I like to use select statements to return specific columns. But I was happy to find out that you can alias your columns just like in sql. Which can be make things a breeze, depending on what you are doing. Remember to use the dot syntax to specify a table for joined columns with the … Read more
If you want to know how many times your Laravel query is hitting the database you can use this snippet by @Tarasovych from StackOverflow. Pretty handy!
Laravel’s with() is an easy to use query builder tool to fetch relationship. Once you’ve established the relationship in your model file you can do this. But this query has the downside of hitting the database twice, or however many relationships you query. And if you’re running it on a big scale application, it can … Read more
What are some scraper options for Laravel? Well, Dusk works well if you’re just working in dev and testing but the following list can work for various cases. I’ve listed the four from what seems to be most reliable to least reliable depending on your use case. For instance, it seems like only panther and … Read more
I’m experiencing Heroku’s H18 errors uploading large files and passing it to an S3 instance. It happens itermittently. The Heroku docs say the following. Usually, an H18 indicates that a response has multiple stages – forinstance, streaming chunks of a large response – and that one of thosestages has thrown an error.https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/error-codes#h18-server-request-interrupted The docs further … Read more
When adding a column in a Laravel migration, you can add the column in a specific order by using the following format in your schema builder. Note that this only works with MySQL 🙁
This is a shoutout to Laravel’s Query Builder method distinct(). I feel sad and embarrassed that I didn’t know about it sooner. There are a lot of instances where I need to get a column’s unique values. And instead of using groupBy() and wasting a lot of resources. You can use distinct(), which will search … Read more
To validate an array of objects in Laravel, you can use the * identifier for each item in an array, and use the “.” syntax to point to the property. So the above would read, “Each item in the row array’s title is required,” etc.
Didn’t know Carbon parse has a ‘W‘ format week! Also, if the column is a date or datetime field you can skip Carbon::parse().
Need to convert a float or string into a currency format in Laravel? Here are two quick methods. Use PHP’s number_format() in your blade template. You can also add the following to your AppServiceProvider’s boot method. Good luck!
