Laravel is an open-source PHP web development framework created by Taylor Otwell. Laravel helps you create applications using simple, expressive syntax.
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Formatting database results to be consumed as multiple tables by the view
In the code below, $rows is the result of database query. In the view that consumes this, I need to break the results into a separate table for each vendor.
The below creates a structure that allows ...
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Controller for repository of members
I am still new to Laravel, just learned the Repository pattern.
I tried to implement it on my project, here's the result:
MemberController.php -- this one is a bit ...
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UnitTesting: Is this TestCase overkill?
Is this Test Case overkill?
I am new to Unit Testing so I am learning and I'd love to hear your opinion about it.
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Instagram-like news feed display
I am writing an application that shows a news feed, much like Instagram. For this, I have a function in the model to select the feeds as shown in the code. For some reason, this runs quite slow and I ...
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Object instantiation with multiple parameters
I'm trying to create a little block presenter for Laravel which displays blocks of content in certain positions. I have 2 classes, BlockFactory and ...
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Laravel controller for form validation skinny
I'm trying to make controllers skinny as possible. I use repositories for accessing the database and I use Services to do other stuff. In this case, I use it to insert a new post to the database. For ...
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Immediately send redirect response, preserving session data
This question is for Laravel 4 only, as the relevant parts are completely refactored in the upcoming Laravel 5.
I have written an helper function for validation, so I only have to put this in ...
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Product page filter
I am still learning Laravel and I am in the process of creating a small shopping website.
On the left hand side there are a series of filters that appear depending on what products have come back ...
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Possible improvements script that receives, formats and data persists
The code snippet below, receives data from a form, formats and inserts into the database.
This code snippet is located in a controller and the insertion is done in a 'repository' to manipulate data ...
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Laravel Testing: Is this testing too much of the inner workings?
So I'm using laravel for a project and have a InvoiceRepository and a InvoiceRepositoryTest and I have written the test first ...
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CRUD implementation using Laravel 4
I just started using Laravel 4. I read some tutorials on how to implement CRUD in Laravel, and I was able to develop a portion of it. What I am going to show you is more on Controller and Eloquent ...
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Laravel Pagination: a new one adapted from an old Dreamweaver extension
I'm new to Laravel and I'm trying to port the most important old-procedural-code snippets and libraries I collect in some years
I missed a nice Pagination I had in an old Dreamweaver extension and I ...
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Effective usage of multiple joins in Eloquent dependent on variable
I have an Eloquent model that has multiple types of joins that is used to filter out different request to grab the data of movies e.g.: Actors, ...
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Returning JSON depending on the route_id
I have a controller that has a purpose of returning json depending on the route_id being passed from the route (Using laravel). There's a point in my code where I ...
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Controller method - Ajax request
I'm quite new to Laravel, and I'm not sure what am I doing is the best practice.
I'd like to return JSON if the request is Ajax, or return a view otherwise. This is the way I made it, and it works ...
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Clean up / refactor this store() method
I'm new to Laravel and trying to figure out how I can reduce/refactor this store() call in my SessionController.
Basically, the ...
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Optimizing Laravel Eloquent multiple joins
The following is working and readable SQL for Eloquent that I have created. The downside is that it looks more like a 1:1 with SQL and I don't think I'm using the full potential of Eloquent. I thought ...
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Controller for handling user registration
I spent a lot of time doing Go Horse Extreme programming, but now I want to be a better person.
How can I make this method smaller, better, more OOP?
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Laravel - Repository and Entity patterns
I've spent quite a bit of time studying the repository and entity patterns and this is what I came up with. I would appreciate it if you could post suggestions and critique.
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Laravel - lots of dependency injection
I have the following UserServiceProvider and I'm wondering whether so much dependency injection is overkill:
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Social user login
This is my first Laravel package. It uses hybrid Auth package to authenticate users using their social network accounts. It can retrieve information to store in a local database.
Its purpose is to ...
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Simple application to experience encapsulation
Looking at the code, is this a proper example of encapsulation?
additionalComputer.php (class)
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Laravel model and controller interaction
I want to know if I'm going about creating and calling two functions from my model to my controller in the simplest and cleanest way.
Model:
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Laravel 4 clean code review of users controller and model, trying to maintain MVC structure
I'd like you to review my attempt at creating an authorization class and let me know if there is re-factoring to be done and/or how I can make the code cleaner and abide by the MVC structure.
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How do I reduce the if..else soup in this Controller function?
The processing is the same, but the response type differs based on whether it's an AJAX request or not.
One way I can think of is to store all the response calls inside closure functions, and return ...
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DB Query within foreach
I'd like a general opinion on my piece of code (which does exactly what I want it to do). I feel like I'm using bad practices, like a DB query within a foreach ...
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Multi-page form attempt
I have just started playing around with L4 and would like to get some feedback on how I implemented a multi-page form
Here are my routes:
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