Laravel Tips & Tricks

Fix the annoying migration error "Syntax error or access violation: 1071 Specified key was too long; max key length is 1000 bytes "

If you have a complex site web.php can soon become an untameable beast.

There is an easy way of doing multiple "where" with eloquent

There is a magical place called boot() in an Eloquent model where you can override default behavior

Eloquent has quite a few functions that combine two methods, like “please do X, otherwise do Y”.

Useful tip

Something I am often asked is can you have a virtual field in a model. Well yes you can. Laravel has a feature "Accessors" which is really useful.

When I first came to Laravel I came across a really easy trick to use helpers.

This is a file that can easily become very large and difficult to manage