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You can use this when you want to add a placeholder to your Form::selectRange or Form::selectMonth.

Since Eloquent doesn't do a real join when using "with" this will add a simple join method without having to worry about the join columns since it's all stored with the models anyway. It will also select all the columns from the joined table with an added prefix of the table name.

When you need to pass some data to the Mail::send or Mail::queue, you need to make use of the "use" approach:

If we have a blog, sometimes we want to display all latest posts by category. Take an example with this website where I put those posts in a carousel on the homepage: http://dadack.com

If you want to redirect all HTTP traffic to HTTPS (SSL) you can use this method. However, note that this may NOT work out of the box if you are behind CloudFlare/load balancer/reverse proxy unless you set a trusted proxy, more info here: http://www.laravel-tricks.com/tricks/fix-ssl-in-laravel-4-when-server-is-behind-a-load-balancer-or-a-reverse-proxy

If you are running Laravel 4 and behind a load balancer or a reverse proxy, some HTTPS functions like ‘Request::secure()’ and ‘Request::isSecure()’ will return false. If we add the current IP which belongs to the proxy/load balancer to the setTrustedProxies then the Request class will honour the ‘X-Forwarded-Proto’ and other ‘X-Forwarded’ headers and the mentioned functions would work fine. Note: THIS METHOD CANNOT BE TRUSTED unless ALL requests go through a proxy YOU control.

If you are running Laravel 4 behind Cloudflare over HTTPS some functions like ‘Request::secure()’ and ‘Request::isSecure()’ will return false. By using the setTrustedProxies method of the Request facade we can add the Cloudflare IP ranges to trust, thus the Request class will honor the ‘X-Forwarded-Proto’ and other ‘X-Forwarded’ headers.

This scope function applies a callback to the elements of a given query collection.