Caffeine For Laravel is a package designed to prevent users CSRF token from timing out on your site while filling out a form.
Mike, the package creator, wanted to have a secure way to make life easier for users who take their time filling out forms by keeping the token awake through a behind the scenes ajax call.
StydeNet Html package is a collection of Laravel PHP classes designed to generate common HTML components, such as:
This is an extension to the Laravel Collective HTML package.
Laravel OAuth 2.0 server bridge package is an authorization server and resource server for both Laravel and Lumen.
This package is a bridge from thephpleague OAuth Server by Alex Bilbie.
Laravel Doctrine is a project aimed to be a drop-in Doctrine2 implementation for Laravel 5+.
Laravel Doctrine offers the following features:
This is very much a pre-release version. As long as Laravel Spark is not stable, neither is this package. Please test on a new branch of your Laravel app, so in case it doesn’t work as expected you won’t lose anything. If it does work, just PR the branch into your release branch for your app once you are satisfied.
You can find the package on Github with instructions.
The PHP Package Checklist is a project by Jonathan Reinink that is designed to help you go through all the steps to create a new PHP Package.
There’s a lot that goes into a successful PHP package beyond simply having some useful code. The following checklist will help ensure that your package is taken seriously by the rest of the PHP community.
The site steps you through 14 steps and includes notes and recommendations for each step. A nice site to bookmark for when you are ready to release your next package.
Eloquence is a package to extend Laravel 5’s base Eloquent models and it has just hit version 2.
Some of the features of the package include:
Version 2 features API improvements, a sum cache model behaviour, and a simplification of all behaviours and their uses.
WordPress is one of the most popular open source applications and that means many people are comfortable using its admin to manage their site. There are times when building out a site this is advantageous as it prevents you from having to retrain the user on how to manage content, menus, photos, and more. A popular way of setting up a site like this is to use WordPress as the admin and then build out the front end in a framework such as Laravel.
In fact, I did this very thing here on Laravel News and you can take a look at how to use WordPress as a backend for a Laravel here. I used the WP-API and built my own importer but if you’d like to see some off the shelf solutions take a look at the following packages:
Corcel uses Laravel Eloquent models to manage retrieving content directly from your WordPress database. Once installed you can use the same comfortable syntax you are used to:
// All published posts
$posts = Post::published()->get();
$posts = Post::status('publish')->get();
// A specific post
$post = Post::find(31);
It includes support for posts, post types, taxonomies, pages, categories, and attachments. The one downside is the package is still under development.
WordPressToLaravel syncs data from a wordpress*.com* blog. It’s designed to run as a scheduled cron job through Laravel Scheduler. Then it will automatically download and import post data into your local database.
Once setup you will be responsible for building out your own models, controllers, and views to integrate with your database, and some advantages to utilizing the wordpress.com system is they automatically handle WordPress upgrades, assets CDN, and content can be added through the website, mobile app, or desktop app.
The drawback to this package is it is limited to just post data, it doesn’t support categories or tags.
WP Eloquent is a package that creates a wrapper for WordPress database tables. It includes models for Posts, Comments, Post Meta, User, and User Meta. Once installed here is an example of it’s usage:
use WeDevs\ORM\WP\Post as Post;
Post::type('page')->get()
Post::status('publish')->get()
Post::type('page')->status('publish')->get()
WP Eloquent also works with the Laravel DebugBar and doesn’t create any extra database connections.
laravel-wp-api integrates directly with the WordPress JSON REST API for self hosted sites.
After installing you have access to a WpApi alias which makes it easy to query for data:
$post = WpApi::post($slug);
$catPosts = WpApi::category_posts($slug, $page);
Of course, the three packages above aren’t the only ways of integrated the two. Here is a collection of tutorials for integrating manually:
As you can see there are a number of ways of integrating WordPress and Laravel and depending on your goals I’m sure you can find an existing package or tutorial to help you implement the two systems together.
The company Spatie released a new open source package to handle queue job failure notifications. When one fails it will send you an email with the details and as a bonus, it has Slack integration. It does this by hooking into the JobFailed event in Laravel 5.2
In the announcement post, Freek Van der Herten says that this was built so you don’t have to manually keep an eye on your failed jobs table.
Installation is through Composer and it comes with a simple config file. The email taps into Laravel’s built-in mail system and Slack requires the maknz/slack package from Regan McEntyre.
Freek Van der Herten today announced the v3 release of the Spatie Backup manager. This release adds a whole host of new features including email/slack notifications, Artisan health checks, and more.
Here is a screenshot of the health check in action:
Freek says this package work with PHP 5 because of how important backups are for everyone. Over time, this will be phased out into a PHP 7 only package.
Check out his announcement post for all the details.
