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Laravel is a web application framework with expressive, elegant syntax.The PHP Framework for Web Artisans,freeing you to create without sweating the small things. CRUD Operation With Server Side.

There are a few tips already for active states on navigation, however none are based on Route names. I prefer to use Route names for all routes, so here is a modified version of the "active states" trick for route names.

Save yourself from all the boilerplate of tracking/observing and reacting to model attribute changes.

This snippet will explain how to use environment variables to configure your environment. Blog post: http://dor.ky/laravel-homestead-add-enviroment-variables-to-nginx/

Here a user has a location with many to many positions. This query finds users having position id 4 and location id 6. the tables are users, profile, locations. and profile has location_id.

Dynamically testing and Pagination feature in a Restful API

Ever wanted to route pretty SEO urls to a controller with a specific ID without having to query the DB every time to match the URL to the page? On a number of projects previously, I've created cached versions of route files so that we can save all the URLs for a site and cut down on DB queries to work out what item we're viewing. Create another routes file that you write to whenever an entry is saved. You may end up with a lot of entries in the file, as each route will be for an individual item. Pass the ID to your controller action via the route like so:

Suppose you want to use Laravel query builder to search items in your db like this ?filter[search]=yourkeyword

Laravel offers a dynamic interface for assigning certain data. This can be used e.g. for adding a dynamic 'where' to your Eloquent queries. However, not everyone know that this same trick also works on View assignments!