We like to stay on the cutting edge, so when Laravel 5 was released in February 2015, it wasn’t a question of whether or not we would migrate our 4.x applications across… it was just a matter of when. After a few slightly painful (but successful) migrations, we decided to put together a comprehensive guide. Hopefully this will […]
In most web apps, we encounter situations where we need to implement repetitive CRUD-type use cases across multiple entities. In our recent projects at Slashnode, we’ve been experimenting with different patterns to try to make it easier and quicker to build out these CRUD-type use cases. The repetition stems from the fact that most CRUD actions for (basic) resources […]
Laravel developers have always had a nice validation class out of the box, but unfortunately we have never had a standard way of using it. Some people prefer doing validation in controllers, others do it in models and I, as many others, preferred to do it in a separate validation layer. Of course, all of these methods worked […]
This is Part 2 of a 3 part series: Part 1: Codebase, Dependencies, Configuration and Backing Services. Part 2: Build Release Run, Processes, Port Binding and Concurrency. Part 3: Disposability, Dev/prod parity, Logs, Admin Processes. This series takes the precepts specified in the 12 Factor App manifesto and examines their relevance within the context of PHP applications. It also aims […]
Laravel has a great dependency injection mechanism and in the newest version this mechanism was improved even more. In this article we will review the way dependency injection works, what’s new in the 5th version and why it is amazing. Constructor injection First of all, let’s see an example of a “classical” constructor dependecy injection. […]
The repository pattern has recently taken on a life of its own in the echo chamber of PHP architecture and development blogs. It seems that just about every PHP developer with a blog has ingested the proverbial flavoured drink mix and written about how the repository pattern can used in a MVC-based web application (this one included!). […]
I was recently reading the excellent tutorial by Peter Suhm which describes a possible behaviour driven development workflow with Behat and PHPSpec. While I think he illustrates the workflow in a coherent way and manages to shed some light on why emergent design via BDD is a useful thing, one particular part of the tutorial didn’t seem […]
One of the most important things for you to consider when planning the deployment of your application into production is how to handle detecting the “environment.” The environment name is a string identifier that is unique for each deployment environment. Typically, descriptive names such as “production,” “local,” “staging,” and “testing” are used, although you can […]
Laravel provides some great tools for simplifying the development of web applications. One of them is the Response facade, which allows us to quickly and easily send information back to the requester (browser window in the case of a normal user, third-party application in the case of API access). Some examples include: But what if […]
This is Part 1 of a 3 part series: Part 1: Codebase, Dependencies, Configuration and Backing Services. Part 2: Build Release Run, Processes, Port Binding and Concurrency. Part 3: Disposability, Dev/prod parity, Logs, Admin Processes. In this series we’re going to look at ways of building scalable, secure and maintainable web applications using the 12 Factor […]
