Every now and then you would like to check what version of Laravel do you have installed. How to determine that? Here are a couple of ways. I tested this for Laravel 4.
1. The easiest way is to simply run artisan command php artisan --version from your CLI and it will return your Laravel
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Integrating Bootstrap into a Laravel application allows you to build clean, responsive user interfaces quickly using Blade template inheritance. Whether you are maintaining an existing project or setting up a lightweight custom layout, structuring your Blade views with Bootstrap CSS and JavaScript assets is straightforward.
Here is a step-by-step guide on how to integrate Bootstrap
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Packagist and Composer are a great combination for installing the packages that we need for our projects (in my case for Laravel 4 project). For example you want to use Sentry 2 so you simply add "cartalyst/sentry": "2.0.*" as required package in your composer.json file. But what if we need a package that is not
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I had a problem with Basset package (website didn’t load, it kept timing out) so I tried to remove it from the composer.json file to see if it helps. After running php composer.phar update I got this error:
Script php artisan clear-compiled handling the pre-update-cmd event returned with an error
You can even get this
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Eloquent provides a convenient way to transform your model attributes when getting or setting them. In Laravel 3 they were called Getter & Setter Methods. In Laravel 4 they are called Accessors & Mutators.
Accessors are custom methods in your Model that modify the value of a field before it is returned to you (e.g.
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While building admin/CMS or just a form on your site you might need to build a dropdown (select) list with values read from database. It is very elegant to do this with Laravel’s Eloquent. (For the sake of this post let’s assume that you want to read values from the database and not from some array
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After I resolved my speed problems with Composer (see the post here ) I got this error once the Composer ended updating dependencies:
Fatal error: Call to undefined method Illuminate\Foundation\Application::getConfigLoader() in E:\path-to-my-project\vendor\laravel\framework\src\Illuminate\Foundation\start.php on line 106
As I already mentioned in my previous post
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I wanted to speed up my coding by adding Laravel 4 Generators and Laravel Artisan plugin for Sublime text 2 (you can learn more about this here). I added "way/generators": "dev-master" to my composer.json file as instructed and ran "php composer.phar update" and waited….and waited…and waited. How can downloading
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