Tag "4.2" tricks

Get results in a table when there are no results for the relationship

Displaying different module/package dashboard widgets using view composers.

Once jobs have been added on the queue, we need to process them one by one. php artisan queue:listen does - It listens for jobs and runs them as they become available. But the main problem is how do we make php listen at all times ? We need to avoid having to "supervise" this process manually. This is where supervisord comes in. This is the configuration file to be placed in the /etc/supervisor/conf.d/ directory, which will create a supervisor program called "queue" which will monitor and make sure the php artisan queue:listen --tries=3 is always running.

Variable Dump Helper, a function to dump variables to the screen, in a nicely formatted manner. This is useful if you want to see the contents of your variable array. This is originally created by Mr. Joost van Veen. Source: https://gist.github.com/accent-interactive/3838495

Model Based Setting Different Connection when working with 2 or more database in laravel

Switching Maintenance Mode to Production And Vice Versa Quickly in laravel 4.2

In this example I use Monolog for logging user activity in my cms admin. Usage: add the following line to the controller's constructor: UserLog::write();

Change email configuration on the fly.

Temporarily log in as another user, but switch back to the original user at any time. Inspired by the User Switching plugin for WordPress. I use this for testing data being shown based on user role.