Laravel Tips and Tricks

[Andrew]

Starting today, I will be posting one to two Laravel refactoring tips a week. If this is what you are interested in, you can follow/watch this thread.

I will also make it sticky so that it is fixed at the top of the list under the Laravel (PHP Framework) forum.

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Laravel Tip #1​

Here is an example of how we can use the abort_if method to make the code cleaner.

Also, In the end, I used the null safe operator that became available in PHP 8. It can also be used in the first condition if you prefer to stick with the if statement.

 

[Andrew]

Laravel Tip #2​

Here is an example of how to convert an array of paragraphs to HTML string with <p> tags.

I like to use this approach when working with fake data (factories) in Laravel.

 

[Andrew]

Laravel Tip #3​

Here are two ways to check the route name in Laravel. Personally, I prefer the second option using request()->routeIs($routeName).

 

[Andrew]

Laravel Tip #4​

Did you know about the $ loop variable in Laravel? This is an object that contains useful information about the current iteration of the loop.