Blog articles

Annotations – show me the benefits!

Are routing annotations for Laravel really a good idea?

Laravel 4: Blade helper functions

A little trick for exposing helper functions to Laravel's Blade template engine.

Laravel 4: Maintenance mode

This new feature lets you show a nice maintenance page when deploying or working on your website.

Laravel 4: Model query scopes

How to wrap Eloquent query constraints in named helpers for encapsulation and reuse.

Laravel 4: Query results caching

With Laravel's database layer, results of database queries can easily be stored and retrieved from cache.

Laravel 4: The day is here

Celebrating the release of Laravel 4.0.

Laravel 4: Route parameter binding

A useful feature that lets you DRY out your controllers.

A PHP Short Array Syntax Converter

Use it from the console for converting your code to the new PHP 5.4 array syntax.

Laravel 4: Eloquent attribute mutators

Learn how you can compute additional attributes on your Eloquent models, without storing them in the database.

Laravel 4: CSS error classes in forms

How to quickly highlight form fields when they have errors.

Can’t use function return value in write context

Understanding and avoiding this error message.

PHP's Memcached extension and write failures

A tricky-to-find, but easy-to-apply workaround.

Integrate FluxBB 1.4 with a WordPress site

Learn how to integrate a FluxBB forum into your WordPress site's design.