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Laravel - BLOB File Management System - Possible obstacles?

I'm working on this weird project where I need to upload huge files (500mb+) and store them in a postgresql table as a blob. Before you start telling me that storing files in the database is bad and ...
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Architecture: Validate polymorphic votes - Controller or Model?

I have a question because I don't want to do something wrong. I have a polymorphic relation called votes. Well, I want to save votes but I need to validate if a user already has voted. But even if, ...
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Unit testing Eloquent outside of Laravel

How can I unit test my Eloquent models when I'm using the ORM outside of Laravel? What I'm hoping to do it run tests on each model but somehow mock the database connection/query/builder(?) object. ...
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Like structure table with Laravel and showing the most popular content at top

I am using Laravel to creating a website, my users can post questions and other users can write their comments under the post, each comment have Up vote and Down vote, and users can voting for ...
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What pattern do I use and how do I implement it for one method that will be handled multiple ways

My scenario: I am creating an application that will allow me to create a mapping of redirect url's that will point from the request url (the url in the old ecommerce solution) to the target url. There ...
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Database integration of Rails and Laravel apps

I have some very small apps on a VPS running ruby on rails and a co-worker also have some of his own apps running on laravel at another VPS. So far we dont needed to share any data among the apps, but ...
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What should be the structure of a person to person store database?

I am going to create a person to person store with Laravel, a website where its users can share and sell their product or their mobile, TV, Computer, Shoes, Shirts, Books, Cars, Bags, Animal, etc. I ...
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Laravel relationships and database schema

I am playing around with Laravel and came across something in the documentation for defining 1 to 1 relationships between tables that I would like to get feedback on. The example in the docs is ...
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Should I use foreign keys in my database if I use laravel?

I'm creating a website with Laravel for the first time. I checked relationships documentation today and it seems that Laravel just uses simple SQL queries. class User extends Eloquent { public ...
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Managing customer-specific modules in a composer/PHP-based SaaS

I'm developing a business-to-business SaaS. I expect that most of my customers will be able to use my mainline product, and I intend to deploy it in an independent instance for each customer. Some ...
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How to avoid switches? [duplicate]

I use Laravel as a PHP framework, although the question is not exactly about laravel, more about structuring controller methods. I have a route to orders page. Depending on the user role I need to ...
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Properly design program database to reflect organization structure

I'm having trouble setting up my program's database the 'right' way. I was hoping you guys could give me suggestions on doing it properly. I am creating a database+client for a non-profit organization ...
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How does code produced on an open-source framework is affected by it's original license (MIT in this case)

I'm looking into building a new PHP commercial app for a client that will be hosted as a paid service and possibly resold to third parties with a non-compete clause. I've tested a few frameworks and ...
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Best pratice for return json in a REST application?

I'm starting now with REST (using Laravel 4.2) and Mobile (Android, iOS, SP, etc.) applications. Initially I'm checking if the request is ajax/json and then return a json response. But this ...
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When to use packages or Repositories in Laravel?

I'm a Laravel (PHP) developer, and new with DI, Packages (workbench) and Repositories (Pattern). I want to know about the best concept/methodology for a more flexible design; ie. the project can grow ...
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Is testability and mockability really that important in web development?

I'm reading this series on Laravel, and it's in great depth dealing with making everything testable, using Repository instead of just using the Models, using Dependency Injection and other obscure ...
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Laravel 4: Binding/linking two users together

I'm building a unittest system. At some point I want to bind two users together in order to make an assignment for those two. So when the admin chooses to link two students together the system should ...
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How can I team up two MVC frameworks without having them fight each other? [closed]

I'm creating a CRUD-based web project, and am thinking about using a server side MVC framework (such as CodeIgniter or Laravel) in tandem with a client side MVC framework (such as AngularJS). Is this ...
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I'm thinking to CSRF protect all public AJAX requests that return JSON, but I have some concerns

I'm thinking to CSRF protect all public AJAX requests that return JSON, because what's to prevent another site from spoofing the AJAX header and using the JSON as if it were a public API? I think CSRF ...
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Customizing configuration for PHP will Laravel 4 IoC be useful?

This topic has been discussed in this post: Customizing configuration with Dependency Injection However - I couldn't find one for PHP syntax and since one of the answers was to use a specific ASP.net ...
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Need help modelling a User/Project/Task relationship

So I'm creating a very simple project/task management application in Laravel 4 and I'm not sure how these relationships would work. I have a Project, Task and User model. A User can own a Project or ...
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How do you handle multiple developer configuration in a project?

I've been thinking lately about how I handle config changes between multiple developers on a project. Specifically here about a Laravel project in PHP, but I guess this applies largely to all ...