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March 24th, 2025

How to Create Custom Blade Directives in Laravel

Blade provides a whole host of directives to make templating easier. However, sometimes you need to create your own custom directive to save repeating yourself and clear up your Blade templates.

Author
Alex Garrett-Smith
Laravel
March 21st, 2025

Textarea User Mentions in Laravel — A Full Guide

This guide covers the process of implementing mentionable things in Laravel (usually users) from start to finish.

Author
Alex Garrett-Smith
Laravel
Alpine.js
March 20th, 2025

Creating Custom Filesystem Adapters in Laravel

Laravel provides a bunch of filesystem drivers, but what if you need to create your own to support another service, or even overide the way storage works?

Author
Alex Garrett-Smith
Laravel
March 19th, 2025

Per User File Storage in Laravel

Need to store files per user in Laravel? Let's discuss storing uploads for users in a separate directory to avoid collisions and keep our filesystem organised.

Author
Alex Garrett-Smith
Laravel
March 12th, 2025

Drag and Drop Uploading with Livewire and Alpine

If you're already processing file uploads with Livewire but need to add a drag and drop, here's how it works in a few easy steps.

Author
Alex Garrett-Smith
Livewire
March 4th, 2025

How to Install Jetstream on Laravel 12

Although it won't receive any more feature updates, Laravel Jetstream is still compatible with Laravel 12. Here's how to install it.

Author
Alex Garrett-Smith
Laravel
March 3rd, 2025

Find the Page Number of a Model in Laravel's Pagination

In this article, I'll show you how to calculate which page a specific model record sits within in Laravel, even if you're dealing with nested relationships.

Author
Alex Garrett-Smith
Laravel
February 28th, 2025

Quickly and Efficiently Counting CSV Rows with PHP

Here's a fast, easy way to count the number of rows in a CSV with PHP, even if it has millions of rows.

Author
Alex Garrett-Smith
PHP
February 27th, 2025

The Easiest Way to Add Modals to Livewire

Adding modals to your Livewire applications doesn't have to be complicated. Here's a tried and tested package I always reach for.

Author
Alex Garrett-Smith
Livewire
February 26th, 2025

Fix Livewire Pagination Redirecting to /livewire/update

A common issue when working with Livewire pagination is experiencing a redirect to /livewire/update within pagination links when a component gets updated.

Author
Alex Garrett-Smith
Livewire

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