Ed Zynda

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Using Faker To Populate Your Laravel Projects During Development

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I’m a very visual person so when I’m developing something, I like see and interact with my projects exactly how I would if it was in the production stage. The problem is, I don’t have a handful of test users on call to register on my test application and start using it. Laravel already has an easy way to populate your databases with users and other data but there’s still some manual data entry involved.…

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Use Laravel's Eloquent ORM Outside Of Laravel

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Working with databases in Laravel is ridiculously easy thanks to Eloquent. Eloquent allows you to map database tables as simple model objects that include various methods for retrieving and updating the database. While working on other people’s code, however, I’m usually not lucky enough to be working with something as enjoyable as Laravel. Thankfully Laravel is written in such a way that some of it’s key components can be used as stand-alone modules.…

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