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Laravel Security Best Practices – A List of Tips for Coding

Leave a Comment / Laravel / devproblems / 18 September 2024

In this blog we describe a few easy security mistakes and how to fix them. 1. Not Using HTTPS 2. Using Weak Encryption Keys 3. Not Validating Input Data 4. Storing Sensitive Data in the Codebase 5. Improper File Permissions 6. Not Escaping User-Generated Content {{ $userInput }} // Escaped{!! $userInput !!} // Unescaped (Be careful) 7. Not Limiting Mass Assignment 8. Exposing […]

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Laravel Octane and Homestead: letting them work together

Leave a Comment / Laravel, Laravel Forge, Laravel Performance / devproblems / 17 January 2024

With the advent of Laravel Octane, it’s possible to take the robust foundation of Laravel and inject it with high-octane performance, leveraging powerful server technologies like Roadrunner and Swoole. Meanwhile, Laravel Homestead provides a hassle-free development environment to keep things smooth and consistent. In this post, we’ll explore integrating Laravel Octane into Laravel Homestead and

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Passing on Cookies with Testing in Laravel – PHPUnit Testing

Leave a Comment / Laravel / devproblems / 23 November 2023

When testing with Laravel, cookies are reset on the next request. To circumvent this, you can grab the cookie and insert it into the next request. Like: Thanks to this blog for helping me solve this.

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Going Serverless for PHP and Laravel: the options compared

Leave a Comment / Amazon Web Services (AWS), Laravel / devproblems / 20 November 2023

Not every Laravel professional is a server professional and that is fine. Still, many Laravel apps are hosted on VPS instances. Serverless gives a way to host Laravel or PHP without thinking about hosting. In this article we compare various options. Hosting on AWS Lamda via Bref There is an excellent package called Bref, which

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Laravel Bref Serverless ENOMEM memory issues – solving them

Leave a Comment / Laravel / devproblems / 17 November 2023

When calling: I receive: Or: This is likely because your computer of Virtualbox / vagrant instance does not have enough memory. I tried increasing the memory in Virtualbox, but that didn’t work. Strangely enough, when exiting the vagrant environment, installing serverless on my Mac and running the command again from there, it works:

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Laravel Telescope: The command “telescope:prune” does not exist.

Leave a Comment / Laravel / devproblems / 29 September 2023

Since upgrading Laravel to the newest versions, telescope:prune does not always work anymore and gives this error: Telescope is installed though. Hopefully, it will be solved soon. It especially doesn’t seem to work when adding the —hours flag, for example telescope:prune –hours=96. For me, both didn’t work. So far, the way to circumvent this is

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Laravel resolving-declaration translatorinterface error display

Resolving the “Declaration of TranslatorInterface Must Be Compatible” Error in Laravel

Leave a Comment / Laravel, Uncategorized / devproblems / 25 September 2023

One of Laravel’s possible issues is the “Declaration of TranslatorInterface Must Be Compatible” error, which can be quite frustrating to resolve. In this article, we will discuss a common solution to this error and an alternative approach if the standard fix doesn’t work for you. The Error The error message in question typically looks like

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Why Laravel Is Not Always Fun Anymore Due To Its Upgrading Cycle

Leave a Comment / Laravel, PHP / devproblems / 25 September 2023

I used to develop projects with PHP only, without a framework. Different classes, functions, etc. Until it became a mess and I was looking for something more structural. Laravel came onto my journey and I love(d) it. Finally having a structured way of writing projects with Model, View and Controller structures with the Blade engine

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Laravel Upgrade to PHP 8.1: Attribute value must be of type bool for selected attribute, array given: Laravel Upgrade to PHP 8.1

Leave a Comment / Laravel / devproblems / 7 September 2023

When upgrading Laravel to PHP 8.1, you could receive the following notice: The reason: This should likely be in your theme or Eloquent code. Try adding a new simple temporary route in routes/web.php: When opening /test it should probably be working. That is why it could be something in your theme. Navigate to your blade

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