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Spatie, the company where I work, recently released a Laravel package called laravel-sluggable. It automatically creates unique slugs when saving a model.

To install that package you just need to put the provided Spatie\Sluggable\HasSlug-trait on

Laravel 5.2 provides some nice additions to the framework. One handy feature that I don’t see listed in the release notes is that Collection now is macroable. Using it’s macro function you can easily extend Illuminate\Support\Collection

It's time to start writing about the new features in Laravel 5.2! You'll notice that many of these features are quicker and easier to learn and write up, so it may seem that it's a smaller release. But many of the features in 5.2 will

More and more of my work in Laravel lately has been creating APIs. I have a manual rate limiter class I've been using, but I've had a sense that there's a cleaner way to do it. Unsurprisingly, when Taylor set out to write a rate limite

If you've never used it, Laravel's route model binding has been around for a while, but Laravel 5.2 is about to make it even easier.

The basics of route model binding ---------------------------------

Let's assume that a common

Laravel 5.2 is now officially released!

There are many new features. Let's check them out: **Middleware Groups** ---------------------

Middleware groups is a really good feature that you may want. You can now apply group of middlware

Last week we looked at creating temporary urls to allow API clients to get uploaded files without exposing those files to the public internet (Returning secure files from an API with temporary URLs).

Uploading and returning files is a very common

Working with date and time in PHP is not the easiest or most clear of tasks. We have to deal with strtotime, formatting issues, lots of calculations, and more.

The nifty package called Carbon can help make dealing with date/time in PHP much easier