Laravel Activity Log Package

 Freek Van der Herten has created a new package that will allow you to easily setup an activity log for your users. It includes two methods of logging activities, a Model trait and an Activity::log() facade.

Not only can you log events but you can pull them out using:

use Spatie\Activitylog\Models\Activity;

$latestActivities = Activity::with('user')->latest()->limit(100)->get();

Of course this wouldn’t be complete without an automatic way of cleaning up old logs:

Activity::cleanLog();

The cleanLog sounds like a perfect pairing with the Laravel 5 Scheduler

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Reanimate – Let users “undo” a delete

Reanimate simplifies undoing of soft-deletes for your application. If you use Gmail then you may have seen this in action. After you send an email this notification pops up:

This package aims to make this easier by introducing an undoDelete method on a trait, so all your left with is adding a route and styling out your “undo” message. Check out the repo for full details.

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Two packages to easily install PHPCI in Laravel Homestead

 A few weeks ago Mike Bronner wrote a tutorial on how to install PHPCI, an open source continuous integration application, in Laravel Homestead.

His tutorial demonstrated the manual way of installing it by going through all the steps required. Since this post two new packages have been released to automate this process.

The first is homestead-phpci by Egor Pervuninski. This package uses Ansible to automatically install PHPCI.

Syed Irfaq R. had the same ideas and created a phpci-installer. This one differs as it uses a simple shell script to install everything you need.

Whether you prefer to follow a tutorial, use a shell script, or ansible installing phpci should be really simple now.

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Laravel 5 Hashids

 Laravel 5 Hashids is a wrapper to the Hashids project.

Hashids is a small open-source library that generates short, unique, non-sequential ids from numbers.

It converts numbers like 347 into strings like “yr8”, or array of numbers like [27, 986] into “3kTMd”.

You can also decode those ids back. This is useful in bundling several parameters into one or simply using them as short UIDs.

Here are a few examples on how this can be used inside your Laravel app:

// Encode integers.
Hashids::encode(4815162342);

// Decode strings.
Hashids::decode('1LLb3b4ck');

// Dependency injection example.
$hashidsManager->encode(911);

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ReactJS Laravel Package

 The ReactJS Laravel Package is designed to use components from your blade views:

With react-laravel you’ll be able to use ReactJS components right from your Blade views, with optional server-side rendering, and use them on the client-side with React due to unobtrusive JavaScript.

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Aimeos – Laravel Ecommerce Package

 Aimeos is a Laravel package that contains everything you need to create your new web shop including product catalogs, baskets, checkout, payment, order management, and e-mails.

The developer says one of its biggest advantages is the possibility to adapt everything to your needs, so it can be used not only for standard web shops but also for reservation systems, portals or anything that is organized in list and detail views. It’s also easy to replace or reorder all parts in the front-end only by configuration.

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Envoyer Deploy Command

 Dayle Rees created a new package that will allow you deploy with Envoyer from the command line.

With this package deploying is as simple as:

➜ php artisan envoyer:deploy
Deployment request successful!

You can also pass in a project flag for more fine-grained control:

➜ php artisan envoyer:deploy --project cakesandpies
Deployment request successful!

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Laravel Google2FA Package

 

Example Google 2fa in iOS

Here is a [package](https://github.com/antonioribeiro/google2fa) by Antonio Carlos Ribeiro for generating a One Time Password Authentication package, compatible with Google Authenticator.

Google2FA is a PHP implementation of the Google Two-Factor Authentication Module, supporting the HMAC-Based One-time Password (HOTP) algorithm specified in RFC 4226 and the Time-based One-time Password (TOTP) algorithm specified in RFC 6238.

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Laravel API Generator Package

 Laravel API Generator:

I enjoy creating API’s and I have worked on many projects that required them. But the problem I always faced was setting up all the boilerplate code. For example, each end point needs a migration, model, controller, repository, and on and on. I wanted a way to streamline this process and that is how this package was born.

This API generator allows you to use artisan commands to automatically generate all these files saving you time. Not only does it auto generate the files but it will set the namespaces.

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Mailchimp Laravel Package

 Laravel Newsletter is a new package that integrates with the Mailchimp API to allow subscribing, unsubscribing, and creating new campaigns.

Here are two examples to demonstrate how easy it is to subscribe and unsubscribe users:

Newsletter::subscribe('obi-wan.kenobi@stewjon.com')
Newsletter::unsubscribe('palpatine@empire.com')

One advantage to utilizing the API with Mailchimp is you can bypass the required double opt-in. Freek also says that more newsletter providers may be added over time. Read his post for more details and to get the package.

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70+ Socialite Providers

SocialiteProviders is a massive collection of 70+ OAuth 1 & 2 packages that extend Laravel Socialite.

This is going to be awesome for Laravel!

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Homestead Skeleton Package

Joe Ferguson released a new Homestead Skeleton that allows you to have a homestead environment per project.

The purpose of this is package is to easily provide the Laravel Homestead Vagrant environment without having to rely on using the homestead command line application. Another use case would be if you do not have / do not want PHP locally installed on your system.

I always liked the multiple projects in Homestead. When I first started with Vagrant having one for each project was confusing for me and I think that comes from the old glory days of using Mamp and Xampp. It’s really great that packages like this come out, that way it can be suited to your workflow.

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Pushman – Open Source Web Socket Manager

 Pushman is an open source web socket event manager. It allows you to push events over HTTP to your own Pushman server which will push event information down to a client via a Web Socket.

Pushman requires the ZeroMQ binary and it works great with Forge. Check out the GitHub Repo and a demo on their website.

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Nginx Push Stream for Laravel Event Broadcaster

The HTTP Pushstream Module for Nginx is a powerful Websocket system and this package helps create a bridge between the module and Laravel’s event broadcaster.

How it works:

Once you setup all your routes for the pub/sub requests to the HTTP routes in in the location directives for Nginx, then you’ll be able to quickly open a socket on your client use the pushstream.js and push your broadcasts out using websocket or long-polling.

The pub/sub requests are internally called by the GuzzleHttp package. The broadcasting.php config file will use the pushstream driver where you can control the HTTP requests to the to your pub/sub endpoints.

You can lock down your pub/sub nginx endpoints using the Access Key Module. Here you can configure the key

Visit the Laravel Pushstream Broadcaster documentation for more details.

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