Matt Komarnicki

To ensure a given NIP number is correct, it must be validated against specific rules. This article shows how to encapsulate these rules in the form of a ValidationRule that can be…

There can be a situation where you have to exclude a class or even an entire file from being checked by PHPStan against defined rules in your project. This guide explains how to ex…

You may run into this exception in Laravel as soon as you attempt to queue a Mailable class. Let me quickly explain why this may happen and how to avoid it.

When implementing e-commerce logic (especially a cart functionality or payment integration) it is very common to deal with all sorts of money values as integers. While it is tempti…

The ngrok tool comes very handy when you have to quickly expose your local Laravel environment to the outside world, by obtaining a disposable public URL that points to your local…

In the previous article about setting up a LEMP stack in Docker, I did not mention a word about essential part of crafting software and that is - testing. Let's use this stack and…

In this brief tutorial I will show you the basics on how to create, return and read cookies created by Laravel. This should cover essential knowledge about cookie functionality tha…

Docker gives an incredible flexibility in terms of having a fully-fledged local environment, dedicated for development purposes. In this article I will show you how to establish a…

When it comes to spam prevention, it is important to find a reasonable balance between efficiency in filtering and overall user experience. Neither a too liberal method of dealing…

A shared hosting wins over VPS with its simplicity but is also has pretty serious limitations and doesn't scale up very well. On the other hand managing your own server raises a va…

The idea behind the View-Presenter pattern is to separate model's display logic from the data it represents. In other words neither a model, nor a view should know anything about h…

Extracting a ZIP archive in PHP is a very easy process. All you have to know is the location to a ZIP archive you are about to extract. Follow this brief tutorial to find out how t…