Tag: laravel 5

  • Different .env files for different environments in PHP

    There exists great package for storing private and sensitive informations outside of your PHP code and it is called vlucas/phpdotenv. This package is also used by Laravel 5. Although I like the concept of storing delicate informations in separate file, I don’t like that Laravel 5 ditched Laravel 4 way of handling configuration for different…

  • Laravel 5 released – awesomeness multiplied by 5

    Today Taylor Otwell, creator of popular PHP framework Laravel, announced the release of it’s next major release (which is 5). This really made my day since I enjoy the framework so much. If you also want to learn the framework and thus be awesome in PHP, please watch free screencast series Laravel 5 Fundamentals, prepared by…

  • Add Dropbox filesystem driver in your laravel 5 project

    Laravel version 5, which is still under active development and set to be released in November, comes with lots of cool features. One of them is Flysystem integration. Flysystem is a filesystem abstraction PHP package which allows you to easily swap out a local filesystem for a remote one (Amazon S3, Rackspace, Dropbox and others).…