There was a time when APM was all anyone needed. Older monolithic web services were monitored with application performance monitoring (APM) tools. These tools provide detailed insights into how the web service performs and can alert administrators to potential issues before they become widespread. So APM brought us out of the era of having your...
27 March, 2023
Dispatcher – Laravel scheduled tasks
Dispatcher is a Laravel artisan command scheduling tool used to schedule artisan commands within your project so you don’t need to touch the crontab.This sounds brilliant for shared hosts and on-premise apps. I can think of a few situations where I’ve needed th...
Generate Migrations from an existing database
Generate Laravel Migrations from an existing database, including indexes and foreign keys!This looks great. I’ve been working on a side project that was developed with another framework and it didn’t have any migrations. I started fresh with new migrations on a separate database. Then the plan is to build an artisan command to sync the data once...
Laravel DB Normalizer
This Laravel package allows you to easily swap out your repository implementations, by providing a unified interface to your database resul...
Baum – Create Nested Sets with Eloquent
Baum is an implementation of the Nested Set pattern for Laravel 4’s Eloquent ORM.In the past I haven’t been a fan of nested sets because of the complexity involved in working with them. This looks to help alleviate a lot of the pa...
Laravel Package Installer
Are you tired of manually editing your config/app.php to add service providers and aliases? If so Ryan has your back: " "" "> " "";">This package allows for quick and easy installation of supported Laravel 4 packages. This packages installs packages and adds any necessary ServiceProviders and Aliases.The only...
Revisionable now supports being used as a trait
Another hugely request and major update to revisionable, to allow using it as a trait. Which means it can now be used in conjunction with other eloquent based packages like Ardent. While still catering for backwards compatibility for sites on PHP < ...
Laravel Generators
Jeff Way just announced v2: " "" "> " "";">Update your Laravel 4 generators package to 2.0. Big rewrite, with bunches of tests. https://t.co/cPnpJIiYJc— Laracasts (@laracasts) March 3, 2014These generators are one of the first things you should install when starting an application. So handy and so...
Announcing Cashier
How painful is billing? To be honest I find all billing systems rather cumbersome and dreadful. Granted they have improved over the old days when all you had to choose from was Paypal and Authorize.net but even today none of them are super clear and always a pain to setup.Taylor just released a brand new Laravel package named Cashier to...
Laravel Storage
A simple filesystem abstraction package for Laravel 4.This looks really nice on the surface. I haven’t had a chance to use it but have an app I’m working on now that needs exactly what this includes. Glad to see the API on this so simple:Storage::upload($_FILE['avatar'], 'user/avatar.jpg');That’s the way it should ...
RoboTask – PHP task runner
Modern and simple PHP task runner inspired by Grunt and Rake aimed to automate common tasksLooking at the list of tasks it seems like it has all the basics in place for a useful to...
Laravel Blade on Steroids
Lots of cool extensions to Blade to help with common tasks. The Automatic command generation stuff is interesti...
PHP Variables to JavaScript
Often, you’ll find yourself in situations, where you want to pass some server-side string/array/collection/whatever to your JavaScript. Traditionally, this can be a bit of a pain – especially as your app grows.This is a new package from Jeffrey Way at Laracasts that will allow you to easily pass php variables to your JavaScript.This...
Foreman – scaffolding your Laravel applications
Brian Webb: " "" "> " "";">Foreman is a Laravel application scaffolding tool that automates common tasks you typically perform with each new Laravel app you create. The directives you want Forman to perform are outlined in a JSON based template file.This seems like a neat utility. Brian shows a more real world...