In this example I use Monolog for logging user activity in my cms admin. Usage: add the following line to the controller's constructor: UserLog::write();

If you want to use Sentry 2 filters used in Laravel 4.x, you have to modify your system a little bit. <br/> First install Sentry 2 for Laravel 5: "composer require cartalyst/sentry:dev-feature/laravel-5" Next add these three files to your App\Http\Middleware folder, then add the references into the Kernel.php file. Finally, I added an example route how to use the Middlewares. An advice: in your controller replace all catch() lines from: catch (Cartalyst\Sentry\Users\LoginRequiredException $e) {} to: catch (\Cartalyst\Sentry\Users\LoginRequiredException $e) {} because it won't work as in Laravel 4.x worked..

If you know what nested sets are, and use lazychazer/laravel-nestedset package, and tried his example application (https://github.com/lazychaser/nestedset-app), then here is a snippet for replace his simple nav rendering to bootstrap (3.x) navbar compatible output. (Laravel 5 solution)

If you have a dynamically generated list from DB, like [1 => 'First option', 2 => 'Second option', ...] use the following Collection magic to build a full select list with 'Please choose..' option at the beginning and 'Other..' option at the end.