DB Resource Usage

As a rule, dates in a database are stored in UTC. So, when you export records from database constrained by dates, it is a good idea to use appropriate timezone in export query. You can do it in one of two ways. One way is create incoming dates in user’s timezone, then covert time to…

The backbone of Laravel is service container.  Service container is used for resolving classes and dependency injection.  Container comes as a standalone package, so you don’t have to have Laravel installed to use it.  Service container can be very handy when testing.  Let’s look at how we can use it . Our basic set up…

In Laravel framework you can create commands and call them from php application.  One command can call another command, and another command, and so on.  But if an exception is thrown in one of the commands in this chain the whole chain breaks.  In order to avoid this problem and run each artisan command as…

Since an API client is a boundary between your code and the outside world you should write as little code as possible to implement it. The client should strictly do its job by sending a request and returning a response. That is why we don’t really test the clients themselves but rather the code that processes the response from the client.