The Illuminate\Support\Collection class provides a wrapper around PHP's arrays. The Collection class has numerous methods for retrieving, setting and manipulating the data of the underlying array. Each Collection instance has an internal array...

Now that we have a basic idea of how filter expressions work, lets take a look at the default filters that are available to you when using filter expressions. There are a large number of built-in filters, organized into "namespaces". Namespaces...

Hashing data is a common task in software development. Hashing is similar to encryption, with the difference that hashing is a one-way process. The goal is that the original message cannot be retrieved from the resulting hash. Hashing is...

The two automatic array variables we have not yet looked at are the next and prev variables. These two variables provide a convenient way to access the next and previous elements of the array, respectively. For example, if we had the following...

Earlier in this article, I briefly mentioned that Statamic will first render the template and inject the rendered template's contents into the layout via. a template_contents variable. This behavior can sometimes make it non-obvious to pass...

We are going to need to resolve some things out of the IoC, so make sure to use the Illuminate\Support\Facades\App facade. In our PrettyPaginator class, add the following function: its kind of scary, but I'll explain it. When we call the...

I'll start this section by saying the gentlement behind Statamic have done a great job: the platform just works for the most part (I will say that if you are developing primarily on Windows, there will be some headache; at this point the vast...