Recent tricks

Automatic adding user id. In the: First create columns into database tables with names "updated_by" and "created_by"

Will validate a route pattern against the current route.

It truncates all tables and then it runs all seeders available.

Gulp is a javascript taskrunner (like Grunt) using Nodejs. You can use it to automatically run PHPUnit tests on saved files. Ex: Save Foo.php and run FooTest.php automatically. Link to gist: https://gist.github.com/varghesejacob/56e2637dcb5cd2bc4b51

If you have an array like: array( array('key' => 'value'), array('key' => 'anotherValue'), array('key' => 'sameValue'), array('key' => 'sameValue') ); and you want to make sure that you cant have 'key' with same value twice i was searching a native way to do it, but couldn't find one - so this is my solution:

Perform pattern based CSRF filter on all post, put, patch, and delete requests. Just add this code snippet at the top of routes.php

When saving/updating a model you might want to get a JSON response that includes some relationship data as well.

Response::xml macro

This stumped me for some time and after digging around I found it works great, the uploaded file can be removed from the server as well as the database entry. works well for file sharing and image sharing sites.