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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 try and keep it light when I am using Lumen, so I opt to not turn them on. If you, like me, are used to using the facade...

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 has has a different style for a link if you are currently on that page. If you are using bootstrap or foundation, if you apply the css class...

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 to define each route and felt like I was repeating myself with every $app->get() function I was writing. I extracted the pages into an array and...

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 built in Mail class with Laravel, any messages sent within a request cycle are sent using one SMTP connection by default. There is actually a quick and easy...

Update: If you are working on Laravel 5.1, there is support for this right out of the box: See this post for more information I've been working with Laravel 5 lately, and it's great. But with a new version comes new defaults. CSRF protection for instance, is now always active with the implementation...