Recent tricks

Do not trust the client. Safe way to get CSRF token for use in Angular JS. Keeps it as a constant.

Sometimes, you may want to use different pagination types across your application. By default, Laravel will use the type specified in your app/config/view.php file, so you need to override this setting when you wish to use another type. Here is how to do so.

Handling findOrFail exceptions

Error tracking

Forget cache upon model events or custom events

Creating a form macro is very easy and awesome for creating your own UI elements. The original downside I found was losing the automatic model binding from Form::model(). A user on StackOverflow helped solve the problem for me.

There are a few tips already for active states on navigation, however none are based on Route names. I prefer to use Route names for all routes, so here is a modified version of the "active states" trick for route names.

An easy helper method that will assist in setting active classes for navigation items based on the current route.

What if instead of using debugging bar like https://github.com/barryvdh/laravel-debugbar or others, you could use something that integrates directly with Chrome's web developer tools? Imaging viewing request information, headers, get and post data, cookies, session data, DB queries, routes and timing, all within Chrome's developer tools panel? With this extension, you can! Read the instructions below to know how!