Recent tricks

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.

You’re using Laravel 5 and you want to switch from less (which is used by default) to sass? Here is some steps that you can follow in order to make that transition.

I don't personally use it, but some might find it useful. Laravel 5 paginator accepts a custom presenter for the paginator. In case you don't want to create a class or want to edit HTML directly, try the following trick.

If you are using Web Developer Extension in Firefox (or similar), you can enable the debug mode creating a cookie. Just create a cookie called 'debug' with value '1', and path '/', then open up your app.php and edit the debug option with the following:

When user clicks on "delete" button, open a confirmation box before deleting an item.

Iteratively display "page breadcrumbs" - ideal for a partial.

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

I was looking for a way to remove one of my middlewares in testing. I could not find it, so I wrote a simple function to do it. Put the following function in your 'TestCase.php'

Auth::attempt($auth) giving problem. ErrorException in ClassLoader.php line 317: Uninitialized string offset: 0