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Releasing Bouncer: Roles and Permissions for Laravel apps
A personal post with some musings about my journey through the years - from inception to final release
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Lazy Collections in Laravel
A deep dive into Laravel's Lazy Collections, and how to process enormous amounts of data with very little memory.
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How to rid your database of PHP class names in Eloquent's Polymorphic tables
Using Relation::morphMap() to instruct Eloquent to store more generic values for polymorphic types.
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Getting the current user (or other session data) in a Laravel controller constructor
Session data is not available directly in controller constructors. Let's see how we can work around that.
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Gate and authorization improvements in Laravel 5.3
With Laravel 5.2 we got a nice authorization system right out of the box. In 5.3 this got a lot of improvements and refinements. Let's take a look.
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The new Closure::fromCallable() in PHP 7.1
Let's take a look at a neat little feature coming in PHP 7.1: easily converting any callable into a proper Closure using the new Closure::fromCallable() method.
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Improvements to authentication in Laravel 5.3
Authentication has gotten some nice improvements in 5.3, so let's examine it piece by piece. We'll start with the current state of affairs, then take it from there.