If you need to interact with another developers team or your company wants to have documentation for your API, you can use OpenAPI Framework. Also, it is called Swagger. It is a standard system for API documentation in many companies. It is very important to have standardized up-to-date documentation because other developers will be able … Read more

In many cases, you may need the ability to upload one or multiple files to a Laravel application. If you use API, you can do it in various ways. Many APIs require files to be encoded as base64 string and sent as POST field. But it is not very convenient for testing and validation. You … Read more

UUID or Universally unique identifier can be used where you need to have some unique string, for example for HTML element identifiers, any tracking identifiers or as a primary key for Eloquent models. By default, Eloquent uses an integer as the primary key, but if this key is visible to visitors, it is better to … Read more

Laravel developers are constantly adding new features to new versions of the framework. If you want to know whether your installation supports a specific feature, you should know your version of Laravel. This article will show several ways to check the Laravel version in the command line or your code. You can use the artisan … Read more

Laravel has a migration mechanism for creating and changing database tables. If you want to create a new table, just create a migration and call the Schema::create() method. When you want to add or remove columns or indexes just call the Schema::table() method. But sometimes you may want to rename table. For example, you have … Read more

As you know, local time depends on the time zone. You can configure the time zone for your system or server, for the PHP instance. Laravel uses the UTC timezone by default. But if you want to use a specific time zone in the Laravel application, you should change the timezone in the Laravel settings. … Read more