In my previous post, we saw how to get started with Nova and use it to create a simple blog. While that’s a nice «Hello World» example, I’d like to explore more of Nova’s features and get a better feel for using it. So, for this deep dive, let’s build […]
Improving Our Laravel Nova CRM
In my last post, we started building a simple CRM using Laravel Nova. It was pretty complete when we left it, but I think we can add a few more features and explore the rest of what Nova has to offer. In this walkthrough, we’ll take a look at how […]
Getting Started with Laravel Nova
What an exciting day in Laravel history! Today, the latest addition to the Laravel ecosystem has arrived: Nova. So, what exactly is it? Well, straight from the marketing website it’s defined as, «a beautifully designed administration panel for Laravel. Carefully crafted by the creators of Laravel to make you the […]
Searching for HTML in an easy way
You certainly already had to grab some HTML and fetch some content inside it with PHP. Whenever you need to do this, the most common solution is to use regex and functions like strpos. Some developers try to keep code clean using classes like DomDocument, But end up having to […]
How to specify a different .env file for phpunit in Laravel 5
Copy your .env to .env.testing, then edit the .env.testing file and change the APP_ENV parameter to make it like this APP_ENV=testing this way you will be able to specify your settings int this new file In case you don’t want to create a new .env.testing file you have to specify […]
Dynamic dependency injection for interface, based on user input
Finally after some days researching and thinking alot about the best approach for this, using Laravel I finally solved. I have to say that this was specially difficult in Laravel 5.2, because in this version the Session middleware only is executed in the controllers used in a route, it means […]
Microsoft WSL CentOS / Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Some distros are available only via GitHub releases. They were implemented using (a very thin C99) OS-agnostic wrapper called WSLDL. ATM, we have Alpine, Arch, Artix, CentOS, Void (glibc & musllibc) available: https://github.com/yuk7/wsldl#install-with-prebuilt-rootfs. Navigate to one of those repos, fetch latest release build (zip) e.g. CentOS-7.5.1804.zip at https://github.com/fbigun/WSL-Distro-Rootfs/releases/tag/v0.0.1. After that […]
What’s the point of input type in GraphQL
The Object type defined above is inappropriate for re‐use here, because Objects can contain fields that express circular references or references to interfaces and unions, neither of which is appropriate for use as an input argument. For this reason, input objects have a separate type in the system. Since posting […]
Docker and IPtables
TL;DR; By default, docker daemon appends iptables rules for forwarding. For this, it uses a filter chain named DOCKER. Chain FORWARD (policy DROP) target prot opt source destination DOCKER all — 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 … Chain DOCKER (1 references) target prot opt source destination Moreover, when you tell docker to expose […]
Laravel custom model casts
So I ended up going down the Traits route to override various Model methods, this turns out not to be for the fainthearted as attribute casting is quite deeply embedded into the way models work. To make this work for the most general case, i.e. being able to easily add […]