How to get postfix working with Laravel 4
I needed the Laravel Mail class to work with my Ubuntu installation of Postfix, in order to send emails out to my application users. It’s actually really straight forward. Assumptions Ubuntu 12.04 OS...
View ArticleHow to add CSRF protection to all POST requests in Laravel 4
A very important part of an online application is the security, and Laravel make protecting your website from CSRF attacks nice and easy. To avoid forgetting to add the CSRF protection to each and...
View ArticleHow to add custom HTTP response & error message in Laravel 4
When you’re performing some user input validation in PHP, and the input isn’t compliant to your rules, you’ll need to inform the user about what went wrong. Setting an appropriate HTTP response along...
View ArticleHow to validate user input with Laravel’s built in rules
Laravel 4 offers some great helper classes and methods for validating user input. We’ll take quick look at some of them in this article. Assumptions: You have some routing setup to accept POST requests...
View ArticleGet the rendered PHP blade template content – Laravel 5
There was a scenario I recently encountered, whereby it was especially useful to retrieve the rendered contents of the PHP blade template in Laravel 5, before simply returning it to the browser. I...
View ArticleHow to setup table schema with Laravel migration
A great feature of Laravel is the ability to create table schemas through their migration mechanism, which acts like version control for your database. It provides an audit trail, and an opportunity to...
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