Recent tricks

Like I said in my old post, I created a package, which makes it easy for you to implement some functionalities to edit/update/modify your .env-file. See more on GitHub: https://github.com/Brotzka/laravel-dotenv-editor. Tell me, if you have any suggestions to extend this package.

An easy way to organize a large number of routes.

If you want to use(or work with) another database in a section of your project use following steps... step 1. Create another connection in config/database.php step 2. Insert new connection info in .env file... step 3. Tell to laravel to use this new connection

This snippet will allow you to add to the request. Tested in Laravel 5.2

In some cases Netshell/Paypal throws error "Class Paypal does not exist". In my case on ubuntu/php7/nginx (on windows with apache is ok). So here is simple workaround

I was looking for a way to change the .env-values within a controller or from something else. I found nothing, so I created my own little method. It takes an array of new values. The array key must be the key from the .env. The script overwrites the old .env. Yet not perfect, but works for now. UPDATE: I am developing a package which will provide this functionality in a better way. The package will ship with some more features. UPDATE: Here is the Link to the Package: https://github.com/Brotzka/laravel-dotenv-editor. Give it a try ;) There will be more features in a few days.

Don't forget to add the `DATABASE_QUERIES_DEBUG` in the .env file. Call this function `$this->debugDatabaseQueries()` from any service provider `register` function:

Migration file sample for Pivot table

Dynamically testing and Pagination feature in a Restful API