Tag "4.1" tricks

For example, if you are using a caching server which listens on HTTPS, which retrieves your content from another (local server) which isn't using HTTPS, your links might be generated as http://mysite.com instead of the desired https://mysite.com. With this trick you can circumvent this.

Further explanation: http://www.codinghobo.com/re-organising-laravel-applications-with-psr-4/

Combining Model Observers and Cache Tags for very simple but elegant automatic cache flushing on Eloquent Model updates. Can handle both a Model and its Relations easily!

Use this to generate a select box from a Eloquent Collection

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

Sometimes you need to use some packages only in your local environment, like for debug purposes. You can include service providers in your local configuration file app/config/local/app.php. You have to worry about indexes since if you just paste service provider, it will overwrite one with same index in original configuration.

In the background create your paginated response however you wish.

When you save the password fields, it's been hashed every time. You have to put it in your User model. Thanks to Karl Merkli to add needsRehash

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.