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Database Migrations and Seeding in Laravel

Tyler Souza — Thu, 29 Dec 2016 01:11:53 +0000

Hello there! This is a video I created that covers database migrations and data seeding Laravel. It covers how to create migrations, how to work with you seeder class and how to create model...

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Sending Email in Laravel with Mailables

Tyler Souza — Thu, 15 Dec 2016 01:14:56 +0000

I recently found out about a feature in Laravel 5.3 as I was working with email. That was when I discovered Laravel Mailables. This is a great, clean way to send email; especially if...

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Laravel Collections: The map() Method

Tyler Souza — Thu, 01 Dec 2016 02:43:22 +0000

In the last blog post, I talked about collections in Laravel. I decided to make a video this time, taking about the map() method and what it does. The video explains the map() method...

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Laravel Collections Make PHP Development Awesome

Tyler Souza — Wed, 30 Nov 2016 02:18:45 +0000

Laravel provides a lot of amazing tools out-of-the-box and collections are one of them. The collection class within Illuminate\Support is basically a wrapper that allows you to work with and manipulate arrays of data....

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Laravel Vlog: Exploring Authentication in Laravel and Defaults.

Tyler Souza — Sun, 03 Jul 2016 08:08:54 +0000

Just a short video on Authentication in Laravel. We will explore the default auth settings in this amazing framework! I totally forgot to add “username” to the $fillable array inside the User model. It’s...

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Laravel Vlog: Building a Bookings API with Lumen

Tyler Souza — Fri, 18 Dec 2015 06:32:56 +0000

So I’ve been getting into building APIs. I’m really starting to enjoy that area. In this vlog, I just wanted to share what I’ve been build so far. I’ve been building a sort of...

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Laravel Vlog: Creating a Todo App – Part 2: Validation and User Feedback

Tyler Souza — Thu, 10 Dec 2015 07:02:20 +0000

In part 2 of this Laravel Vlog series, I add in some validation in our “create” todo form. We solve the problem of stopping the form from submitted when there is no input in...

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Laravel Vlog: Creating a Todo App – Part 1

Tyler Souza — Wed, 02 Dec 2015 09:46:01 +0000

I created my first YouTube video tonight! Finally had the guts! I decided to make a Laravel Vlog, discussing Laravel related things. In this video, I get the initial “Todo” app setup and dive...

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Experimenting with Repositories

Tyler Souza — Thu, 29 Oct 2015 19:49:23 +0000

So I guess this is somewhat of a live coding session, only in a Github Gist format. I’m still trying to wrap my head around the Repository Pattern in Laravel. In this Gist, I...

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Building REST APIs: Returning a JSON Response in Laravel

Tyler Souza — Mon, 28 Sep 2015 19:50:51 +0000

Lately, I’ve been getting into building and designing REST APIs. I’ve found it quite simple to do this in Laravel. Let’s say I have a this particular endpoint: /api/v1/project/1 and it is a GET...

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