Popular tricks

Generate navigation menu's that look clean using a custom class HTML::nav(); Automatically set active state, use conditions to display links, and optionally pass only one value for both url and link name if you want to type a little less

This is my personal reference.

With this trick you will able to unitTest complex query, that will have closures.

You can filter by NULL in Eloquent, but if you're filtering the collection further - filter by empty string, there's no "null" in that field anymore.

Laravel package to let you manage de-normalized tables with simple configurations. Just add array based config in your models and it will automatically sync your denormalized tables. https://github.com/tkeer/flattable

Send a reinitilisation code (6 digits) by email instead of a pratice link for mobile customers. In this case we are using fortify but working well with the laravel authentication system in general.

If you want to use Sentry 2 filters used in Laravel 4.x, you have to modify your system a little bit. <br/> First install Sentry 2 for Laravel 5: "composer require cartalyst/sentry:dev-feature/laravel-5" Next add these three files to your App\Http\Middleware folder, then add the references into the Kernel.php file. Finally, I added an example route how to use the Middlewares. An advice: in your controller replace all catch() lines from: catch (Cartalyst\Sentry\Users\LoginRequiredException $e) {} to: catch (\Cartalyst\Sentry\Users\LoginRequiredException $e) {} because it won't work as in Laravel 4.x worked..

How to update many-to-many relationship

What if you’re working with non-Laravel database and your timestamp columns are named differently? Maybe, you have create_time and update_time. Luckily, you can specify them in the model, too