Working with dates, we need to display formatted dates to users and store dates in the database in a specific format. Laravel provides a few ways to implement this functionality like an accessor by defining a custom function or by converting the date every time. For this example, we will define the accessor function into
Sometimes we need to delete all the data from a table. Some tables are just to store temporary data. So we need to delete or empty the table using a specific time or event. Laravel or Eloquent has many methods from query to static from removing all records from the table like DB class with
The common data storage method in Laravel is collection. The Collection class allows you to chain its methods to perform fluent mapping and reduce the underlying array. It provides most methods like array methods. There are many methods to check whether the collection is empty or not with examples. Let’s know more about them one
Laravel uses collection classes as common data storage. But while creating APIs JSON is an idle data type to return response data instead of a collection. In this tutorial, you will learn how to convert collection data into JSON strings. Those data can be a model instance or even a manually created collection. We will
In every application, data validation before executing further logic is required. Laravel provides an easy way to implement data or user input validation using its validator methods. Laravel has a special request class concept for validation. Which separate validation logic and actual logic. But sometimes working with Laravel request validation class, we need to return
In enterprise-level applications sometimes we need to restore deleted data or need to take a backup of that data. With Larave soft delete, we can easily soft delete and restore deleted data and in addition to methods, we can automatically filter deleted data while querying. In Laravel, the Soft Delete trait handles all the operations
Sometimes we need to get an array of database results or collection IDs. There are many ways to get this output like using loops or array functions. But the pluck() and modelKeys() methods are proper to get an array of IDs. Let’s assume you are using a HasMany relation and you need to check whether
Laravel provides rich error-handling mechanisms but while working with APIs we need to get error responses into JSON data instead of error pages. While building a Laravel application for the web as well as APIs we need to place different logic for some endpoints while getting users, in the web we need to render a
Working with images can be easily done using Laravel. But if you use Laravel Spatie Media Library then you can easily bind images to multiple models and perform image manipulation functions like image conversion. If there is a requirement to convert and save a resized image version while uploading the file, like generating a thumbnail
Finding data by ID or IDs is commonly used. Here we search or query the primary key of the model and get data. In this tutorial, we will see some methods to get data by multiple IDs. To get a database record from Laravel Eloquent by ID or Multiple IDs, we can use of Model
