Understanding Class Aggregation and Composition
If you spend anytime reading up on design patterns (I recommend this book), you'll come across terms like class association, aggregation, and composition. I recently stumbled »
DB instance without using facades in Laravel's Lumen
The point of Lumen is that it is light and fast, and so by default helpful tools like Eloquent and Facades are disabled. I like to »
.active classes in menus with Blade templates
In many of my projects, I have a layout blade file that each page extends. As part of the layout, there is a menu bar that »
Cleanly handle the routing for static pages in Laravel/Lumen
I'm working on a small project using Laravel's Lumen that requires a few basic static pages. I was looking for a quicker and more elegant way »
Limit the number of messages sent on one SMTP connection - Laravel 5
Many SMTP servers have limits on the number of messages that can be sent during any one SMTP connection. If you are sending mail using the »