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Ozu, a static website deployment solution for Laravel projects, is now recruiting beta testers.

Ozu, a static website deployment solution for Laravel projects, is now recruiting beta testers.

In the past few months we built a project, at Code 16, that we found very useful to build and deploy static websites. We weren’t very happy…
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Philippe Lonchampt
How to handle business days in PHP

How to handle business days in PHP

When developing a commerce-related application, it’s sometimes necessary to determine whether a point of sale is open or closed on a given…
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Efficient searching through PDFs with MySQL and Laravel

Efficient searching through PDFs with MySQL and Laravel

Search functionality is often crucial in a modern web application. When a website provides documents with extensive text, such as PDF…
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How to make sure ray() won’t break your Laravel application with Github Action

How to make sure ray() won’t break your Laravel application with Github Action

Scan your Laravel application and detect remaining Spatie’s ray calls in your CI workflow to prevent triggering errors in production.
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Validating critical email address in Laravel

Validating critical email address in Laravel

Learn how to validate email address from your customers and make sure you can contact them with confidence with Laravel’s power feature
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Sharp for Laravel has a new online demo project

Sharp for Laravel has a new online demo project

Since version 4, Sharp companion demo / testing app, named Saturn, was kind of clumsy: it was hard to understand, as a new user, what was…
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How to use the new PHP enum in Laravel

How to use the new PHP enum in Laravel

PHP 8.1 introduced long awaited support for built-in Enums. There is no more need for custom solutions as Since 8.69 Laravel has your back.
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Automatically delete read database notifications in Laravel

Automatically delete read database notifications in Laravel

When using Laravel, if you need to notify your users you can benefit from its built-in notification system. Laravel provides support for…
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Sharp 7 for Laravel is released

Sharp 7 for Laravel is released

The beta has ended, with a final refactoring on entities and menu declaration
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Sharp for Laravel: the age of Reason

Sharp for Laravel: the age of Reason

Sharp for Laravel has a new major version: Sharp 7.
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How to test Laravel Horizon notification setup with slack

How to test Laravel Horizon notification setup with slack

In Laravel Horizon you can setup a notification system for being alerted when there is a too long wait time on your queues (and check if…
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Bulk uploads in Sharp, the right way

Bulk uploads in Sharp, the right way

We just released version 6.3 of Sharp for Laravel, with a feature that was expected since a long time: the ability to upload multiple files…
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Philippe Lonchampt
Cheap on-demand optimized images with Laravel and AWS

Cheap on-demand optimized images with Laravel and AWS

Setting up your own image transform service on AWS to serve properly sized and optimized assets with Laravel
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Sharp 6 for Laravel: new UI, breadcrumb and refinements

Sharp 6 for Laravel: new UI, breadcrumb and refinements

Six months after a v5 which was mainly a technical bump, Sharp for Laravel hits version 6, and this time there are new features (along…
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A probability approach to cache a resource retrieved from an external API.

A probability approach to cache a resource retrieved from an external API.

Recently I had, for a project at Code 16, to deal with an external API (a very bad one, but that’s another story). This is for a book…
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How to customize Laravel API resources?

How to customize Laravel API resources?

It may be for optimization, or to choose what data should be sent in different contexts.
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Philippe Lonchampt
Sharp 5 is out today: let’s review some real world projects.

Sharp 5 is out today: let’s review some real world projects.

TL;DR this 5 version is a major Sharp for Laravel version, but with minor breaking changes.
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How to keep PHP updated with last patch version on Ubuntu

How to keep PHP updated with last patch version on Ubuntu

As a webdev, sysadmin is hard. So here is my recipe to make unattended-upgrades automatically upgrade php with ondrej PPA on ubuntu
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How to make up-selling recommendations based on cart using Redis

How to make up-selling recommendations based on cart using Redis

Tutorial on how to make recommendations on cart’s summary with popular items based on past orders with redis instead of classic SQL
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