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Laravel testing and migrations trick

Well, today I've encountered a small problem when working with Laravel, and I decided to use a hacky trick to bypass it. Here it is explained, why does it happen and what to do in order to solve it. First of all, let's imagine

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Laravel authorization policies for methods without arguments like create

I was implementing authorization policies in my Laravel app for determining what users can do what actions. As stated in the documentation, if you want to check a policy, you can do something like this in the controller: if (Gate::denies('update', $post)) { abort(

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How to contribute to an existing Composer package

These days I'm working with a colleague in a PHP package for extending Laravel called laravel-crud. This package adds some functionality to Laravel in order to speed and have a cleaner code for typical CRUD resources in a Laravel application. The code is hosted

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MySQL data to Laravel seed

We had a Laravel application, one team member was using an old version of the application for inserting data through the user interface, at the same time we were developing all kind of changes in the database schema, and the application in general, sadly

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Eloquent query through many tables

Today this took me a while to figure out, so I'm going to write it down here, maybe it can be helpful for someone. I'm using Eloquent, the Laravel ORM and I need to perform this query without getting into joins or raw SQL

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