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Laravel is one of a famous and widely used PHP framework which is growing with immense pace since its version 4.2. Learning Laravel & Setting up your application locally is not much of a difficult task but when it comes to deployment, developers often find it a bit tricky to handle.

There are several PHP frameworks for a web development project. Among them Laravel is regarded as the best open-source PHP web framework.

If you've no idea what macroable functionality is, take it as something you want to extend in within Laravel with a piece of code that doesn't exists in the Class.

The back-end is one of the integral parts of modern web application development & PHP is one of most preferred platforms.

If you're on MacOSX & use Laravel valet for managing your development environment. Then this issue might arouse when you try to upgrade your PHP version or even Laravel Valet. But there's an easy fix for that.

Maintaining Database Relationships in Laravel is quite a task but when it comes to nested relationships, things get a bit tangled up to handle.

When it comes to validation in Laravel. Developers often refer to using separate Requests to achieve it. Now for creating and updating, rules might get a little bit tricky. But we've got you covered.

While Developing applications in Laravel, there comes situations where you have date in simple string format. For instance getting raw response from an API. But you want to convert that string into Carbon instance and use the Carbon helpers on it. Well there's a simple solution to it.

Laravel ships in with the awesomeness of Database Migrations which allows you to version control your database. But there are number of events when you are required to change the datatypes or attributes assigned to your table columns inside of your migrations.

Sometimes you need to provide dropdowns in your exported excel files for more enhanced look on the data. Here's how we can achieve it.

Exporting Excel files come handy when you're building some inventory kind of an application. In this short tutorial, we'll go through on exporting excel files with Laravel & look on for some crazy hacks and tricks in between.

If you want your table to have literally one of anything, then one to one is the most simplest relationship. For instance, a token is generated for resetting a user password & its a simple one to one relationship between users and password_resets table.

If you're using Laravel's default authentication for your user management system, but wanted to change URI's and text in the default Password Reset email. Well There's a way out we can achieve that in Laravel.

As you might have heard, Laravel 5.6 is out with lots of new stuff packed for developers. Here's what you need to know before migrating your website from Laravel5.5 to Laravel 5.6

One should be careful while developing any application with the number of SQL queries triggered for each request.

Taylor Otwell will announce the Laravel new 5.6 v just after his talk at this year's Laracon Online. Book your ticket if you haven't.

You may know how to handle file inputs in PHP with cURL, as we've discussed earlier but GuzzleHTTP Client comes for the rescue to overcome messy code and get things done in more cleaner manner.

Handling files while working with APIs are always a pain. While working with API calls, the most common solution is cURL for sure for requesting & receiving data through the valid endpoints.

Database Migrations are no doubt the best thing about Laravel, where your PHP code transforms into SQL with so less effort than usual. But what if you wanted to write a migration for a SQL dump file?