Popular tricks

Avoid casting views to strings. If your view contains an error, casting with `(string)` will cause a less-than-helpful exception to be thrown, pertaining to throwing an exception within the view's `__toString()` method. Use `View::make()->render()` instead.

You can find it here as well: https://github.com/mousavian/laravel-4-custom-db-log or you can just simply do: 1. create logger.php in your "app" folder 2. edit "app\start\global.php" file (or local.php), and add this: 3. all logs will be at "app\storage\logs\query.log"

Support multi languages JSON response

This stumped me for some time and after digging around I found it works great, the uploaded file can be removed from the server as well as the database entry. works well for file sharing and image sharing sites.

Using jQuery AJAX call to collect paginated data.

This method list out all the registered middleware in laravel

Testing an action with a session.

In case you want to access Route parameters outside controller, you can access current Route object and extract parameters from there.

Automatically replace column with a translated value.