New Features in Laravel 5.0

Sep 10, 2014 | laravel, 5.0, laravel 5

Laravel 5.0 - ValidatesWhenResolved

In creating FormRequest, Taylor separated out both an interface (ValidatesWhenResolved) and a trait (ValidatesWhenResolvedTra...

Sep 10, 2014 | laravel, 5.0, laravel 5

Laravel 5.0 - Form Requests

Laravel 5.0 Laravel 5.0 is coming out in November, and there are a lot of features that have folks excited. The New Director...

Sep 12, 2014 | laravel, laravel 5, 5.0

Laravel 5.0 - Directory structure and namespace

One of the big reasons Laravel 4.3 got moved to 5.0 is because the directory structure can seem like a big shift in thinking....

Sep 20, 2014 | laravel, 5.0, laravel 5

Laravel 5.0 - Route Caching

Performance optimization within our PHP code isn't always something at the forefront of our minds, but our backend code--espe...

Sep 28, 2014 | laravel, laravel 5, 5.0

Laravel 5.0 - Cloud File Drivers

In Laravel 5, you can now use the same Filesystem class which previously simplified interactions with the local filesystem, a...

Sep 30, 2014 | laravel, 5.0, laravel 5

Laravel 5.0 - Method Injection

Laravel 5.0 introduces the ability for the Container to resolve depencies injected into any methods that are resolved by the ...

Oct 9, 2014 | laravel, 5.0, laravel 5

Laravel 5.0 - Route Annotations (removed)

Note: Route Annotations were eventually removed from core, and separated to a package maintained by the Laravel Community....

Oct 10, 2014 | laravel, 5.0, laravel 5

Laravel 5.0 - Middleware (Filter-style)

If you've been following along with my previous blog posts about Laravel 5.0, you may have noticed that route filters were fi...

Oct 10, 2014 | laravel, 5.0, laravel 5

Laravel 5.0 - Event Annotations (removed)

Note: Event Annotations were eventually removed from core, and separated to a package maintained by the Laravel Community....

Oct 16, 2014 | laravel, 5.0, laravel 5

Laravel 5.0 - Environment Detection & Environment Variables

If you've followed my blog for a while, you've probably seen me struggle with Laravel's environment detection--especially reg...

Nov 20, 2014 | laravel, 5.0, laravel 5

Laravel 5.0 - Event Scheduling

Eric Barnes has a longer write up on this, so I'll just keep it short: Laravel 5.0 is introducing a pretty incredible cron-s...

Jan 2, 2015 | laravel, 5.0, commands, laravel 5

Laravel 5.0 - Commands & Handlers

As you’ve probably read me mention on Twitter, I’ve paused on blogging new Laravel 5 features to try to give Taylor some ...

Jan 16, 2015 | laravel, laravel 5

Upgrading from Laravel 4 to Laravel 5

It's very simple to get started in a new Laravel 5 app: composer create-project laravel/laravel my-project-name-here dev-deve...

Jan 19, 2015 | laravel 5, laravel

Bringing Whoops Back to Laravel 5

You might be missing the "prettier" Whoops error handler from Laravel 4. If so, here's how to bring it back. Update: If y...

Jan 21, 2015 | laravel, events, 5.0, laravel 5

Laravel 5.0 - Events & Handlers

If you haven't read it yet, go read the Laravel 5.0 - Commands & Handlers post. It'll give much-needed background for ...

Jan 26, 2015 | laravel, laravel 5

Laravel 5.0 - Generating Missing Events

Sometimes it can seem like a lot of work to create an event, create its handler, and bind the two. Create a command, create i...

Feb 1, 2015 | laravel, laravel 5

Laravel 5.0 - Custom Error Pages

When you wanted to customize your error pages—for example, showing a particular cat GIF when your users hit a 404—you’d...

Feb 14, 2015 | laravel 5, laravel, eloquent

Laravel 5.0 - Eloquent Attribute Casting

I had completely forgotten to finish my Laravel 5.0 blog posts, but I saw a great quick introduction to attribute casting at ...

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