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Sometimes, you want your application to confirm user identities even when they are logged in. This is especially useful for sensitive routes and actions like deleting a user-owned resource, updating a delivery address, or completing a financial transaction where you want to be sure that the user’s session hasn’t been hijacked. This process is called re-authentication and is supported by the Laravel framework out of the box with the password.confirm middleware.
In this tutorial, we will implement a new Laravel middleware that asks users to verify themselves before allowing them to access select routes. Our sample application is a notes application where we need to confirm a user’s identity before they can delete an existing note. The verification is done using a code sent to their Authy application, though you can replace that with a regular SMS if you so chose.
Jump directly to the Implement the Verification Middleware section …
Laravel Livewire is a library for building reactive and dynamic interfaces using Blade as your templating engine. It works by making AJAX requests to the server when a user interaction occurs and rendering the updated HTML sent to it by the server.
In this tutorial, we will build a live search page for a list of users stored in a MySQL database. The reactive parts of our interface such as changing loading state, dynamically showing and hiding parts of the web page, etc will be handled by Livewire.
Pre-requisites
To complete this tutorial, you will need the following:
- Composer, npm, and Laravel (version 8.26.1 is used in this article) installed on your computer.
- MySQL installed (for FULLTEXT indexes support).
Set up Laravel, Livewire, and Tailwind CSS
To get started, generate a fresh Laravel application with the Laravel CLI and enter the directory with the commands below:
$ laravel …
Internet slang evolves so rapidly that it’s easy to get lost in communication while texting without the help of linguistic services like Urban Dictionary. Wouldn’t it be great if you could easily query new colloquialisms on the go?
In this tutorial, we will build a handy WhatsApp bot that gives us the Urban Dictionary definition of words. It will leverage the Twilio API for WhatsApp and the Urban Dictionary API to find and provide the definitions we need, on demand.
Prerequisites
In order to follow along with this tutorial, you will need the following:
- PHP (version 7.2 or higher to use the latest version of Bref)
- Composer, npm, and the Serverless CLI installed
- A Twilio Account
- ngrok installed (to use your local server as a webhook URL)
Get Started
If you are using a UNIX or Mac OS system, create and enter into the project folder …
By default, browsers implement a same-origin policy that prevents scripts from making HTTP requests across different domains. Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS for short) provides a mechanism through which browsers and server-side applications can agree on requests that are allowed or restricted.
From version 7, the Laravel framework comes with first-party support for sending CORS headers using Middlewares.
In this tutorial, we'll be building a simple Vue.js app powered by Laravel to learn about CORS. We will take a deep-dive into the various configuration options needed by Laravel to handle CORS OPTIONS requests and see how some of these options affect our application.
Prerequisites
In order to complete this tutorial, you will need the following:
- Familiarity with the Laravel framework
- An existing project with Laravel framework version >= 7.0.
- Vue CLI installed.
Getting Started
Create a new folder to hold both the Laravel API and the Vue project, and create …
Sending emails from your Laravel app is a common requirement, but sometimes, you want to receive and process the replies programmatically as well. SendGrid lets you process inbound emails with Inbound Parse. Inbound Parse allows you to provide a webhook URL to process all incoming emails for a domain or subdomain. Subdomains are recommended as they don’t affect your regular domain emails.
In this tutorial, we will be building a blog application where users can comment on a post by replying to a transaction email.
Prerequisites
To complete this tutorial, you will need:
- Composer and the Laravel installer on your machine.
- An authenticated domain on SendGrid. You can follow the guide here to set one up.
- Ngrok installed (for creating a tunnel on your localhost)
Create Migrations and Models
To get started, create a new Laravel project in your preferred location (I am naming mine sg-inbound), switch to …
Bref is a composer package that helps you deploy your PHP applications as AWS Lambda functions. It leverages the Serverless Framework to provision and deploy such applications, and provides support for common frameworks like Laravel, Symfony, and Slim PHP.
In a previous article, we explored how we can use the Bref PHP framework to forward errors from our Twilio application to a Slack channel. In this article, we will revisit Bref by building a service that verifies users’ phone numbers using the Twilio Verify API.
Prerequisites
To complete this tutorial, you will need:
- Composer and npm installed on your computer.
- A Twilio Account
- A root AWS Account (to create an IAM user)
- cURL or Postman installed to test our application endpoints
- The Serverless CLI
Create a Twilio Verify Service
To get started, head over to your Twilio Verify Console and create a new Verify Service. Take …
Serverless applications are applications that are built, deployed, and then executed on-demand. The servers on which they run are provided by the cloud platform to which they are deployed, and the developer only needs to focus on writing the code.
The on-demand aspect ensures that the developer is only charged for execution time, as opposed to being charged for a fixed amount of bandwidth or a specific number of servers.
Bref is an open-sourced project that lets you create and deploy serverless applications, called functions, to AWS Lambda using PHP. It integrates with the Serverless Framework which abstracts the operations involved in deploying and monitoring such applications.
In this tutorial, you will be building a webhook for the Twilio Console Debugger that gets triggered when there is an error with (any of) your Twilio application(s) and send the payload to Slack.
Prerequisites
To follow along, you will need:
- PHP 7.2 …
Progressive Web Applications (PWAs) are installable websites that provide an app-like experience for your users. They are made possible through technologies like Service Workers and responsive designs, which enable them to provide nearly the same user experience as native applications.
The Twilio Notify API enables you to send notifications to your users across different channels - Web, SMS, Android, and iOS - using a single API.
In this article, we will be building a recipe PWA with Laravel and Vue.js, with the ability to notify our users when a new post is available using the Twilio Notify API.
Prerequisites
To get started with this tutorial you will need the following dependencies:
- Laravel CLI, MySQL, Composer, and NPM installed on your computer
- Basic knowledge of Laravel
- Basic knowledge of Vue.js
- A Twilio Account (Create an Account for Free)
- A Firebase account (We will be using …
Twilio Sync is a service provided by Twilio that helps you keep your application state in sync across different services. Specifically, it provides a “stack-agnostic” API that helps you add real-time capabilities to your application.
In this article, we will explore how we can build a custom real-time API analytics tool powered by Sync Lists, a Sync primitive type that helps us synchronize individual JSON objects.
NOTE: You can learn more about Sync Lists and other primitives from the Twilio Sync Object Overview.
Prerequisites
To complete this tutorial you will need the following:
- Laravel CLI, Composer, and npm installed on your computer
- Basic knowledge of Laravel
- Basic knowledge of Vue.js
- A Twilio Account
- cURL or Postman installed to test our API endpoints
Creating the Sample Application
We will generate a fresh application with the Laravel installer and enter into the project directory with:
$ laravel …
Occasionally, your application needs to perform some routine tasks in timed intervals such as sending out weekly reports to an administrator or sending monthly updates to your users.
Traditionally, such routine tasks are carried out via individual cron jobs that trigger a shell script or the part of the code to be executed. As the application grows and the number of tasks we need to run increases, cron jobs quickly become difficult to maintain, especially as they don’t come with error reporting/handling features and they can’t be placed in a Version Control System such as Git.
The Laravel Task Scheduler allows us to define our tasks as code while leveraging all of the logging and error handling features available in the framework. With the scheduler, we only need to define a single cron entry that executes the schedule at an interval.
What are we Building?
In this tutorial, we …