Popular tricks

When creating JS heavy apps some times you need to simulate a network delay so you can see how things are working as it's loading. This simple trick will do just that.

Remove tags in controller with excepts fields https://gist.github.com/oLDu67/10863c9f51064d1d9390016b28143f85

Uses "thepixeldeveloper/sitemap": "dev-master" in composer.json to create a better organised sitemap structure via multiple "files" (routes).

Laravel OTP is a comprehensive package that simplifies the generation and verification of Time-based One-Time Passwords (TOTP) and HMAC-based One-Time Passwords (HOTP). Whether you're building two-factor authentication or securing API access, Laravel OTP offers an easy-to-use, Google Authenticator-compatible solution. With support for TOTP and HOTP, and built-in methods for secret generation and verification, this package is perfect for adding an additional layer of security to your Laravel applications.

A few days ago I released a new package called obiefyapi-response, It is simple api response wrapper for laravel, you can give it try from GitHub URL: https://github.com/obiefy/api-response

If you are running Laravel 4 behind Cloudflare over HTTPS some functions like ‘Request::secure()’ and ‘Request::isSecure()’ will return false. By using the setTrustedProxies method of the Request facade we can add the Cloudflare IP ranges to trust, thus the Request class will honor the ‘X-Forwarded-Proto’ and other ‘X-Forwarded’ headers.

Sometimes, you have differences between your dev set-up and production set-up that requires you to be able to set a different value for public_path. In your bindings.php file, just add the following code and you will be good.

example of how to test API with Codeception and Laravel

If you have an array like: array( array('key' => 'value'), array('key' => 'anotherValue'), array('key' => 'sameValue'), array('key' => 'sameValue') ); and you want to make sure that you cant have 'key' with same value twice i was searching a native way to do it, but couldn't find one - so this is my solution: