In a previous tutorial we investigated how to validate requests in Laravel by using form request objects in your controller. You can view this tutorial by using this link How To Validate Requests In Laravel. This form object allows you to place all the validation rules in a single place making it very easy to reuse these in other requests. We also learnt...

In this tutorial we're going to investigate how we can organise PHP exception classes better in PHP. In PHP you have a lot of options for exception classes each allow you to catch different error states and provide a message back to the user. You can see a list of default exceptions on php.net exceptions. To use PHP exceptions you will normally wrap...

If you've used Laravel for some time you'll understand the use of the Controller Resource. It's a quick way of defining the functionality of a controller done to the core 7 functions. Index Create Store Show Edit Update Delete I'm a big fan of defining your controllers in this matter as it keeps your controllers simple and defined. Therefore this is...

Each month the Envato marketplace brings you free premium files, here's the free files for February 2018. Envato is a web marketplace where you can get premium files for different areas of your website. My favourite marketplaces are the script marketplace CodeCanyon and the theme marketplace ThemeForest. Here are the files which you can get for free...

In this tutorial we're going to look at how we can compile SASS using a NPM package. The package that we're going to use to compile the SASS is called node-sass. This is a node package that will bind node.js to LibSass this allows you to compile native scss files into CSS. First we need to install the the node-sass into our project. You can do this...