PHP & Laravel
Framework internals, packages, and patterns for building maintainable backends.
Developer tutorials & guides
Reader Stacks
Tutorials and guides on PHP, Laravel, Angular, Flutter, DevOps, and application security.
What we cover
Frontend
Angular, Flutter, and the day-to-day of shipping interfaces that hold up.
DevOps
Deployment, tooling, and the operational side of running real applications.
Security
Vulnerability roundups and practical fixes for the issues that actually get exploited.
Latest tutorials
Laravel
How to Print the Raw SQL Query in Laravel Eloquent
toSql(), getBindings(), and DB::listen() — the difference between seeing the query shape and seeing the actual query that ran, bindings included.
Laravel
How to Check If an Eloquent Collection Is Empty (and Count It Correctly)
count(), isEmpty(), isNotEmpty(), and the N+1-query mistake people make trying to "optimize" an empty check on an Eloquent relationship.
Laravel
How to Implement JWT Authentication in Laravel
Setting up tymon/jwt-auth for a stateless API, and why JWT is the wrong choice for a normal server-rendered app with sessions.
Laravel
Building a Simple REST API in Laravel
API routes, resource controllers, and API Resources for shaping JSON responses — the minimum real structure for a Laravel API, not just returning models directly.
Laravel
Appending URL Query Parameters to Laravel Pagination Links
By default Laravel pagination links drop your filter/sort query params on page 2+. Here is how to keep them with appends() or withQueryString().
Laravel
How to Fetch (and Restore) Soft-Deleted Records in Laravel
withTrashed(), onlyTrashed(), and restore() — plus the query-scope gotcha that makes soft-deleted rows silently vanish from relationships by default.
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