The idea of Laravel Corcel is very appealing. I’ve worked on two projects with Corcel. The projects were built years apart from each other by two entirely different teams. Corcel is a collection of PHP classes built on top of Eloquent ORM (from Laravel framework), that provides a fluent interface to connect and get data directly from a WordPress database.You can … Continued
Laravel makes it really easy to test if a file was uploaded in phpunit. Lets take a look at what it it takes to test for files. Lets say that we have a method containing the following code that we want to test. The corresponding test that would provide coverage for that code is the … Continued
I find it tiring to type the same long commands out repeatedly. When working locally, I’m currently using Laravel Sail for my environment. Laravel Sail describes itself using the following. Laravel Sail is a light-weight command-line interface for interacting with Laravel’s default Docker development environment. Sail provides a great starting point for building a Laravel application … Continued
I ran into an issue with a Laravel application I was working on. The issue was related to a long running job. The job generally takes between 10 to 15 minutes to complete. Before the job kicked off we would change a value in the database to indicate the job was in progress – we’ll … Continued