Tag: laravel

How to update Laravel version with Composer

When updating Laravel to a major version, it might be straightforward but more often than not, it is not. I personally always struggle with to get it done quickly and usually spend far more time on the task, than expected. This is especially true in larger projects where there mi…

Throttle with ReCaptcha Laravel middleware

After a few days of struggling I have found a few-lines long solution to the problem of how to show ReCaptcha after a few hits on the endpoint. It is useful for for instance for payment gateway integration, where this way you make sure attacker is not abusing your app to find out…

Laravel validation XOR - Exclusive OR

I needed to create a validation rule in Laravel that would accept either of the two inputs, but not both and at least one had to be supplied. In other words, I had to apply the XOR logic operation on them: ABXOR 000 011 101 110 The search results did offer many solutions but I d…

Test if a command was scheduled in Laravel 8

Testing if the command was actually scheduled might be a controversial question. Should we test if the scheduler is working and running tasks on time? Obviously no, it provided via framework and we can even see that the tests are present and integrate together. But there is a par…

Dispatching jobs via commands in Laravel 8

What I've found myself usually doing when working with Queues in Laravel is a need to run jobs manually. Especially the jobs that have no arguments, usually some maintenance tasks like pruning excess logs generating a suggestions for user. These kind of jobs are a great candidate…