This is a question that frequently arises. Someone will ask me “Oh, you [work with/prefer/love] Laravel?” and my answer to that is a simple yes. What baffles me is the very frequent follow up quest...
Custom pagination in Laravel 4
The default Laravel pagination is built for Twitter Bootstrap 2.0 and I believe that it will be updated to use Twitter Bootstrap 3.0 in Laravel 4.1 (not sure though). So what happens when you want ...
Get raw POST data in Laravel
I recently stumbled upon an interesting problem when trying to retrieve the raw POST body in Laravel. This happened when I was sending POST/PUT requests from AngularJS to a REST API that was built ...
NPath complexity and cyclomatic complexity explained
If you happen to be using PHP Mess Detector (which you should for any larger project) you have probably stumbled upon these two, but do you really know what they stand for? NPath complexity and cyc...
Book recommendations for developers
To me it’s essential as a developer to read books, and not just looking things up on the internet. The depth of a book can not be compared to almost anything you find on the web. Keeping your knowl...
Laravel & Jenkins: Continuous integration
I have published an updated version of this post since this one is a bit outdated. The new post deals with PHP applications in general, and can easily be applied for continuous integration with Lar...