All Tag: laravel Posts
Craig Riley
3 months ago - Development
Laravel forms: casting an input before validation
If you’re familiar with casts in Laravel, you’ll know them as a great way to transform values on their way to and from the database. A boolean cast – for example – is stored in the database as a 1 or a 0, whereas inside your code, it will be true or false. But what...
Craig Riley
3 months ago - Development
Adding a cache layer to Inertia SSR in Laravel
Inertia’s SSR server (which runs in a NodeJS process) is pretty quick, but sometimes you’re trying to shave every millisecond possible off your render time. A common question we’ve encountered is whether you can simply cache the server response and speed things up even more. Good news: you can. What makes this possible is a...
Craig Riley
5 months ago - Development
Inverse BelongsToThrough relationships in Laravel models
No, Laravel doesn’t actually have a BelongsToThrough relationship, a common frustration for models where you want to access the top level of a BelongsTo chain. Consider this setup: A user has authored many posts. Those posts have many reviews. So how do we define the inverse relationship back up from Review -> User (the post...