Laravel Code Tips #1

1-) forceFill Method

#Laravel tip: You can force fill guarded fills in a model with the `forceFill` method

// In laravel you can use the forceFill method
// to fill guarded fills in a model
$user->forceFill([‘name’=>$request->name])->save();

2-) isDirty Method

#Laravel tip, the `isDirty` method:

$product = Product::first();
$product->isDirty(); // false
$product->name = “Bayram Eker”;
$product->isDirty(); //true
// You can also check a spesific field
$product->isDirty(‘name’); //true
$product->isDirty(‘price’); //false

3-) The Elvis Operator

#laravel tip. The Elvis operator.

if(!$foo) {
 $foo = “bar”;
}
$foo = $foo ?: ‘bar’;

Bonus : render()

#Laravel Blade is useful for other things besides HTML.

You can generate any type of flat file, for example, a dynamic shell script or sitemap file. You only need to call the `render()` method on a view to get the resulting string.

$script = view(‘deploy-script’)->render();
$ssh = self::createSshConnection();
Log:info(“Running commands…”);
$process = $ssh->execute(explode(“\n”,$script));

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