As I was faced with choosing the best PHP framework for a project in the spring 2012 I found Laravel framework to be easiest to pick up. It allowed me to build my first application in a structured way with clean and understandable code. Fast forward to this day, I have built plenty of applications with […]
This tutorial is one more addition to my “Building a shop with Laravel” tutorial series. In the previous tutorial, I showed you how to implement very nice “Smart search” feature using Selectize.js plugin to make user experience a bit nicer: https://maxoffsky.com/code-blog/laravel-shop-tutorial-3-implementing-smart-search/ When I develop web applications, I care a lot about the user experience and […]
This tutorial is one more addition to my “Building a shop with Laravel” tutorial series. In this tutorial I will share what I have learned while building a “Smart Search” feature into a big project. What is smart search? Take a look at the GIF below to see what I mean: The real, working demo […]
A few days ago I posted a detailed tutorial on how to use Laravel’s polymorphic relationships to simplify management of SEO data in Laravel web applications. You can read that tutorial here: https://maxoffsky.com/code-blog/using-polymorphic-relationships-of-laravel-for-seo-content/ I have also promised that I will release a small admin panel to manage that kind of data and today I will do […]
This tutorial applies to any applications that are built with Laravel framework and that need some sort of SEO and SEO management tool. You can also apply it as an extension to my previous tutorial on building a shop (where we built a review system). SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is an important aspect of any […]
I am happy to announce the immediate release of a new project that my friend (@stidges) and I have been working on for the past 3 weeks: http://www.laravel-tricks.com UPDATE: You can also get the source of the website here: maxoffsky.com/maxoffsky-blog/announcing-release-laravel-tricks-com-source/ Laravel-tricks.com is a website that features tips and tricks on using Laravel framework that developers […]
The first tutorial in “Building a shop” series is going to be a practical example of implementing a rating/review system into an application. Review systems or rating systems are very common in all kinds of e-Commerce projects, social networks, anything that requires user’s input to be some sort of concrete value on some scale. DEMO: http://demos.maxoffsky.com/shop-reviews Source […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]