Some tips for using Laravel

1. updateOrCreate.

• If you need to check if the record exists, then update it or create a new one, you can do it in an updateOrCreate () statement.

2. Eloquent relationships

• You can specify orderBy () directly on your Eloquent relationships.

3. Eloquent method latest / oldest.

• Instead of using order by created_at desc / asc, you can use the Eloquent method latest / oldest.

4. Query Scopes

• You can combine query and query scopes in Eloquent, using multiple scopes in a single query.

5. Auth

• If you want to get ID of the logged in user.

6. Foreach loop

• In Blade, inside the @foreach loop, with the $ loop variable, you can check if the current element is its first, last, or number in the iteration.

• To foreach the elements of the array and print out the STTs of the items.

• Instead of writing {{ $index + 1 }} , you can use the variable $ loop as follows {{ $loop->iteration }}
• The $ loop variable also contains many other useful properties. Read more

7. Accessors & Mutators

• Accessors : Define the method to get the desired data based on the properties of the model eg:
• To display the full name, you must add the string as follows.

• You can define a method to handle this.

• To get the full name, just call

• Mutators : Will set the value of the model before saving it to the database

8. Where attribute

• Normally, when using where, we would write the following:

• But can write more concisely.

• You can where any field similar to the one above e.g. role_id -> whereRoleId, status -> whereStatus

9. Soft-deletes

• Be careful with the soft delete and query builder operations. Don’t forget that soft delete will exclude items when you use Eloquent, but won’t work if you use the query builder.

10. CONST

• To make your code more readable to others, instead of using hard-coded numbers for some values, set them to connst constants with explicit names.