Laravel could not be opened: failed to open stream: Permission denied

When you first setup a laravel project, you might encounter this error 'could not be opened: failed to open stream: Permission denied' or 'PHP Fatal error: Uncaught UnexpectedValueException: The stream or file'.

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.

Insert using DB table doesnt update timestamp

In laravel there are two ways to insert data/record, using DB table or using model, but i found a problem when inserting the data using DB table, the timestamp created_at and updated_at is showing '0000-00-00 00:00:00' as value.

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 insert, update and delete in Laravel

If you are just learning about laravel, meaning you are beginner of laravel, you probably want to know about how to do insert, update and delete record of a database table in laravel. If you are beginner this short tutorial is for you.

How to get raw SQL query in Laravel

Using eloquent in laravel is very convenient, but sometimes you want to know the raw SQL query that's executed behind the scene, so how to get raw SQL query from laravel eloquent?

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().

How to do raw query in Laravel

Besides the standard methods for database query that are available on laravel, you also have an option to do raw query, in this article i will show you how to do raw database query in laravel.

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?

php artisan migrate command in Laravel

The 'php artisan migrate' command lets you run the database migration on your application, but there is more than that, there are other variant of this command that you can use such as rollback, reset, refresh, status, install and so on.

How to add and drop indexes in Laravel schema builder

On your laravel database migration you can define indexes for each table that you create, for example you can add primary key, unique value, or just a basic index. All can be done in laravel schema builder.

How to check table column exist or not in Laravel

Besides the 'hasTable' static method, you also have 'hasColumn' method which can check column exist or not on database table of laravel.

How to check table exist or not in Laravel

Is it possible to check existence of database table in laravel code? the answer is yes, it is possible to check whether a table already exist or not in laravel.

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 check Eloquent get() and first() query result

Every time you run query to the database whether using eloquent get() or first() method, it's always a good idea to check the result of the query before doing other things, make sure the result is as we expected and not returning empty.

How to create table seeder in Laravel 4.2

Seeding is the technique of filling our database with sample data so we can test and create our applications. It really does make building applications much easier.

Echoing data with default value in Laravel blade

When echoing data in laravel blade template using double or triple curly braces, you don't need to worry if the value is empty, it will not displayed as an error, but sometimes you want to put a default value if the data is empty.

What is forelse loops in Laravel blade?

Besides 'foreach' loops, we also got 'forelse' loops in laravel blade template, what exactly this 'forelse' loops does? and most importantly should we care about it?

Looping in Laravel blade template

Just like the 'if' statement, blade also has it's own way of doing loops/looping, you can do 'for' loops, 'foreach', 'forelse', and also 'while' loops. Let's take a look at the syntax.

If statement in Laravel blade template

Blade template have it's own way of doing conditional 'if' statement, the syntax is little bit different from the regular php 'if' statement, but works the same way.