Mailroom Clerk

When working on a php package it is inconvenient to push the package to github (or other repository) and then wait for the package to update using composer update.  For package development, composer has such feature as path repositories.  Let’s imagine we have a two folders on the same level:  my-app and  package.   my-app is an app — a test…

Sometimes you need to export a large amount of data from your database.  Obviously, if you are going to accumulate all data in an array and then write it to a csv file, you will eventually run out of memory.  A better solution is to use streams.  Here is how you can export data from…

Recently Beyondcode came out with a web sockets package for Laravel.  For my mailroom project I decided to add push notifications when a service receives a webhook.  This a great use case for Laravel WebSockets package.  In this article we will take a look at how to install it as a service using Docker and use…

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.

Adding email headers in Laravel application is quite simple. SwiftMessage can be customized using withSwiftMessage method of Mailable base class: https://laravel.com/docs/8.x/mail#customizing-the-swiftmailer-message However you have to remember to do it every time you create a new “mailable” class. Some mail APIs require you to put a special header each time you send an email. In this…