Tag "4.0" tricks

I have a legacy system that uses SHA1 for passwords as opposed to bcrypt, which is used by Laravel. For now, I need people to be able to access through both systems. I use the auth.attempt event to handle password conversion.

Laravel passes 100% test coverage on Hip Hop Virtual Machine (HHVM) so you might want to try using it to host your next Laravel application. The advantage of HHVM is an increase in speed of executing your PHP scripts and thus boosting your application. This config was provided by Taylor Otwell.

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.

An easy helper method that will assist in setting active classes for navigation items based on the current route.

What if instead of using debugging bar like https://github.com/barryvdh/laravel-debugbar or others, you could use something that integrates directly with Chrome's web developer tools? Imaging viewing request information, headers, get and post data, cookies, session data, DB queries, routes and timing, all within Chrome's developer tools panel? With this extension, you can! Read the instructions below to know how!

When you're into making an API, you may wish to make the format of the responses you provide dynamic. If you're not using controllers, you would make a class, but if you use controllers, it's a pretty good idea to place it in the base controller. As well you may restructure your response data to include more fields, e.g. for testing purposes you may wish to also include some custom debug.

Laravel 4 have a lot of features some hidden :) for some developers, i found the option to run artisan commands from route or controller, like Artisan::call('migrate:install'); or Artisan::call('migrate', [ '--path'=>'app/database/migrations' ]); Artisan::call('db:seed'); it is usefull when you don't have access to the console in share hosting environments.

When you want to check a Hashed value generated by `Hash::make()` you need to use `Hash::check('unhashed', $hashed)`. Every time you run `Hash::make('string')`, a different hash is made and will not match the previous one.

Sometimes the compiled file could get corrupted and not function properly, breaking your Laravel installation. This is a list of steps you could use trying to fix a Laravel installation that previously worked just fine on a server.