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Using laravel eloquent, you have an amazing feature called `Accessors`, which allows you to define a non-existing column, here's an example to get user full_name that does not exist in the users table

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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

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

Separate routes for large applications into multiple smaller route partial files that are automatically loaded at runtime. Example 'app/routes.php' file.

Add the attributes on the second parameter of the attach function.