It's this time of the year again - the end of the year is coming up fast, so why not step back and take a look at what we, as a PHP community, have achieved this year? For these statistics, I used the free GitHub Archive data in combination with Google BigQuery, which lets you process 1TB of data…
I am currently in the middle of working on a new BotMan feature - a frontend widget that you can embed into your website to make it easier to connect your website visitors with your own self-hosted chatbot solution. The backend / PHP side is already working and leverages the BotMan web driver, which is basically just an API that you can use to interact with your chatbot.
This guide will show you how to configure Slack and get started with writing your first Laravel-based Slack bot using my PHP Slack Bot API.
When working with Laravel, we have multiple ways of implementing real time messages / event broadcasting to our application, thanks to the Redis or Pusher integration in the framework.
Here's a quick tipp, if you happen to use the Laravel Baum package and you have large nested structures. In my case, we have a hierarchy of over 1000 entries that we need to display as a JSON / Array structure. The whole API call used to take nearly 7 seconds - so I began some detective work and…
Testing a Laravel application really is an easy task - the "Integrated" package from Jeffrey Way, that later got merged into the core framework is fantastic and helps you with the otherwise cumbersome task of testing and interacting with your application. But still - are you actually using tests?
If you're building a product, for example a SaaS as a side project, you might come to a point where you need more than the basic Authentication handling from Laravel.