The following content is the third chapter of my new e-book titled “Laravel: my first framework“. This writing is copyright by Maksim Surguy. Unauthorized copy and distribution of this material is prohibited. Chapter 3. Routing This chapter covers Basics of routing Passing parameters to routes Route filters Grouped and named routes Redirects When you come to […]
The following post is my personal review of a new e-Book by PHP Town Hall co-host Ben Edmunds being released today on Leanpub. I’ve had the honor of getting a copy of the book before it is officially released and have read it all in order to have a more or less complete review. Short description […]
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 […]
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.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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/ […]