Some Handy Laravel Packages

Given at the Laravel meetup at #phpantwerp

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1. Some handy Laravel packages
2. About me Freek Van der Herten Partner & developer at SPATIE @freekmurze https://murze.be
3. Since 2003 Websites, applications and webshops Team 4 developers, 1 manager Specialization Laravel development
4. OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE
5. Open source software We use a lot of it Nginx, Laravel, Ubuntu, Elasticsearch, Memcached, Redis, Beanstalkd, MySQL, Composer, Glide, Homestead, Flysystem, Fractal, Carbon, PHPUnit, NPM, React, jQuery, Java, SSH, Sequel Pro, BackupPC … Basically everything listed in composer.json and package.json
6. ± 90 packages on Packagist Laravel, Framework agnostic PHP + 1 200 000 downloads in total, growing 200 000 a month We create a lot of it Open source software
7. http://github-awards.com/users?type=world&language=php Open source software
8. https://spatie.be/opensource
9. TOP 10
10. 10. laravel-permission $role = Role::create(['name' => 'writer']);
 $role->givePermissionTo('edit articles');
 $user->assignRole('writer');
 $user->can('edit articles’);
11. 9. laravel-fractal fractal()
 ->collection($books)
 ->transformWith(new BookTransformer())
 ->includeCharacters()
 ->toArray();
12. 8. laravel-tail php artisan tail
13. 7. laravel-medialibrary $newsItem->addMedia($file) ->toCollection('images'); 
 $newsItem->getMedia('images')->first()->getUrl(); 
 $newsItem->getMedia('images')->first()->getUrl('thumb');
 
 $newsItem->addMedia($bigFile) ->toCollectionOnDisk('downloads', 's3');
14. 6. db-dumper Spatie\DbDumper\Databases\MySql::create()
 ->setDbName($databaseName)
 ->setUserName($userName)
 ->setPassword($password)
 ->excludeTables(['table1', 'table2', 'table3'])
 ->dumpToFile('dump.sql');
15. 5. laravel-analytics Analytics::fetchMostVisitedPages(); Analytics::fetchVisitorsAndPageViews(); 
 Analytics::getTopReferrers();
16. 4. string string('StartMiddleEnd')
 ->between('Start', 'End')
 ->toUpper(); // outputs "MIDDLE"
17. 3. laravel-glide GlideImage::create($pathToImage)
 ->modify(['w'=> 50, 'filt'=>'greyscale'])
 ->save($pathToWhereToSaveTheManipulatedImage);
18. 2. pdf-to-image $pdf = new Spatie\PdfToImage\Pdf('file.pdf');
 $pdf->saveImage($pathToImage);
 
 collect(range(1, $pdf->getNumberOfPages()), function(int $pageNumber) use ($pdf) {
 $pdf->setPage($pageNumber)
 ->saveImage("page{$pageNumber}.jpg");
 });
19. 1. laravel-backup
20. BONUS: HIGHLIGHTS OUTSIDE TOP 10
21. Laravel Menu Menu::macro('main', function () {
 return Menu::new()
 ->action('HomeController@index', 'Home')
 ->action('AboutController@index', 'About')
 ->action('ContactController@index', 'Contact')
 ->setActiveFromRequest();
 });
22. Speed up your application 
 by caching the entire response Laravel Responsecache RESPONSE CACHE REQUESTS APP 1 2
23. Laravel Translatable $newsItem = new NewsItem; // This is an Eloquent model
 $newsItem
 ->setTranslation('name', 'en', 'Name in English')
 ->setTranslation('name', 'nl', 'Naam in het Nederlands')
 ->save();
 
 $newsItem->name; // Returns 'Name in English'
 $newsItem->getTranslation('name', 'nl');
24. Laravel Tags $newsItem = NewsItem::create([
 'name' => 'testModel',
 'tags' => ['tag', 'tag2'],
 ]);
 
 $newsItem->attachTags(['tag4', 'tag5']);
 $newsItem->detachTags(['tag4', 'tag5']);
 $newsItem->syncTags(['tag1', 'tag2']);
 
 NewsItem::withAnyTags(['tag1', 'tag2']);
 NewsItem::withAllTags(['tag1', ‘tag2']);
25. Laravel Uptime Monitor
26. Laravel Uptime Monitor
27. https://spatie.be/opensource
28. Not free!
29. POSTCARDWARE
30. Spatie
 Samberstraat 69D 2060 Antwerp
 Belgium
31. QUESTIONS?
32. Thank you! https://speakerdeck.com/freekmurze/some-handy-laravel-packages https://murze.be https://spatie.be/opensource