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For one of my projects I needed to get an ID of the previous and next record in the DB. This could go well with portfolios, orders, blog posts, all kinds of things where you need to display next/previous entry links. Let’s say we are logged in as an admin and we are on this user’s page and we want to see next/previous user’s id. The following Eloquent code makes it easy to do that. Enjoy!

Sometimes you might want to delete/update a whole lot of items that are related to a model when a record under that model is deleted from the database. This could be useful for various scenarios when there is a lot of processing that needs to be done upon model deletion. Laravel provides model events that you can use in that case.

Laravel Cashier makes it easy to create subscription-based websites and collect money from customers. Passing an extra array to create() method allows passing data specific to Stripe's API along with creating a new subscription for the customer. To see which fields are supported check this section of Stripe's API: https://stripe.com/docs/api#create_customer