Background

Back in the good old days, I often test PHP applications by accessing it directly from the web browser and input the data in the forms. Today, with the explosion of awesome PHP libraries we can now generate most kinds of data by using code alone. The data can then be directly inserted into the database. This reduces the need to input data directly into the app. In Laravel application, there’s an awesome package for this called Faker - a PHP library that generates fake data for you. Faker is not exactly Laravel package, but perfectly works with this framework as well. Check their github page: https://github.com/fzaninotto/Faker

Problem

I develop a Laravel application which need to show date in localized format. The 'date' I'm talking about is database record which defined as $dates in its model.

Problem

I have a client which sell foods and offer free delivery for small covered area. To check whether a coordinate is still covered by its service, I need to calculate the distance. There are many PHP functions shown up when we searched "calculate distance between two coordinates php", but I need the result to closely match with Google because I display the covered area in Google map.

Problem

Eloquent ORM included with Laravel provides a simple ActiveRecord implementation for working with database. Each database table has a corresponding "Model" which is used to interact with that table. Models allow you to query for data in your tables, as well as insert new records into the table.

Background

Seasoned (read: old) PHP programmer definitely must have used this MySQL extension most of the time. Build a quick and dirty demo application or proof of concept application, this extension is pretty straightforward. The MySQL extension is the oldest of the three and was the original option developers used to communicate with MySQL. However, this extension is now being deprecated in PHP 5.5 and removed in PHP 7.0. So the choice now is between the other two alternatives because of improvements made in newer releases of both PHP and MySQL and security issues.