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The cookie function is generally used to create a new instance of the "\Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Cookie" class. If the supplied $name is null an implementation of "\Illuminate\Contracts\Cookie\Factory" (which is an instance of...

Before writing any more code, we need to take a moment to understand exactly what it is we are trying to analyze. Let's consider the following example input: where(name, =, 'Alice\'s name')|where(author, =, '\\')|is:published(true) This input...

PHP version 5.3 introduced a new feature called anonymous functions, or lambda functions. You may have come across them in other languages such as C# or Ruby. They allow for greater flexibility and offer a clean, expressive syntax. Anonymous...

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Update You can view the completed part two of this article by visiting Part Two: Creating a Custom Pagination View in Laravel In this post we are going to look at building a custom paginator view in Laravel 4. There are quite a few posts are the...

For this blog post, our compiler implementation will remain limited in scope and focus on being able to compile the simple counting example from the introduction. Our compiler needs to be able to accomplish the following: Detect and parse our...