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I like to set body id/class from within the child view (for css purposes). Previously I was passing this information to the view from the controller but decided I didn't like that, so I came up with this.

Laravel Cashier makes it easy to create subscription-based websites and collect money from customers. Passing an extra array to create() method allows passing data specific to Stripe's API along with creating a new subscription for the customer. To see which fields are supported check this section of Stripe's API: https://stripe.com/docs/api#create_customer

for software different features and set Feature On/Off

For those who don't know. These ways of code are equivalent.

Sometimes you want to render a partial without sharing all the scope. I often found that the scope inheritance between highly decoupled UI modules makes hard to find errors, because we end up using similar variable names in each module (using @include) Let me show you an example:

Creating a form macro is very easy and awesome for creating your own UI elements. The original downside I found was losing the automatic model binding from Form::model(). A user on StackOverflow helped solve the problem for me.

Laravel 4 CSRF on all POST requests

This is how you delete/drop a database using Laravel. If you are not using MySQL you may replace or remove the backtick (`) sign.

Learn how to power your Laravel application so that you are using ajax alongside Laravel pagination to fetch new content ( posts or whatever entity you need to display ), without refreshing the page. Video tutorial -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cmbkEQG8is