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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Repeating HTML, minus a few class and array key differences
I feel like this code is pretty sloppy and can be accomplished in a foreach loop. But it's a bit complex using a multi-dimensional array.
Can this be cleaner? You ...
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Accessing Data inside Presentation Layer from API: Laravel 5.2.27
I wrote the code to fetch the JSON Data. For that I tried to do this in 2 projects.
First Laravel project which has API code for database interaction only.
Sample code in API controller
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Profile picture upload method in Laravel 5.2
I am a Laravel newbie so please forgive me for my code... I have a method, in a Laravel controller, that updates the current logged user profile (...
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Dynamic reports to Laravel view into HTML table
The getDynamicTeacherCount function is generating number-based reports from the table that I have in database and the ...
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Laravel bulk insert optimization
I'm currently using a make shift INSERT on DUPLICATE UPDATE function that relies on a DB raw query from eloquent. I'm looking to improve the quality of the code and the speed. Please take a look
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Generating statistical reports
I want to generate statistical reports and I have many different where clauses so the function became long. I did much refactoring, but it is not enough. Can ...
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Eloquent methods to calculate the average rent of apartments
I am working on a Laravel 5.1 website where I am counting the average rent of apartments in a specific area. Besides of that I want to get the average rent by amount of rooms in the apartment. The ...
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Proper PHP array walkthrough
I am working on a ticket reserving system right now. The users can reserve seats in a cinema for every movie. Whilst my code works, it is not the fastest. When a customer buys ticket (seat(s)) I check ...
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Method on Laravel model to find courses related to a course
I have a Laravel project that has courses. I want to take the related courses from one.
Should I create the method in the model (the php class) or in the controller?
Currently I have this code in ...
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Use of HTML (view) in a constructor
I have this constructor (from a Service) where I'm setting a few variables, but two of them include HTML. Is there a best way to set those values, maybe by creating a method in the class to set them?
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Laravel 5 controller to list appointments by date range and by label
I am starting to get into OOP using PHP and MVC. I just want to know if this code is good practice. Is this how I should be using my controller and model, in its simplest form?
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Compare 2 Different database Table
I have php function that compares two different database table. Any suggestion on improving it.
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4 database queries, multiple loops in loops, slow processing time
The octoberCMS(based on laravel) controller below is what I use to select the lowest price in 4 pricelists in the given daterange.
Prices can vary and it's not guaranteed that the more expensive ...
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Calculating a quality score of something based on attributes
I'm willing to have a way to calculate a quality score of an object; in this case an addressbook contact.
I believe there are way better approaches to do this and I'd like to hear your references.
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Class that generates records after performing business logic
I wrote a small class that does a database lookup and it generates a collection/Array. The Collection is resorted based on values returned from the database. Finally, the records can be retrieved ...
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Handle data insertion after validation
I have an application that has a form. Validation and data insertion works fine. However, it bulks out my controller. I've always been told skinny controllers.
For example:
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Laravel 5 Search
I think I could improve this code a lot, especially this part:
if($month !== "") {
AppointmentsController:
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Extended Laravel Eloquent models to add filters to model setters
One of the tasks I find myself doing repeatedly is to filter the incoming inputs that will be stored in models. Examples of this include trimming, removing repeated or unnecessary pre/suffixes, commas ...
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Resumé builder app
Wrote this an hour or so after learning some basics.
Took me a while because I had to write it in a way to fit the previous structure of my page. Basically, there are three rows of data. There has to ...
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Laravel API design
I've been designing and coding my Laravel API boilerplate for couple days now, and I'd like to hear some advice/improvement hints!
I'm pretty satisfied with the result, but I'm also aware, there ...
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eCommerce project using the Repository pattern
I am currently working on an eCommerce project in Laravel 5.1. I have implemented Repository Pattern by learning from this site only for 1 model, namely, ...
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Insert and attach tag to the post in same time
I created a form with title, body and tag input and there are 3 tables: posts, tags and post_tag.
Now I use this function to add new tags and attach them to the post
postcontroller.php
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Laravel API class design
I am building my first Laravel web app and I have created a class to handle API requests for a model called Quote. In what ways can the code be improved or reduced?
