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.
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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 […]
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 […]
Over last week I have been building a few of my own products and one of them is called Filegr.am. It is a super simple and quick file sharing application but the key difference between other services is that files expire at a certain period of time instead of being stored forever. Some of the […]
I decided to test out some new composer packages using Laravel 4. The first package that I wanted to test was Intervention Image Class located at http://intervention.olivervogel.net/image. It allows you to operate with images and do many common operations on images such as : Resizing Cropping Embedding other images Writing text Putting shapes and objects on […]
In this post I will try to explain what is a Cron job and show how to use them in Laravel v3 and v4. Let’s start with the basics. A Cron job is basically a command that is scheduled to execute at some period of time or at a very specific time. What command? Well, […]
This is a super short post about uploading files with Laravel 4. I have struggled a few minutes trying to convert this from L3 format to L4 and to save somebody time decided to post this short PHP script. This script can work with multi file uploads that I have documented in my previous blog […]
For one of my projects I needed to get an ID of the previous and next record in the DB. Let’s say we are logged in as an admin and we are on this user’s page and we want to see next/previous user’s id. The following Eloquent code makes it easy to do that: // […]
Update! I have posted a tutorial for Laravel 4 as well, please check it after reading this post: maxoffsky.com/code-blog/integrating-stripe-into-laravel-4-application/ Hello there, Laravel developers! In this blog post I’ll describe in detail how you can integrate payment system into your Laravel 3 applications and charge people some real money! Specifically I’ll describe how to use Stripe. […]
In one of the applications I’m building I needed to get user’s location (city) from their IP address. One of the ways to go about this is to use some webservice that will convert the IP into geographical coordinates and then pass the result into your application. Another way is to use geoip extension for […]
Laravel fans! I am releasing a few wallpapers dedicated to Laravel, if you like them please share this post with others who might want to prettify their screen with these. Also if you have any suggestions on them, please let me know! You can download it in different resolutions below: 1280×800 2560×1600 1600×1200 1280×1024 1280×800 […]
Update! To adapt this code to Laravel 4 please see my newer post here: https://maxoffsky.com/code-blog/uploading-files-in-laravel-4/ In this short blog post I will share with you how I made queued multiple file upload possible with Laravel and a nice jQuery plugin called Dropzone.js. I needed to give the user the ability to upload multiple images at once […]