Lumen is a "micro-framework" built on top of Laravel's components, and is the official micro-framework of Laravel. Lumen is built for speed, and is one of the fastest PHP micro-frameworks available - even significantly faster than similar frameworks such as Silex.For more information about how to get started with Lumen, check out the Lumen Documentation,...

I was amazed to find that this tutorial worked. I have been through the process many times myself, but have always ended up paying for the signing of a SSL certificate. Following this guide, I was able to install a valid SSL certificate on this blog (blog.enge.me) in less than 20 minutes!Thanks Konklone for a great tutorial!UPDATE: The SSL certificate...

Testing RESTful controllers can be diffucult. Fortunately, Laravel makes creating these controllers incredibly easy. But at the end of the day, you still have to make POST requests to the controller in order to test its functionality.For me, it makes more sense to build the controller BEFORE the UI itself, therefore when I'm writing the controllers,...

Laravel Forge has been out for just over two months now, and has gained outstanding popularity within the Laravel community, and has also attracted the attention of non-Laravel developers. It truly has done exactly what it was set out to do: "Super simple from download to deployment."Forge works by accessing your VPS via SSH and executing the commands...

MailCatcher runs a super simple SMTP server which catches any message sent to it to display in a web interface. Run mailcatcher, set your favourite app to deliver to smtp://127.0.0.1:1025 instead of your default SMTP server, then check out http://127.0.0.1:1080 to see the mail that's arrived so far.I found MailCatcher to be incredibly useful while testing...

This week is Laracon 2014! Not only have the talks been amazing, and the hints to Laravel 4.2 been enticing, but the news has been outstanding! With Taylor's big announcement the centerfold of his Keynote, Laravel Forge is going to blow you away!The ProblemToday, in the world of server provisioning and application deployment, there are a plethera of...