Web scraping in Laravel with Larascraper
I do a fair amount of scraping in Laravel, and it always splits into two worlds. Guzzle for the pages that are just HTML, and a mess of Puppeteer scri…
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Deploy Laravel and Vue to cPanel Automatically with GitHub Actions
Uploading a ZIP file to cPanel after every small code change gets old very quickly. You fix one bug, build the Vue frontend, create a ZIP file, open c…
Using HTTP QUERY in Laravel Without Making Your API Harder to Maintain
The short version is this: GET should remain your default search method in Laravel, POST is still the pragmatic fallback for complex filters, and QUER…
Shared-Database Multi-Tenancy in Laravel: The Foundation Layer
TL;DR Shared-database multi-tenancy = one database, every row tagged with tenant_id , a global scope that filters automatically. Three moving parts: a…
Admin-editable SEO & analytics without touching .env
TL;DR Shipped a SEO + analytics baseline in Kickoff : meta/OG, canonical, JSON-LD org schema, dynamic robots.txt , sitemap, and admin-editable GA4/GTM…
Building Abridged Shelf - Free shorter classic stories
Making classics more accessible I have a soft spot for mythology and classic stories. I have read most of the books on Abridged Shelf at least once, s…
I turned the claude code cli into a Prism provider
so here is the thing. i work on a laravel app where almost every feature touch an llm. extract structured data from a pdf, rewrite a paragraph, summar…
Turning an existing database into a documented Laravel API
The projects I dread are the ones where the database is the only documentation. Twenty tables, foreign keys, years of production data, and either no A…
Ebook Reviewer Wanted: Help Me Find What's Gone Stale
Technical books have a shelf life that nobody prints on the cover. A cookbook from 2018 still works. A history book from 2018 still works. A Laravel b…
Supercharge Your Algorithmic Trading with CoinQuant PHP: The Ultimate SDK for Laravel and PHP 8.1+
Are you tired of wrestling with raw cURL requests, parsing Server-Sent Events (SSE) by hand, and building complex polling loops just to interact with …
Dev Log: 2026-07-19
TL;DR Shipped an email broadcast module: audience filtering, suppression, queued per-recipient sends, delivery tracking. Fixed a silent implicit-route…
Your Seeder Should Describe a Shape, Not Your Laptop
TL;DR Rewrote a bootstrap seeder so the deployment stack — DB engine, queue runner, PHP version — is config, not hardcoded. Renamed it away from a pha…
Building AI Agents in PHP: Tool Calling with Laravel
The problem: chat that can only talk The chatbot from earlier in this series can answer questions, but ask it "how many orders did we ship yesterday?"…
RAG in Laravel: Embeddings and pgvector for a Knowledge-Base Bot
In the last post we streamed AI responses over SSE. Now let's fix the problem every chatbot hits in week one: the model doesn't know your data. Ask it…
How to generate course completion certificates from HTML in Laravel
First published on the Accreditly blog . When someone finishes a course in your Laravel app they want proof: a certificate they can download, print an…
Laravel 13.20 Image Processing: A Production Guide
Originally published on letmesend.email . I work on letmesend.email, and this is an adapted edition of that guide. This article was prepared with AI-a…
dompdf Alternatives: HTML to PDF in Laravel Without a Headless Browser
Generating a PDF in Laravel means choosing which problem you want to own. dompdf makes you write CSS like it's 2011. Snappy chains you to an abandoned…
The Reconciler Pattern: When a Queued Job Simply Never Runs
TL;DR A job dispatched once , at row-creation time, has a silent failure mode: if that dispatch is lost, the row sits pending forever — and never appe…
The Specification Pattern in Laravel: Refactoring Complex Business Rules
As our Laravel applications grow, we inevitably face a common architectural dilemma: where do we put complex business logic that dictates whether an e…
Testing Laravel Events and Listeners: Ensuring Reliable Asynchronous Workflows
In modern Laravel applications, events and listeners are the glue that holds our complex business logic together. They allow us to decouple our code, …
Manticore Speaks MySQL - So I Made It a Laravel Database Driver Instead of a Scout Engine
The problem I've been working with Manticore Search for about two years at EricaPRO , building the search layer for two financial data platforms. For …
Why Laravel's Service Container Feels Like Magic: Dependency Injection Explained
1. Hook & Problem Statement You’ve been there. You're building a Laravel application, and everything is going smoothly. You type Route::get('/orde…
Exploring coinglass-php: The Ultimate SDK for Coinglass API v4 in PHP and Laravel
Building cryptocurrency analytics dashboards, liquidation trackers, or monitoring funding rate arbitrage often requires reliable access to high-qualit…
Compiling PHP DTOs: from reflection to 4.5M hydrations per second
TL;DR: attribute-driven DTOs are pleasant to write but usually pay a reflection-and-dispatch tax on every call. Simple Data Objects compiles a special…
PHP Attributes Can Help Your Docs, But They Won’t Save Them
PHP attributes are a useful documentation tool, but they are a terrible documentation strategy on their own. That is the short version. The appeal is …
Why I built my own webhook testing tool
I work with Laravel on a daily basis, and at some point I started integrating more than one payment gateway into the same project. Each gateway sends …
Dev Log: 2026-07-05
TL;DR 23 commits across 4 repos, one theme: opening apps to the outside world, safely. Public: kickoff v1.32.0 ships SDK-free support-widget integrati…
A Cookie-Free Embeddable Support Widget: What Adversarial Review Caught
TL;DR Built an embeddable support widget for a helpdesk product: no cookies — a short-lived bearer token in a header, hashed at rest. Entry is an HMAC…
Offline-First Check-In: A Laravel API That Survives Venue Wi-Fi
TL;DR A gate check-in app can't depend on live Wi-Fi: scans must work offline and sync later. Four endpoints do it: manifest download, idempotent batc…
Migrating Laravel to Symfony Without Rewriting Your Domain
Book: Decoupled PHP — Clean and Hexagonal Architecture for Applications That Outlive the Framework Also by me: Thinking in Go (2-book series) — Comple…