GitLab CI and YAML booleans→
GitLab's opinion of what constitutes valid YAML differs from the official spec. Booleans, in particular, are problematic.
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Conditional validation rules in Laravel→
How to conditionally apply Laravel validation rules, even when you don’t have access to a validator instance.
How to change the URL slug of a Laravel Nova resource→
When you define a resource, Laravel Nova makes an educated guess regarding its URL slug. You can override the default slug by implementing the uriKey method. Here's how.
Randomise your tests→
A quick and easy way to ensure your tests don't have any unwanted side-effects is to randomise the order in which they run. PHPUnit makes this easy.
Understanding Laravel’s Macroable trait→
Laravel makes heavy use of the Macroable trait throughout its codebase, but the official docs only mention it in passing. Let's dig in.
Laravel route collection binding→
Route model binding is a very useful Laravel feature. But what happens if you have an endpoint which needs to support multiple, comma-delimited IDs? Route collection binding to the rescue.
A nicer way of overriding Eloquent global scopes→
The standard method for removing a global scope from an Eloquent model is a little clunky. We can do better.
Laravel’s mysteriously macroable paginators→
I recently found myself with the need to add a custom method to the LengthAwarePaginator class. Not a problem, I thought, I'll write a quick macro. A fine solution, but for the fact the LengthAwarePaginator isn't "macroable". Or so it would seem at first glance.
Eager loading Eloquent properties→
A simple, performant solution for eager-loading Eloquent relationships, when you're only interested in one or two specific properties on the related model.
Cleaner code with Eloquent events→
Eloquent makes it easy to respond to certain key points in the lifecycle of a model instance, by exposing events such as creating, updating, and deleted.