consider a Many-to-Many relationship: a book can have many authors and every author can have many books. so the table structure is something like this. books: authors: book_author: and the models: the book_author table is called a pivot table which stores the ids of authors and books related to each…

We are going to build a Livewire component using tagify library. tagify is a javascript library with a lot of features to make a tag input like this: the goal is to create a livewire component to interact with this library. Install Livewire First, install Livewrie in your Laravel project…

In this tutorial, we are going to create a CRUD operation in a Laravel project with Filament admin panel. Filament is a library that uses TALL stack to create a beautiful admin panel very fast. with the help of this library, we are able to do some tasks in minutes…

if you just installed Filamentphp admin panel and “/admin” gives you a 404 error try clearing route cache.

In php we can use Guzzle library to download images. Here I am using books.toscrape.com website as an example. First, we have to install Guzzle library. and then include “autoload.php” file. we need the “src” of the images we want to scrape. use inspect element to find the address. then…

json_encode and json_decode are php functions for working with JSON strings. Converting Array to JSON json_encode takes an array as a parameter and converts it to JSON. let’s test it. here it returns this JSON string: we can pass a second parameter as a flag to json_encode function. these flags…

changing php version in local web server doesn’t change the version in the command line terminal of an IDE like PhpStorm. here I changed the php version in laragon but the version in phpstorm terminal stays the same. you can check it with php -v command to change that we…

it’s important for a software to be able to handle errors effectively. it has to log the error and inform the user so he knows what’s the issue and decide what to do next. in develpoing with laravel try-catch statement help us achieve this. it checks if the code give…

using components in Laravel helps us keep the UI code clean and reusable in other places. imagine we have a component we created for a checkbox: we use it in a blade file like this: we should be able to check or uncheck the checkbox based on some value in…

sometimes we need to order the records of a table based on a column from another table. imagine we have a table called “authors” that has a relationship with a “books” table. we might need to get books and sort them based on author’s name. here I will explain ordering…