First, enable soft deletes in your model. I’ll use the users table as an example.
Installing the Html and Form Builder package back into Laravel 5
Here’s how to get the Form and Html Builder package back when using Laravel 5. composer require illuminate/html Then, in /config/app.php add the following to the providers and aliases arrays: ‘providers’ => [ … ‘Illuminate\Html\HtmlServiceProvider’, ], ‘aliases’ => [ … ‘Form’=> ‘Illuminate\Html\FormFacade’, ‘HTML’=> ‘Illuminate\Html\HtmlFacade’, ],
Disable Registration in Laravel 5
A new Laravel 5 installation comes with user registration out of the box. If you don’t want to use this feature, here is a clean way to disable it. Open up app\Http\Controllers\Auth\AuthController.php and add the following methods: public function getRegister() { return redirect(‘auth/login’); // Or wherever } public function postRegister() { } These will override… Continue reading Disable Registration in Laravel 5
Using Laravel 5 Auth Middleware
To restrict pages in your app to authentication status, add the middleware to the controller’s constructor. To restrict a page to guests only (not signed in): public function __construct() { $this->middleware(‘guest’); } For signed in users: public function __construct() { $this->middleware(‘auth’); } If you want to make exceptions for certain methods, just pass those parameters… Continue reading Using Laravel 5 Auth Middleware
Using Route Resource for RESTful routes in Laravel 5
To have laravel automatically generate all the REST routes for a controller, use Route::resource() Route::resource(‘users’, ‘UsersController’);
Set up Elixir with Laravel 5
First, make sure you have gulp installed. npm install –global gulp Then run npm install in order to install Elixir.
Form Model Binding in Laravel 5 with FormBuilder
Here’s an example of how to use form-model binding with FormBuilder. {!! Form::model($user, [‘route’ => [‘users.update’, $user->id], ‘method’ => ‘PATCH’]) !!}
Generate Excerpt without Breaking a Word
Here’s a little snippet for generating an excerpt without breaking up a word: function excerpt($string=”, $maxChar=50, $uri=’#’) { $length = strlen($string); if ($length < $maxChar) { return $string; } $trimmedString = substr($string, 0, $maxChar); $choppedString = substr($trimmedString, 0, strrpos($trimmedString, strrchr($trimmedString, ‘ ‘))); $newString = $choppedString . ‘ <a href=”‘ . $uri . ‘”>more</a>’; return $newString;… Continue reading Generate Excerpt without Breaking a Word
Setting Up a Virtual Host on WAMP
One of the biggest pains about developing on a local server setup like WAMP is that the root filepaths are different when you go live. To get around this I always set up a virtual host so that my development url can be something like, http://myapplication.dev/. Here’s how to do it on Wampserver 2.5. This… Continue reading Setting Up a Virtual Host on WAMP
Check For an Element on the Page with jQuery
Sometimes I write a function that I only want to apply to certain pages. Say, a form. I may need some javascript to apply to the form when I’m inserting and different javascript to apply when I’m editing. Since I’m reusing the form, I just change the id of the form and use this check: if ($(‘#insert-form’).length… Continue reading Check For an Element on the Page with jQuery