In Eloquent, you can delete database records conveniently with the delete method from the parent Model class. In the last part of this series, you’ll create a new command to delete lists. For simplicity, any links ass...

In a previous section of this series, you updated an existing Artisan command in order to support the new lists feature. Although there are commands to insert and delete links, the demo application currently doesn’t h...

Laravel Eloquent has native methods to facilitate implementing pagination on database query results. In this part of the series, you’ll learn how to limit the number of results in a Laravel Eloquent query with the lim...

When working with database query results, it is often useful to obtain only the total number of rows in a result set, instead of pulling the full dataset content with a regular query. Eloquent offers a few different a...

In a previous part of this series, you learned how to obtain database records using the all() method from within an Eloquent model, sorting the resulting collection with the sortDesc() method. In this guide, you'll le...

In a previous part of this series, you learned about how to query the database using Eloquent models. In this section, you’ll create a new route within the application to show links by list. You’ll also learn how to u...

One of the biggest advantages of using an ORM system is the ability to manipulate rows in a database table as objects within your codebase. Eloquent provides several methods that can be accessed directly from models t...

Laravel is an open source PHP framework that provides a set of tools and resources to build modern PHP applications. In this guide, you'll install and configure a new Laravel application on an Ubuntu 18.04 server, usi...

UFW, or Uncomplicated Firewall, is an interface to iptables that is geared towards simplifying the process of configuring a firewall on Linux servers. In this guide, you'll learn how to set up a firewall with UFW on U...

Laravel's Seeders are special classes that live in the database/seeders directory in a Laravel project that allow you to programmatically insert a collection of default or sample records in the database. In this guide...

A “LAMP” stack is a group of open-source software that is typically installed together to enable a server to host dynamic websites and web apps. This term is actually an acronym which represents the Linux operating sy...

In the second part of our Practical Introduction to Laravel Eloquent Series, you’ll learn how to insert records in the database using Eloquent models. One of the biggest advantages of using an ORM system is the abilit...

In this tutorial, learn how to set up a one-to-many relationship in Laravel Eloquent. You’ll modify the initial database structure from the Landing Laravel demo application to include a second table, which you will us...

A "LAMP" stack is a group of open source software that is typically installed together to enable a server to host dynamic websites and web apps. This stack typically consists of the Linux operating system, the Apache ...

UFW (uncomplicated firewall) is a firewall configuration tool that runs on top of iptables, included by default within Ubuntu distributions. It provides a streamlined interface for configuring common firewall use case...

This guide will walk you through a few procedures that you should take early on in order to create a solid foundation for your new Ubuntu 18.04 server, before moving on to installing and configuring any software or se...

Laravel Sail is a Docker development environment that is included by default within newer Laravel versions. In this guide, you’ll bootstrap a new Laravel application with Laravel Sail and create a styled “about me” la...

Visual Studio Code, also known as VS Code, is a free source code editor software or IDE (integrated development environment) available for all major operating systems. With a large collection of extensions for many pr...

While handling increased system load is a common concern, decreasing downtime and eliminating single points of failure are just as important. High availability is a quality of infrastructure design at scale that addre...