Laravel One to One Relationship: A Beginner’s Guide
One-to-one relationships occur when one Entity in the database has an association with another record from another Entity. For example, in a company, each Staff member can have one staff…
Firebase Push Notifications in Laravel: A Comprehensive Guide
When it comes to sending out notifications from our application to users, there are many ways to do so. You can send out emails, SMS, or even Push Notifications. These…
Efficient User Timezone Handling in Laravel
In today’s world, web applications often cater to users from various timezones. Whether it’s scheduling events, displaying accurate timestamps, or managing user interactions, correctly handling time zones is crucial for…
How To Effortlessly Retrieve Data with Date Scopes in Laravel
Laravel provides a powerful ORM for querying the database. At times, we might want to query the database in a very specific way. This might include using date scopes(ranges) to…
How to Automate SSL Generation and Renewals Using Laravel
Securing your Laravel application with an SSL certificate is crucial in ensuring traffic from and to your application is always encrypted. Some SSL Certificates are free while others have to…
How to Setup Nginx as a Reverse Proxy for Laravel
Nginx is a powerful web server that can also be used as a reverse proxy for your application. You might wonder what exactly is a reverse proxy. Simply put, a…
How to Create Custom Helper Functions in Laravel
One of the key-feature of laravel is its inbuilt helper functions. These functions help speed up the development process. Helper functions such as env(), config(), and dd() have become the…
How To Build GraphQL APIs Using Laravel
Laravel provides a clean interface for building REST APIs. Rest APIs have been the defacto way of building flexible and scalable APIs. This though comes at a cost because as…
How to Add Google reCAPTCHA to Laravel Forms
Form submissions are an important part of many websites, but they can also be a target for spam and abuse. Captcha is a challenge that is used to distinguish between…
How to Integrate Mpesa Into your Laravel Application
Mpesa is a popular payment gateway in Kenya and Africa and is used by more than 52.4 million users on a day-to-day basis. Mpesa Provides various APIs which we can…