Posts tagged with #Tips

Tips & Tricks

Tips & Tricks

PHP throw Expression: ?? throw and ?: throw Explained

You fetch a value, check whether it is missing, and throw if it is. Every PHP codebase has...

DK Dasun Kalupahana

October 25, 2026 3 min read

Laravel

Laravel

Laravel Pipeline Class: Multi-Step Flows Explained

Every request to your Laravel app travels through a stack of middleware: each one does some work, then...

DK Dasun Kalupahana

October 25, 2026 4 min read

Laravel

Laravel

Laravel replicate(): Duplicate Eloquent Models Safely

"Duplicate this" buttons look easy: copy the row, save it, done. Then the first copy fails with a...

DK Dasun Kalupahana

October 24, 2026 3 min read

PHP

PHP

PHP file_exists() vs is_file(): Directory Bug Explained

Here is a bug that passes every test until a user without a profile picture shows up. You...

DK Dasun Kalupahana

October 23, 2026 3 min read

Laravel

Laravel

Laravel integer:strict Validation Rule Explained

Here is a small surprise in Laravel validation. The integer rule passes the string "10". For a form...

DK Dasun Kalupahana

October 22, 2026 3 min read

Laravel

Laravel

8 Laravel Quick Tips You Can Use Today

Some Laravel features are famous, and some sit in the docs for years while people write the same...

DK Dasun Kalupahana

October 21, 2026 3 min read

PHP

PHP

PHP Enums From the Query String: tryFrom() vs from()

You add ?status=paid filtering to an endpoint, write Status::from($_GET['status']), and it works. Then somebody requests ?status=PAID or ?status=refunded...

DK Dasun Kalupahana

October 17, 2026 3 min read