In some cases we want to get Eloquent model single column value based on other column value. Let’s assume we have user id and we want to get his e-mail only. We can obviously do:
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$user = User::find($id); $email = $user->email; |
or even shorter:
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$email = User::find($id)->email; |
but there is one big problem with this – what if user doesn’t exist? Obviously … [Read more…]
When developing not trivial application it often happens that we need to make some data transformations. Let’s assume we we have user and address and we create API and want to data come in the following format:
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[ 'name' => 'John', 'surname' => 'Doe', 'address' => [ 'street' => 'Street', 'zipcode' => '23123', 'city' => 'Some city', ] ] |
but in database we don’t want to create separate table and put address fields in user table … [Read more…]
Laravel 5.3 framework has been just released. I won’t focus on new features about it right now, I will just make it clear how to install different versions of Laravel without a problem as for many especially new developers it causes problem. As Composer is standard for installing dependencies let’s use this method to install … [Read more…]
As Laravel developer we don’t deal only with Laravel specific features, but quite often with pure PHP. Let’s verify your knowledge a bit. What would be the result of the following script:
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<?php die(var_dump(1200.85 * 100 === 120085)); |
Possible answers: false true It depends … Okay, you’ve chosen your answer. The second question – would the answer change if we … [Read more…]
As we all know, writing tests is very useful when developing applications. But sometimes you might find issues when writing tests that are really hard to detect. If you ever got “Serialization of ‘Closure’ is not allowed” / “unserialize(): Error at offset 0 of 186 bytes in” errors when running PhpUnit together with Mockery – … [Read more…]
When you want to validate Laravel input, you can do it out of the box using for example Form Request class. Let’s assume you want to allow creating tags. Each created tag should have at least 3 characters. Simple? Well, it looks really easy, but when we look at details, we can find a few … [Read more…]