The easiest way to setup docker for Symfony or Laravel
Docker is a handy tool to setup multiple light-weight development environments or to virtualize your server. Too bad, docker has a steep learning curve and demands you to know some…
Read more »Laravel Route Pattern For Whole Word
If you want to match an entire word in a route pattern for Laravel 4, use the underneath snippet. Route::pattern('my_word_pattern', '^myword$'); Route::get('{my_word_pattern}/…
Read more »Laravel form array validation, array_size, required_if
I spent a crazy amount of time on figuring out how to validate form arrays in Laravel. There is some official documentation, but like most official documentation of Laravel, it…
Read more »Laravel Migrations: how to drop a foreign key column
Sometimes it can be desirable to remove a database column that hosts a foreign key relationship (eg: in reverse migration scripts). It can be a bit of a hassle to…
Read more »Laravel: autocomplete for $table in migration scripts
A quick tip: if you want autocomplete (intellisense) when writing migrations in Laravel, you can add type hinting for the $table variable. Just add Blueprint before $table in the function…
Read more »What does ‘composer dump-autoload’ do in Laravel?
Composer is a major part of the Laravel MVC Framework, but it also exists without Laravel. In fact you could use it in any project. This article digs into the…
Read more »Laravel: passing data with Mail:queue() to a view
Mail:send() and Mail:queue() don’t work the same when it comes to passing $data to a view. At least not when you’re passing an eloquent object (or a “model” object). Eg:…
Read more »Laravel and Varnish: admin interface with cookies and public pages without cookies
If you want Laravel to show cached content from Varnish on public pages (so without a cookie), but still want to use a cookie on admin pages, and switch between…
Read more »Laravel use Memcache instead of MemcacheD
Laravel works out of the box with Memcached. However there’s a difference between the linux programs Memcached and Memcache (without the D). To get Laravel to work with Memcache you…
Read more »DrupalCamp Leuven 2013, a brief Saturday review.
It felt like a Monday morning. After my alarm clock didn’t get off (+ 1 hour), I noticed there was only a train 1 hour later, so instead of arriving…
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