Debugging the Eloquent Query Builder

The other day I had an Eloquent query that wasn’t returning what I expected it to. I started looking for a way to determine what was happening “under the hood” so to speak. It turns out it’s very simple.

Defining Relationships In Laravel 5.6 and 6.x

I wanted to take a quick break in my barrage of Artisan posts to write about defining one-to-many and many-to-many relationships in Laravel’s Eloquent. Eloquent also supports one-to-one relationships but I felt like those are used so rarely that I could skip it.

Link Post and Podcast Roundup: November 2019 Edition

November’s links.

What the F*ck Is With All the Artisan Commands: Development Helpers

Here are two useful commands that you can use every day and one that’s good for getting yourself setup.

What the F*ck Is With All the Artisan Commands: Quickies

As I’ve been organizing the flow of this series there’s a random set of commands that don’t really have a good home. I thought I would cover them now so they’re out of the way.

What the F*ck Is With All the Artisan Commands: migrate

Now that we’ve learned how to create our migrations it’s time to discuss how to work with them using the migrate family of commands.

Link Post and Podcast Roundup: October 2019 Edition

October’s links.

What the F*ck Is With All the Artisan Commands: make:migration

Let’s start with my favorite feature so far: database migrations. I’m going to start with this command because I think it’s one of the more critical components and because the next article will involve working with them. :-)

Refactoring 2nd Edition: Chapter 12: Dealing with Inheritance

Book cover copyright Martin Fowler

Overview

This chapter explains several methods that that allow you to refactor classes.

My One Takeaway

I love the concept of “Replace Type Code with Subclasses”. This has been an effective way to remove complexity because each subclass can handle it’s logic in it’s own set of functions.

I hope everyone enjoyed the book!

What the F*ck Is With All the Artisan Commands

At work, we’re moving our application from Zend Framework to Laravel. I don’t have much experience with Laravel so I’ve been working my way through Laravel 5.7 From Scratch . I’ve been amazed at how easy it is to work with Laravel but I’m overwhelmed by Artisan’s list of available commands. My goal over the next several weeks is to look at each command and determine why it’s there and when the command should be used. Mostly due to my own self interested but hopefully others will find it helpful.