In this example, we will create a simple contact form. When users submit those details instead of storing those data we will directly send it to the responsible person using Google Mail. Sending an email is an essential part of every web application and there are plenty of ways or services to send E-mail in
Sometimes your application needs to run administrative tasks periodically on the server. Whether you want to send out emails to your users or clean up the database’s temporary tables at the end of the day, you will need a task scheduling mechanism to take care of the tasks. Laravel provides an inbuilt scheduler and its
Laravel provides a built-in feature to flag database rows as deleted without deleting them from the database. In this article, we will see how soft delete and restore works in Laravel. Why Use Soft Delete? Sometimes we need to delete some data from the database but we will need those data again when required or
Laravel provides in-built functionality for caching. A cache is used for better application performance. Laravel has a predefined function for handling cache operations like creating retrieving and deleting the cache. Before starting let’s understand cache : What is cache? A cache is a special storage space for temporary files that makes a device, browser, or
In this example, you will get user location information based on their IP address. You need to install a package called stevebauman/location. The stevebauman/location is an excellent library for detecting a user’s location by their IP Address. It has ready-to-use methods for getting user’s location data. By using this package you can get below information:
Composer is an application-level package manager for the PHP programming language that provides a standard format for managing dependencies of PHP software and required libraries. As a PHP developer, you will need to add or remove some functionality daily. These Composer packages can be anything that saves you time and provides you with proper functionality.
What is Database Seeding? Database seeding is the process of seeding a database with actual or dummy data, according to Wikipedia. Seeding a database is the process of providing an initial collection of data to a database after setup. It’s especially beneficial when we need to populate the database with data that we’ll need later.
Suppose we have created a JSON file for a particular task like a country list and we need to use it at multiple locations and process some operations like sorting, searching, filtering, etc. So we can handle it more easily and save processing time with databases instead of files. But converting JSON Data into the
Debugging is a helpful feature for developers to identify the causes of issues. Most of the modern application frameworks provide you the option to enable debug mode. Laravel also provides a good debugger to help the developer identify problems before going to production. But be careful with debug mode because if it’s on in the
Debugging is a helpful feature for developers to identify the causes of issues. Nowadays it’s easy to debug applications because most of the modern application frameworks provide you with inbuilt debug functionality. The Symfony Framework implements by default a useful debugging bar. Laravel Debugbar package to integrate PHP Debug Bar with Laravel. It includes a
