward for PHP developers. There were over 570 users in IRC (hashtag laravel) when it was released and I was one of them! Also, my face is on the top row of […]