Articles

Let Laravel fetch your models automatically Now that we’re familiar with dependency injection, what else can we do with the concept? Can we “inject” our models, like the User model, into our route and then utilize model properties without instantiating the User model? How would we even do that? Don’t we need to first “find” the specific user before we can use the properties associated with that user? Believe it or not, Laravel has a way to get a user’s details without explicitly doing something like: User::find(24);. https://www.dinocajic.com/laravel-p50-routing-and-dependency-injection/ Implicit Binding We should understand that we do need to provide our model with an id at the very

Combine smart routing with seamless DI We’ve gone through a few dependency injection topics in the last couple of articles, but now we want to start getting more specific. We have finally entered a more advanced portion of Laravel and will start focusing on specific topics within specific areas of Laravel. The next few articles will deal with routing. In this article, we’ll focus on dependency injections in routes, which is really straightforward. https://www.dinocajic.com/laravel-p49-dependency-injection/ In your route you may type-hint any dependency into your callback signature. If you’re using controllers, the type hint will occur at the method level. use

Elevate your Laravel code with cleaner, modular dependencies You’re going to hear the term “dependency injection” many times throughout your Laravel career, so you might as well get acquainted with it. Before we get into Laravel, let’s look at Dependency Injection as a concept in PHP (or really any programming language). https://medium.com/geekculture/laravel-p47-final-touchups-cmp-5b2764c43565 We should know that we can pass objects as arguments to methods. We can also type hint with the inherited class, which is an overview of polymorphism in PHP. We can pass the object as an argument to the constructor. The constructor will then set the property inside

Give your Laravel project the perfect finishing touches It’s time to wrap this project up and move on to more advanced functionality in Laravel. Before we do, we need to add a couple of additional features to our Car Management Project, like deleting photos. This was a fun little project and in my opinion a little better than a traditional to-do list. https://medium.com/geekculture/laravel-p46-controller-destroy-cmp-6dab2b3da6aa Displaying All Images on the Show Page There is an issue with our show page. I’m sure you’ve caught that already. When we were just adding URL’s to other sites, it was easy to display the image.

Simplify your Laravel setup with a seamless Docker environment on Windows We looked at setting up an existing project on Windows with Laravel, but we haven’t looked at setting up a new project. It is different and simpler than bringing in an existing project. https://blog.devgenius.io/setting-up-an-existing-laravel-application-100-with-docker-on-windows-870176679819 The first thing that you’ll need to do is make sure that your new PC is up-to-date. Next, you’ll need to update WSL. Open PowerShell and run the following command: wsl –update. Install Docker Can’t do much without Docker. Go to https://www.docker.com/ and download the latest version of Docker for Windows. Run through the prompts to install Docker.