Backend Development

In this tutorial i will demonstrate how to create token based authentication with laravel 5.5. Token authentication normally used in when have some sort of Apis and a need a way to authenticate users when they interact with your apis.   Overview The traditional process of interacting with a website is that you login from […]

In this tutorial i will demonstrate how to create a shopping cart with php using laravel framework. we will be using laravel 5.5 but you can also use any other version.   Requirements: Apache or IIS with PHP >= 5.6.4 . Twitter bootstrap.   Installation In your local development path type this command to install […]

Laravel has a bunch of features that makes development much easy. One of these features is Route Model binding so instead of using the primary key of the table to fetch the data of a single item we can take the advantage of route model binding as shown below.   Let’s demonstrate this with an […]

Have you ever thought some day how to iterate a list of functions in php. In this tutorial i will show a feature in PHP 5.4 and above related to Closures  and arrays which is how to create arrays that contain a Closures. With This feature in place you can iterate an array of functions […]

Making remote requests is an important aspect of web applications and nowadays most web applications work entirely through remote calls to external Apis. Remote requests is useful when you need to fetch data from external sources like for example the Facebook, Twitter, and Google login that you see in most websites works through remote http […]

In this tutorial we will demonstrate The Factory Method Pattern. This is another creational pattern which aims to creating objects from another classes without revealing the actual class implementation and also achieves the “Dependency Inversion Principle”.   the factory method pattern is a creational pattern that uses factory methods to deal with the problem of […]

In this tutorial we will learn about exclusive topic in php oop which is Magic Methods. Any class that you create in php has some built in methods. Those methods are special methods that allow you to react to certain events during class life cycle. Magic methods begin with __ and any one of us […]

Laravel is the most widely used frameworks these days as it provides developers with a lot of easy ways in development and provides many many helpers and functions and below we illustrate 5 of these helpers. data_get() The data_get() helper allows you to get a value from an array or object with dot notation. This […]

Today we will explore one of the php design patterns that is commonly used in most frameworks and languages which is the Singleton Pattern.   Ensures that class has only one instance, and provides a global point of access of it.   The key point in this pattern is that you define a class with […]