The Collection class provides a handful of static helper functions that help in the creation of new collection instances.Laravel 5 Collections Static API: Creating a New Collection Instance From Arrays Using make, Laravel 5 Collections Static API:...

Laravel 4 offers Views, a way to separate your applications controllers and business logic from your presentation layer. Sometimes, it can be useful to render the view into a local variable instead of outputting it to the client. You are probably...

The "Illuminate\Translation\Translator" class is the class that most Laravel developers will become the most familiar with when interacting with the Laravel translation services. The Translator class is responsible for handling the interactions...

…nction accepts two arguments, the name of the $file to find the path for and the $buildDirectory to look in. By default, the $buildDirectory is set to build . The build directory is relative to the applications public directory ( app/public ). As...

…utilizing the Macroable trait; there are not that many of them, but that does not detract from the fact that the Macroable trait is incredibly useful.The following additional articles discuss the various methods that make up the macro's public...

The fetch helper function has been deprecated as of Laravel 5.1 in favor of the pluck helper function. Additionally, the An Extended Example of Retrieving Unique Data Using Laravel Helper Functions article from the original publication provides...

This article is part of a two part series covering the Laravel Fluent API. The articles in this series are: Laravel Fluent Part One: Introduction, Laravel Fluent Part Two: The Public API The Illuminate\Support\Fluent class is a useful data type....