If you want to use(or work with) another database in a section of your project use following steps... step 1. Create another connection in config/database.php step 2. Insert new connection info in .env file... step 3. Tell to laravel to use this new connection

Laravel MySQL in default returns "SQLSTATE[HY000]: General error: 1366 Incorrect string value" error in emoji save... this error is because Laravel in default uses utf8 charset in MySQL, change your `config/database.php` like below and reset your migration instead putting out that error...

There are not any option to disable view cache in Laravel but in windows you can use following .bat file out of box and in other OS's you can do something similar...