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It's a bit tricky to figure out exactly where to put a breakpoint to quickly check your final sql statement before execution. This is for 4.2 but may be similar in

A simple setup for create an artisan make:repository command See more https://github.com/sexym0nk3y/Laravel-5.3-Repository

There are not any option to disable view cache in Laravel but in windows you can use following .bat file out of box and in other OS's you can do something similar...

If you know what nested sets are, and use lazychazer/laravel-nestedset package, and tried his example application (https://github.com/lazychaser/nestedset-app), then here is a snippet for replace his simple nav rendering to bootstrap (3.x) navbar compatible output. (Laravel 5 solution)

using same form request for create and update

Starting from 4.1.28, Application::boot() does not initialize sensitive session data anymore. That is, it is accessible, but encrypted. So if you're integrating 3rd party library, which needs external authentification check through sessions, simple checking Auth::check() will not work. However, we can still use old $_SESSION variable. Examples of 3rd party libraries: CkFinder, elFinder (has Laravel package though), MoxieManager. N.B. If you can use Ajax calls for authorization checks, you can still make a custom API with JSON request to user-logged (as an example) to see if user is authentificated.

A Link assets based on which controller is currently requested. Any improvements to this code are welcome

Blade's path syntax is a little odd - it uses dots instead of slashes, and always requires you to start your paths from the views root. This Blade extension allows you to pass paths with slashes, and correctly resolves parent paths via the traditional ../ syntax. Lastly, the quoting of paths is optional.

Here posts and categories have many to many relationships. the tricks are to fetch posts having a particular category attribute with categories details.