Laravel

Parsing ENV Boolean Values in Laravel

How do we ensure boolean values are parsed as such when using a .env file in Laravel?

Feb 1, 2022

Ionic 5 + VueJS + Laravel + JWT

Recently I've been dabbling in building an iOS application for JobStruct, a business management tool for concrete contractors. Since I'm familiar with Vue we decided to use Ionic framework which allows an app to be written in javascript and then run as an application on ios and Android using web views. The two-part article series from Naveen Bommidi regarding authorization with JWT has been a good starting point.

Visit Part 1 & Part 2.

Nov 15, 2021

Upgrading Laravel Homestead

Upgrading Laravel Homestead on my system requires a few additional steps not outlined in the official documentation. Instead of recreating them from memory each time I wanted to collect the items here.

Apr 27, 2021

Fixing Segmentation Fault Error on CircleCI

Try disabling xdebug if you get a segmentation fault error when running php unit tests on CircleCI. Xdebug is installed automatically on some docker images and can cause segfaults during the build process.

Jan 11, 2021

Renaming a Column with a Foreign Key in Laravel

This database originally used "customer_id" as the column name for the owner of each row, however the actual model being referenced was a "User". Here's how I changed the name of the column (which happened to have a foreign key on it) via Laravel migration:

Jul 14, 2020

For When Things Get Gnarly in Eloquent

Jonathan Reinink has written some excellent content around Eloquent and this article is one that I reference frequently. Jonathan walks us through handling sticky situations when we need to get a single record back from a relationship without causing N+1 issues.

Dynamic Relationships in Laravel using Subqueries →

May 20, 2020

Eager Loading Polymorphic Relations

Derek MacDonald wrote a nice post about eager loading polymorphic relationships. This has been a difficult item to solve so it's nice to see a documented approach that works for many scenarios. Thanks Derek!

Eager Loading Polymorphic Relations →

Mar 16, 2020