• Laravel
• 9 Min Read
• 26th October 2014

Laravel’s MacroableTrait

Another quick primer this week, but this time it's Laravel specific.

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• Laravel
• 7 Min Read
• 19th October 2014

PHP Traits

It's another quick primer this time. Today we're going to talk about a PHP 5.4+ feature called traits. While Laravel doesn't make heavy use of traits they are sprinkled around the core codebase, so you'll want to get familiar with them.

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• Laravel
• 7 Min Read
• 17th October 2014

Laravel Facade Troubleshooting

Last time we described the PHP patterns used to implement Laravel's facade feature, and started to describe some of the "gotchas" involved. We briefly discussed how a facade introduces a second type of singleton/shared service into the system, as well as the inherent problem

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• Laravel
• 20 Min Read
• 8th October 2014

Unraveling Laravel Facades

So far in this series, whenever we've wanted to use a service, we've fetched Laravel's application/service-container object with the global app function

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