Part 7 – Basic Validations Now that we have the basic CRUD operators setup, it’s time to add some business logic through model validation. This is usually done at the validation level of a model. In the case of Burgerpedia, here are the validation rules that we will be adding: Every hamburger must have a […] Keep Reading
Part 6 – Creating The Controllers Now that we’ve seen the basic of setting up a route. We can start getting into controllers. So far, we have a route inside our route file with a specific logic. What we will do is take the logic out of the route file and put it inside a […] Keep Reading
Part 5 – Setting up the Routes Now that our models are setup, we are now ready to begin configuring the routes. This is basically the part where we tell the application what to do once it receives an HTTP request. All Laravel routes are defined in your route files, which are located in the […] Keep Reading
Part 4 – Building the Models and the Relationships Now that our database has been created, we need to build the models that will interact with the database. Once again, this can all be done through artisan. If you go inside the app folder of your Laravel install, you will that there is the default […] Keep Reading
Part 3 – Seeding the Database Tables Now that we’ve created the database tables, we are ready to pre-populate them with data. That’s when artisan’s database seeders come into play. Seeders allow you to populate your database with test data so that you can be up and running quickly. To do so, we will use […] Keep Reading
Part 2 – Creating the Database Tables using Migrations Now that we have Laravel installed, we are ready to setup our databases and create our database tables. We will modify the env file to connect to our database. In my case, I am using a MySQL database but laravel has support for other database drivers […] Keep Reading
Part 1: Installing Laravel The first thing that we need to do is get the latest version of Laravel using composer. In case you did not know, The Laravel framework utilizes Composer for installation and dependency management. If you haven’t already installed composer, start by installing Composer. Once you have composer installed, you are ready […] Keep Reading
In this tutorial, I will get you up-and-running with Laravel 5, AngularJS and Bootstrap by building a real-world web application. We will be building a pretty advanced CRUD (CREATE, READ, UPDATE, and DELETE) application called BurgerPedia. BurgerPedia can be thought of as a Wikipdia clone for hamburgers. So users can add a hamburger and the […] Keep Reading
From the Australian fansite Ozformers and its user griffin, we have some recent Hasbro Australia promotional posters for the Transformers Titans Return line, featuring Powermaster Optimus Prime, Fortress Maximus and Galvatron. There is a story behind the pictures, and both can be viewed mirrored below – check them out! Unfortunately we can’t (legally) obtain the […] Keep Reading
I use WordPress’ custom fields often for many of my projects. In most cases, I only use a single unique key for the custom field. But on a recent project, I had to use the same custom field key multiple times on the same post. In my case, I had a post that stores multiple […] Keep Reading