Laravel – Paul Hayes https://paul-hayes.org Sun, 18 Dec 2016 18:58:37 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.4 Haven’t learned PHP 7.0? You’re going to learn it now: Laravel 5.5 Will Require It https://paul-hayes.org/2016/12/18/havent-learned-php-7-0-youre-going-to-learn-it-now-laravel-5-5-will-require-it/ Sun, 18 Dec 2016 18:58:37 +0000 https://www.paul-hayes.org/?p=48 “But my job is only using 5.6…”

Well, it’s time to learn PHP 7.0 because Laravel 5.5 is gonna require it.

Check out the details here at Laravel News!

]]> Laravel 5.3 is now available https://paul-hayes.org/2016/08/23/laravel-5-3-is-now-available/ Wed, 24 Aug 2016 03:27:43 +0000 http://www.paul-hayes.org/?p=26 Laravel 5.3 welcome screenNew major features have been added

  • Laravel Scout : Laravel Scout is a new driver based full-text search engine for Eloquent
  • Laravel Passport : You need to make an OAuth 2 server? Laravel Passport has got you covered. Get one set up in a few minutes.
  • Laravel Echo : Laravel Echo is an improvement to the existing event broadcasting system that makes it easy to work with web sockets. To utilize Echo the backend will ship with the Laravel core and then you will need to pull in an NPM package for the JavaScript side. (I need to look deeper into this)

More details can be seen at the official blog for Laravel.

FYI: Read the requirements! I had to update my laptop’s PHP to 5.6. (Though I’m covered on my vagrant boxes. Thanks scotchbox!

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