Laravel eloquent relationships

In laravel you can define all kind of relationships between database tables on the model itself (as in laravel, model is representation of database table), so here's list of eloquent relationships that you can use in laravel model.

Laravel eager loading example

One of the benefit of using laravel is that you can do eager loading relationship in the model when using eloquent, in this article i'm going to show example of eager load in laravel.

How to add primary key to Laravel model?

If you did not specify primary key in your model, laravel will assume the primary key of the table is 'id', so for example your primary key is not 'id', but let's say 'user_id' or 'employee_id' etc, how to define this in the model?

How to do insert using DB table in Laravel

In laravel you can insert data to a table in two ways, the first one and the most common is using a model, create a model for that table and then insert the data, the second way is using DB::table(), in this article i will show you how to insert to database table using DB::table().

Mass assignment technique in Laravel

When you learn about laravel, you probably heard about mass assignment, what does it mean? what exactly is mass assignment? should you care about it?

Interact with your application using artisan tinker

Another cool feature in laravel is the ability to interact with your application via artisan tinker, using artisan tinker you can execute php code and interact with your application code.

How to create resource controller in Laravel 4.2

Laravel 4.2 have predefined resource controller that you can use to start develop CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete) based application quickly.

How to pass parameter to Laravel route

In laravel you can pass parameter into the route, the parameter can be pass down to the controller or even the view, you can also add constraint to filter the parameter, pretty cool huh?

How to show list of routes in Laravel

When your laravel application gets bigger, you will end-up having a lot of routes, and it's difficult to maintain, the ability to show list of routes probably will help you little bit to maintain the routes.

Changes from Laravel 4 to Laravel 5

Laravel 5 started life as Laravel 4.3, but was promoted to its own major version when it became apparent that this new version was going to be a radical departure from version 4 of the framework.

How to put Laravel in maintenance mode

Did you know that you can put laravel on maintenance mode? this is another cool feature on laravel, you can put your application in maintenance mode temporarily and then you can put it back on again in no time.