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More Useful Laravel Tips

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It would be great if you found this article containing 20 very useful and advanced Useful Laravel Tips that will help you in your future projects and I will only talk about some tips that caught my interest and find that I will use them a lot but visit the source for more depth https://ashallendesign.co.uk/blog/20-useful-laravel-tips

  • Using DATETIME Fields Instead of Booleans 
class Post extends Model { public function isPublished(): bool { return $this->published_at !== null; // is_published } }
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  • Using 'when' in PendingRequest 
$http = Http::withBasicAuth($username, $password); if (app()->environment('local')) { $http->withoutVerifying(); } // with when $http = Http::withBasicAuth($username, $password) ->when(app()->environment('local'), function (PendingRequest $request) { $request->withoutVerifying(); });
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  • Using getOrPut() in Collections 
if (! $collection->has($key)) { $collection->put($key, $this->builtItem($data)); } return $collection->get($key); // getOrPut() return $collection->getOrPut($key, fn () => $this->buildItem($data));
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  • Debugging HTTP Requests 
Http::dump()->get($url); Http::dd()->get($url);
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  • Replicating Models

you can duplicate a model like so

$post = Post::find(123); $copiedPost = $post->replicate(); $copiedPost->save();
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If you want to exclude properties from being copied, you can pass the field names as an array into the method

$post = Post::find(123); $copiedPost = $post->replicate([ 'author_id', ]); $copiedPost->save();
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Additionally, the replicate method creates an unsaved model, so you can chain your usual model methods together. For example, we can copy the model and add " (copy)" on to the end of the title so that we can see that its been replicated

$post = Post::find(123); $copiedPost = $post->replicate([ 'author_id', ])->fill([ 'title' => $post->title.' (copy)', ]); $copiedPost->save();
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  • Using 'wasRecentlyCreated' on Models 
$user = User::firstOrCreate( ['email' => request('email')], ['name' => request('name')], ); if ($user->wasRecentlyCreated) { // Your user was just created... } else { // Your user already exited and was fetched from the database... }
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  • Moving Logic into Methods

let's say that we want to check if a user is approved. Our code might look like so

if ($user->approved === Approval::APPROVED) { // Do something... }
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our model might now look like this

class User extends Model { public function isApproved(): bool { return $this->approved === Approval::APPROVED; } } // now if ($user->isApproved()) { // Do something... }
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  • Changing the Key for Route Model Binding

let's say that you have a route that accepts a blog post's slug

Route::get('blog/{slug}', [BlogController::class, 'show']); // Model use App\Actions\PublishPost; use App\Models\Post; class BlogController extends Controller { public function show($slug) { $post = Post::where('slug', $slug)->firstOrFail(); return view('blog.show', [ 'post' => $post, ]); } }
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to simplify this code and clean it up, we could update the slug parameter to be post:slug instead

Route::get('blog/{post:slug}', [BlogController::class, 'show']); // Model use App\Actions\PublishPost; use App\Models\Post; class BlogController extends Controller { public function show(Post $post) { return view('blog.show', [ 'post' => $post, ]); } }
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I hope you enjoyed these tips .

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Calvin Jackson • • Edited

Beautiful. Thank you.

Route::get('blog/{slug}', [BlogController::class, 'show']); // but i'd advise committing to this if what you really want, to avoid any hiccups, by adding

public function getRouteKeyName()
{
return 'slug';
}

to the model class. Just my piece of thought on this though.