Laravel has a beautiful support to include packages. This allows us to extend the functionalities of the framework to the project needs. With this we can easily have support of packages generic for PHP or specific to Laravel. One such PHP package that comes out of box with Laravel is…

Laravel offers the Illuminate\Support\Collections as an ultimate powerful tool to work with arrays. Also the results of all Illuminate\Database\Eloquent queries are the instance of the Collection class. This makes collections a very important component of the Laravel ecosystem. I have couple of times performed operations in Collections which were too complicated to…

I am a huge fan of the Homestead development environment. Among all the other benefits that it offers the robust set of pre-installed packages makes working with it a huge delight. Also the peace of mind that comes with it being a complete separate installation not affecting resources on other…

Events provide a simple architecture and better code organisation. They open up a whole new dimension of interaction with the application code.   In Laravel, we have Eloquent model events which are fired when we perform some operation on the model.   For simpler understanding I usually classify them into two…