What is Laravel? Why should any PHP developer care about it? A few days ago I had to present at a local PHP Meetup in Fullerton, CA. I spoke about Laravel framework and why it will be the future of PHP frameworks (and that future is already here). Below I have that presentation from my […]
I created this presentation for a Laravel Meetup that I organized. It explains what’s changed in Laravel v4 over v3 and brings up some nice examples of using new features. Check it out : And the transcript of it is below: laravel 4 What’s old?What’s new? by Maks Old: Clean and Eloquent syntax. Separation of […]
This is a super quick post. I want to show you an advanced blog made in Laravel version 4, here are the features Twitter Bootstrap 2.3.0 Custom Error Pages 403 for forbidden page accesses 404 for not found pages 500 for internal server errors Confide for Authentication and Authorization Back-end User and Role management Manage blog […]
I’ve noticed that some people are having trouble using Backbone fetch function to pass parameters to their PHP applications. In this very short post I’m going to fix that and demonstrate how to pass a query parameter during backbone fetch call so that the PHP application (running Laravel) will return specific data. For example the […]
A couple days ago I printed Yoda on my 3d Printer – http://instagram.com/p/U2HR__StrH/ Yesterday I put him on a remote controlled micro robotic platform, watch video of it in action here: And today I made him speak. The basics setup is this : Arduino Uno. MicroSD card reader (4$ at DX.com ). MicroSD card […]
Login with AJAX – including PhoneGap apps Oh God. For a few weeks I was researching what is a good way to login to a Laravel web app via AJAX and it turns out I was over-preparing for some problems that after all weren't even there. Example – you made a web app in Laravel […]
For those of you who haven’t been following this blog – I am posting a short series of tutorials that guide you through creating a simple API in Laravel 3 and integrating it with a client application – in this case TodoMVC BackboneJS application (see screenshot below). Part 1 of the tutorial is here : https://maxoffsky.com/code-blog/building-restful-api-in-laravel-start-here/ […]
In the previous tutorial (https://maxoffsky.com/code-blog/building-restful-api-in-laravel-start-here/) I shared the basics of RESTful controller structure and a route that we will need to build a RESTful web application. As promised, in this tutorial we will explore how exactly to make our API work with our data. We will explore a simple Todo list application as and example. […]
Ever wanted to open a folder in Sublime Text 2 from right click menu in Finder? Here is how to do that with Automator (Mac OS): Launch Automator Choose Service, Choos Files or Folders in the dropdown menu “Service Receives” Search for Open Finder Items in the search bar and drag it into the workflow […]
Over the past few weeks I’ve been very busy learning basics of Backbone – an MV* framework for Javascript because it simplifies creation of one page applications (great for mobile devices!). In just two weeks I built a working mobile app for the company I’m working for, and soon it will be released to Android […]
Hi friends! As you might know, I really like Laravel PHP framework and I love telling others about it. I built http://bootsnipp.com from scratch in 4 days with Laravel and want others to get to know such great framework. I have finished creating my Laravel course on Udemy and I decided to give every one of my […]
Check out this Context Menu plugin : https://github.com/sydcanem/bootstrap-contextmenu It provides a right click (context) menu with Bootstrap styles and dropdown, very useful for web apps Here is a working demo: I have added this to a growing Bootstrap Resources collection at http://bootsnipp.com/resources Enjoy!