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Basic sign-up method, testable and with try/catch [closed]
I am learning how to implement testing and try/catch statements into my code. I have a Laravel application with the following ...
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Laravel controller for a grocery list
What I have is a grocery list. Once I select a grocery by ticking the checkbox, I can select an amount for that product and a unit (unit is referred to in my below code as group). Once I am done, I ...
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Exception Handler on a Switch
I am working on rewriting an application in Laravel 5.1. I am new to the exception handling technique introduced in 5.0. I have overlooked taking advantage of throwing/catching exceptions frequently ...
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Selecting orders submitted by a user, segregated by status
I have recently started using Laravel as my chosen framework. It is my first time using a framework. As I have made progress through my project, my controller methods have started to increase in size. ...
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Laravel Controller including sort and search
I am using this code on my own personal website (my personal administration site) so it doesn't need any security and so on. I am not into learning everything about that yet, and although I do know a ...
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The correct place to implode array - MVC and Repositories concept
I am writing an application with the repositories concept in php with laravel framework.
In my controller I have this method:
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Laravel user permission system
I wanted to create a simple and easy to use permissions system. The ones I've found on the Internet would need to attach every permission to a route manually (e.g. Entrust).
My idea is to build a ...
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Multi-User Roles in Laravel
I am very new to Laravel. I am building a website where multiple users can have one or more roles. I have a users table and a user_roles table. Each ...
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Collection of $_POST data
I have a backend API that I'm sure can a refactor, but I'm not exactly sure how to avoid repetition between the store method and the ...
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Dynamic/Global Business Days Calculation
I have a problem in that I need a formula which calculates business days around the world. For example, in the UK we have 5 day weeks, but in the Middle East they have 6 day weeks. Also, perhaps we ...
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Passing standard data through serviceprovider
I am using Laravel 5. To pass the users his favorites and permalink, I edited the AppServiceProvider. I was wondering if my solution is the most reasonable ...
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Laravel 4 search function
I am using this code in my controller and would like to know if this is good code to use or if I can write it better, or more compact, and so on. I am just trying to learn from this. It does work, so ...
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eCommerce web appliation
I am making an eCommerce web application using the Laravel 5 framework.
I have created a Categories controller for the administrator and with the following actions ...
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URL link SEO and security using Laravel
I'm trying to figure out what the best way to do this is.
I have a part on my website where people can search for a particular card based on multiple different factors. Like the name of the card, ...
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Laravel time-punching database structure
I am trying to build a database structure for a time punching system. What I'm trying to figure out is if what I have is the ideal structure, or if something else exists that I'm overlooking.
I want ...
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Controller to manage athletes
I would appreciate if you could give me some advice about the code below. I am a student learning PHP programming and programming fundamentals. I have learned a lot from Stack Overflow but there are ...
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Routing for a Laravel 5 e-commerce site
I am new here and learning Laravel 5 on my own. I want to get reviewed on the following routes.php code.
My question are:
Have I made any mistakes by doing this? If yes, then what could be the ...
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Laravel photo uploader class
I'm trying to separate logic from the controller, so I created this Upload class. It is not a big class, just a class so that the controller doesn't know about the ...
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Image upload handling in Laravel
I'm trying to create a handler to set the profile picture for the user. Don't worry about the validation as I will clean that up, because that's for testing purposes. This is how far I went. I'm using ...
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Decoupling payment classes
I have several classes for payment handling, I separate these classes into directories like below. Actually I'm going to use it for Laravel project but to make it simple, maybe we can talk as if it's ...
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Laravel controller for a commenting system
Can someone review my Controller? I should follow these guidelines:
Code should be written with MVC pattern and to use OOP.
The code now works fine, but I need to improve it. Also, should I use ...
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Laravel routes.php optimization
My goals are:
Have 2 main domains .com and .dev for production and local installations
Have 2 main subdomains. One for the site and one of the application
Site must be public and application always ...
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Laravel 5 Dependency Injecting a Repository into a controller, and depedency injecting an entity into repository
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I have a Restful API that pushes all /api/{version}/{Repository} into my ResourceV{1}Controller depending on the ...
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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 tried to implement the Repository pattern for my project:
MemberController.php -- this one is a bit too long and has repetitive code
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Unit tests for a Laravel site
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 ...
