Taming the Snoo: Playing with the Reddit API
Reddit is a social networking, entertainment, and news website where the content is almost exclusively submitted by users. According to this report, in February 2016 Reddit had 36 million user...
View ArticleSourcehunt: Idea of the Month and 6 Interesting Repos!
It's time for our monthly hunt for new open source libraries to use and contribute to! If you're new to Sourcehunt, it's our monthly post for promoting open source projects that seem interesting or...
View ArticleHow to Secure Laravel Apps with 2FA via SMS
While everyone is concerned about their application's security, few take it seriously and take the plunge. The first thing you'll notice when learning about this is that two factor authentication (2FA)...
View ArticleCrash Course: Continuous Deployment with Semaphore CI
Software is playing an ever bigger role in how companies compete across a broad range of industries. Large organizations are finding that their current approaches to managing software are limiting...
View ArticleHow Can I Use Laravel Envoy or Deployer with SemaphoreCI?
Test automation, continuous integration, and continuous delivery are quite widespread in the community now. This brought to life multiple services trying to make the process more enjoyable and less...
View ArticleEasily Add Social Logins to Your App with Socialite
Laravel Socialite is a package developed to abstract away any social authentication complexities and boilerplate code into a fluent and expressive interface. Socialite only supports Google, Facebook,...
View ArticleReal-Time Laravel Notifications and Follows? Sure, with Stream!
With Laravel, it's pretty easy to create newsfeed sites, blogs, or even forums where people post content, comment, or even mark some of these posts as favorite. To spice things up, we can make the app...
View ArticleBuilding a Social Network with Laravel and Stream? Easy!
In the previous post, we saw how to add the follow functionality to a Laravel app. We also looked at how to configure our app to use Stream. This part will focus on: configuring our models in order to...
View ArticleThe Ultimate Guide to Deploying PHP Apps in the Cloud
TL;DR: There is a popular mantra amongst developers that goes like this write, test and deploy. In this tutorial, I'll show you how to deploy your PHP apps to different cloud server platforms such as...
View ArticleHow to Build a Cryptocurrency Auto-Trader Bot with PHP? 💰
This tutorial will walk you through the full process of building a bitcoin bot with PHP - from setup, on to your first execution of an automated trade, and beyond. Cryptocurrencies I should not need to...
View ArticleHello, Laravel? Communicating with PHP through Phone Calls!
Twilio is a SaaS application which enables developers to build telephone applications using web technologies. In this two-part series, we will leverage Twilio to build a weather forecast app that is...
View ArticleHello, Laravel? Communicating with PHP through SMS!
In this article, we will modify our Laravel-powered phone-capable weather forecast app so that it is accessible via SMS (text message) in addition to the voice telephone system. It is recommended you...
View ArticleHow to Build a Lyrics Website with Laravel Scout and Algolia
Laravel Scout is a driver-based library for adding full-text search to Eloquent models. If you're not familiar with Laravel or Eloquent models in general, we have a good premium course available here....
View ArticleHow to Add Real-Time Notifications to Laravel with Pusher
The modern web user expects to be informed of everything that happens within the application. You don’t want to be that one website that doesn’t even have the notifications dropdown found not just in...
View ArticlePHPBot – Can a PHP Bot Help You Look up Documentation Faster?
I came across PHPBot the other day (not to be confused with Botman or Fondbot) - a "chatbot" which helps you look up PHP manual entries and generates example code for them. If you follow me on Twitter,...
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