Maybe you’ve received a notice from Amazon that certificates are changing on your S3 bucket on March 23, 2021. Several people have asked me: Will my Laravel app break on March 23?

Recently I ran into a change in behavior in my app depending on whether routes were cached or not. Here’s what I found, and how I dealt with it.

Recently I was creating a new table and using the timestamps helper in the migration. I noticed something that seemed wrong, so I dug a little deeper and learned something new about Laravel and MySQL.

For me, one of the main reasons I write tests is to have confidence that my code is working as expected and to catch myself if (or should I say when?) I break something in the future. I often think of testing the happy path and the failure path, but I’ll share some additional things I like to test in between that further boost my test confidence.

Laravel’s form requests really help reduce the amount of code in your controllers, especially around validation. Another convenience method they offer is authorization. I recently came across a small tip which isn’t explicitly stated in the docs and thought I’d share it.

Let’s say you have a form with two groups of related, but mutually exclusive, fields. When you POST and store a new record, no problem, only the right fields are sent in. But what do you do when that record is updated? How can you cleanly handle this?

Laravel validation supports “dot notation” to let you validate arrays in a request. But what if your field name contains a literal dot?

Randomness can serve a useful purpose in factories, seeders, and tests. There are times it can cause issues though. Here are some rules I think about when introducing randomness into a test.

While everyone is loving the features in the new Laravel 8 release this week, I just discovered something cool I missed in Laravel 7.

A couple days ago, I walked through a few potential gotchas with relationships in Laravel factories. Let’s see how it works in Laravel 8.