Dear readers of my blog! I have a lot of exciting announcements that I will make next week right here on this blog. If you don’t know me, I post a lot about Laravel on this blog and I am actively participating in Laravel community by recommending Laravel to other PHP developers, by answering questions […]
What is Laravel framework good for? You might have asked this question or was wondering what people build with this PHP framework. Well, wonder no more! I have taken a day of a weekend and created a website that showcases projects that are built with laravel framework, it is now live at http://builtwithlaravel.com The purpose […]
This post is one of the lessons that will be published in my new Udemy course. I decided to have a few lessons available for free for anyone to act as a reference. If you have used Laravel framework before you might know that Laravel version 3 was a very decent release of Laravel. It […]
A word on Bootsnipp’s history Today marks one year and one month since Bootsnipp has been online. Over this time millions of people have visited it to get free Bootstrap snippets and resources. According to Alexa ratings, Bootsnipp is in top 20,000 websites around the world by popularity. Visitors come from all over the world. People […]
Not so long ago I have posted a very detailed tutorial on how to use “Login with Facebook” with your Laravel application. After I published that tutorial I have found an extraordinary oAuth2 package that makes it a lot more consistent and easy to integrate social providers into any Composer-based PHP application. Since then I have […]
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 […]