There is now a new, handy method in Laravel that you can use to assert that a directory is empty in your tests. A really cool feature added by @JayBird1979! 🚀 #laravel #php

🔥 #Laravel Tip: Finishing off the week with something that is less used in the framework… regular expression pattern matching for your routes. Let’s dive in…

🔥 #Laravel Tip: Most of the time, you’ll want to use Laravel’s default auth. However, if your app is mostly free of auth routes, then you might want to consider a simpler setup of basic auth (which does not require routes, controllers & views, but instead uses a browser prompt).

❄️In your Laravel tests, you might sometimes need to freeze the time. This is particularly useful if you're trying to make assertions based on timestamps or need to make queries based on dates and/or times. #laravel #php

🔥 #Laravel Tip: If you’re new to authorisation, you might not be sure when to use a gate and when to use a policy. Let’s take a high level look at them…

One of the nice little things we do is modify our Laravel schedule so that every command is run in the background, without overlapping. We've got ~80 scheduled commands, so running in the background ensures they don't pile up.

🔥 #Laravel Tip: Ever wondered what the differences are between an Eloquent model’s ‘fresh()’ and ‘refresh()’ methods? Let’s see what each of them do with this little cheatsheet.

🔥 #Laravel Tip: Let’s start the week with a simple one… when making changes to a model and its relations, you don’t need to call ‘save()’ on each of them. Instead, just call ‘push()’ on the main model and it will recursively save any changes.

How to retrieve records between two timestamps in Laravel 🗓 Use whereBetween with a from and to date. If you need to provide fallback you can do so with the nullish coalescing operator ❔❔