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Squatting Namespaces

Recently I've been involved in an integration of SPID, the SSO system used by Italian public administrations. It is an extension of SAML (an OIDC implementation was supposed to exist, until mostly political issue raised during the deployment...), and the reference PHP implementation was built on top of the popular

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Password Hard Reset

As it happens quite often to enforce by code, in a Laravel application, a password reset for a user (e.g. when manually creating a new user from the administration panel, and the new password has to be choosen by the user himself), and every time I have to dive

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Get Another Text

Years ago I had the questionable idea to ignore the native Laravel localization features and adopt the more supported Gettext way, involving tools to automatically extract strings from the code and populate files in a widely recognized format. It seems I lost my bet: the Laravel native format got more

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Destroy the (Laravel) Environment

Context: I have a Laravel multi tenancy application, with different .env files loaded according the current accessed subdomain and containing many parameters (the database configuration for each instance, but also many other items). This works when you access the PHP application via web, and booting the app from scratch at

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Parametric Interface

I want to share the following recent experience for a little proud. In GASdotto - my main open source project - I heavily use Larastrap, my own library of Bootstrap5 components for Laravel Blade. Actually, Larastrap has been implemented in the first instance as a derivation of GASdotto's internals. Among

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Little Small Laravel Components

Tonight I had the good idea to profile (using this package, really suggested) Larastrap, my heavily opinionated library of Bootstrap components for Laravel. And I was surprised to find that most of the time was wasted in Illuminate\View\FileViewFinder::findInPaths() function. With a bit of investigation I landed on

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Laravel Catch All Relationship

Sometimes you want a "catch all" relationship in your Laravel model. The most common case is the "admin" User able to access all entities of a given other model, with no explicit belongsToMany or hasMany relationships described in the database, while other Users can access only assigned entities. Of course

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Lazy Tagging Outgoing Email

I used to send my transactional email using AWS SES, but more recently - due some annoying problem with the access to AWS - I moved away to land on SendInBlue. Good service, based in Europe (GDPR FTW!), already integrated with the Symfony Mailer - and, by extension, with Laravel.

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Override Sorting in Eloquent

A very peculiar use case: in a Laravel application, within a complex flow of encapsulated functions which builds different types of Eloquent queries, I always have to orderBy() the created_at timestamp. Except in one situation. The proper way to fix should be to pass a extra parameter to handle

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Are You Sure?

All we know the confirmation dialog boxes to be prompted to the user - e.g. on deletion actions - and for my Laravel applications I've consolidated an approach a bit more articulated then the classic (and ugly, and poorly informative) confirm('Are you sure?') attached to some submit

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Polymorphic, More or Less

An existing Laravel codebase, quite good but with a low level of abstraction, an a feature already existing for a given context (dates of availability for X) to replicate to another context (dates of availability for Y). At first, a polymorphic relationship would have been the solution to abstract the

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Squeezing JS

I'm working on a website with hard requirements in SEO and performance, so I have to cut millisecond after millisecond to reduce the "Web Vitals" parameters (and in particular the so-called "Largest Contentful Paint"). And I've entered the magical world of automated tools for CSS optimization. Two are the most

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Scroll and Fall

Working on browser unit test with Laravel Dusk I've been hunted for many days on a specific error: "element click intercepted". This is generated in two situations: when "Element FOOBAR is not clickable at point (X, Y). Other element would receive the click" it means that the desired element is

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Talking with the Unit Tests

I had the very bad idea to try browser testing, writing some code on top of Laravel Dusk for an application of mine. Apart the quantity of time wasted to instrument the test for every action (scroll a little down to reach the Save button, add some artifical pause to

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Introducing: Larastrap

At least one year ago I realized that my main open source project (GASdotto: a management application for Purchasing Groups built with Laravel) was stuck on Bootstrap 3, while Bootstrap 4 was been around for a while and Bootstrap 5 was already been announced. So I wanted to upgrade the

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Cutting Eloquent Models with Blade

If you already tried to do something with Blade Components in Laravel, probably you already stumbled upon the many limitations of the subsystems. Among the many, the latest - and most disappointing - I've found is that seems not possible to pass an Eloquent instance as attribute to a component:

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Lazy Async Jobs

UPDATE: I've just published a package on Packagist to manage Asyncronous Jobs over HTTP requests. I have a Laravel application sendings a lot of mail notifications when certain operations are done, so I wanted to delegate mail sending to a Queue to avoid to the users long waits for the

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Dynamic Global Scope

I have an application which usually handles, on the same instance, different groups of informations isolated by context: each user is assigned to one of the contexts, many users act inside the same context, when a user logs in all the managed data are relative to his own context. This

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Laravel Infinite Scroll

I needed to quickly implement a very simple infinite scroll behaviour on a very simple page. Due laziness I got a look for any dirty hack suggested by random people on the internet to do that in Laravel, ready to be copied and pasted; I found a method using jScroll

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Influenced by SPARQL

It is some time now that I'm working on a SPARQL ORM for Laravel, directly derived from Eloquent and sharing (at least, in the original intention) the same feeling and interface. I've not tagged yet a first release, but I'm actually esperimenting with some very simple use cases to test,

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Not so Static Assets with Laravel

Handling Laravel routing in ReactPHP, I missed a particular use case: managing the assets usually sitting in the public/ folder. Publishing a regular application with a regular web server it takes care to directly fetch and serve the files from the filesystem, but wrapping the application into a ReactPHP loop

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Routing ReactPHP with Laravel

As previously mentioned, I'm actually playing with asyncronous PHP and I'm trying to combine ReactPHP (which is the most popular framework for this kind of tasks, in PHP) and Laravel (which is the most popular "classic HTTP syncronous" framework). Today's challenge: run a ReactPHP HTTP Server, but still leveraging the

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Teaching Moodle to Laravel

I had to integrate a Laravel application with a Moodle instance: certain users, under given circumstances, may generate a new course in Moodle, be enroled as teacher, and add other platform's users as students. The first step has been to setup a unified authentication, implementing a OAuth2 server in Laravel

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Laravel Broadcasting Unveiled

The documentation page about broadcasting events in Laravel to a websocket client is a bit obscure: if you use the Pusher third-party service it will eventually work out-of-the-box (I don't know, haven't tried), but if you choose to setup your own websocket server you will find yourself looking for hints

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Message in a Phone

I had to integrate SMS notifications in a project for a client, got a look to the API documentation of Skebby (SMS service popular among Italian developers), and started wondering about a Laravel package to integrate it into the native notifications system of the framework. More recently, another client asked