December 2, 2020

Encryption and hashing for Laravel developers: Part 1 - Symmetric Encryption

Hey all. Before I dive in, I would like to start by saying I am by no means a cryptography expert and my knowledge on this topic is very limited. I'm not presenting myself as highly skilled at cryptography and should not be giving advice on anything cryptography related. It's also important to note...

November 5, 2020

Recreating Laravel Forge atomic locks example to prevent overlaps for crucial tasks

Job middleware is a pretty cool newer(ish) feature of Laravel. It works just like regular HTTP middleware. Every job that has a registered middleware will run through each middleware in the list before it's handle method is called. Which means you can do all funky stuff with it....

August 13, 2018

Laravel Behind the Scenes: Supports

Usually, your project will contain some code that needs to be reused throughout the codebase. So does the Laravel framework itself. And it's a good practice to extract that code into reusable classes. Think of arrays and "dot" notation. Laravel allows you to get certain value from a nested array...

June 6, 2018

Laravel Behind the Scenes: Interfaces

Digging through the Laravel's source code, I came across this little piece of code that you've probably seen before: That's a lot of interfaces and I thought this may be a good topic since some of these interfaces are implemented in various classes throughout the entire framework and for a good...

May 26, 2018

Laravel Behind the Scenes: Lifecycle - Response

I'm Josip and I've been working with Laravel for quite some time and I want to help others out figure out how this amazing framework works. During that process, I'll also show you some cool tricks that are happening behind the scenes. In this series of blog posts, I will try to explain how Laravel...