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…
Laravel Homestead includes a lot of software, but unfortunately does not have PhpMyAdmin.  You can always install it on nginx, but if you have it already on your host system (for example, as a part of xampp package), you can always configure it as a Nginx site. First of all, you need to edit your config.inc.php file.  At…
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.
When you extensively work with certain APIs, like Shopify’s for example, you will end up with bunch of functions that map to API’s endpoints. One of the approaches I have seen so far is to create an API class ShopifyApi and make those functions class methods. So it looks something like the figure below. I…