Laravel Elixir with Bootstrap SASS and Font Awesome

This is my current Gulpfile for Laravel Elixir which is heavily influenced from this gist and the comments within it.

Making moderation easy

For just over a year I've been working on a website called Eurekar. To describe it briefly, it's a cool little website which has news articles for cars, a fairly complex article search and another search for UK car dealerships.

Realtime chat with Laravel, Ember JS and Pusher

I've been hearing a lot of noise about Firebase recently. Lots of good noise. When I first started making this article I wanted to make use of Firehose which is an open source alternative to Firebase.

Bootstrap 2 pagination in Laravel 5

I recently had to help port a website that used Twitter Bootstrap 2 to Laravel 5 and discovered that changing the pagination template is completely different in Laravel 5.

Simple Search with Laravel and ElasticSearch

I was recently asked to make a search engine for a client's website. Normally I would go down the MySQL fulltext search route but I was feeling rather adventurous at the time. I had no experience with ElasticSearch, Apache Solr or any other search system prior to this so I decided to pick ElasticSearch and dive in head first. This tutorial is a result of some of the things I picked up while learning it. I aim to show you how to set up the Elasticquent Laravel package and some basic ways to fine tune your search engine.

Laravel 4.1 one-to-one polymorphic relationships

To use one-to-one polymorphic relationships in Laravel 4.1 use the "morphOne" method in your models. For example: I have two tables, pages and products. I want to be able to add one featured image to each of these. The Product model would look like this: <?php class Product extends Eloquent { public function image() { return $this->morphOne('FeaturedImage', 'imageable'); } } The Page model would be: <?php class Page extends Eloquent { public function image() { return $this->morphOne('FeaturedImage', 'imageable'); } }

Creating a Twitter Feed in Laravel 4

This tutorial is now out of date - checkout philo/laravel-twitter or thujohn/twitter for an easier and more up to date solution. In this tutorial I aim to show three things How to get Twitteroath working with Laravel 4 How to create and access a new configuration file for your twitter settings How to create a helper method for your tweets To start off install twitteroath via composer. Put line 4 in your composer.json with the rest of the Laravel Composer set up and run composer update or composer install if you haven't already { "require": { "laravel/framework": "4.0.*@dev", "abraham/twitteroauth": "dev-add-composer-json" }, "autoload": { "classmap": [ "app/commands", "app/controllers", "app/models", "app/database/migrations", "app/database/seeds", "app/tests/TestCase.php" ] }, "scripts": { "post-update-cmd": "php artisan optimize" }, "minimum-stability": "dev" }

Automating Configurations with Laravel

One of my favourite features of Laravel is how it handles configurations for different environments. You can have different settings for development, staging, beta, production and even separate configurations for each developer working on the project. With a fresh version of Laravel installed: take a look at the app/bootstrap/start.php file. Near the top of the file you should see the following snippet of code: <?php $env = $app->detectEnvironment(array( 'local' => array('your-machine-name'), )); Within the detectEnvironment() method you can define an array of configurations. If you and a friend or coworker are working on a project and using Git to keep track of changes you could use the following: <?php $env = $app->detectEnvironment(array( 'mitch' => array('mitch-machine-name'), 'tom' => array('tom-machine-name'), )); Laravel will detect which configuration to use from your computer's hostname.