When developing application, it is rather common that we need to load only one relation object even though the table relationships are one-to-many. For instance, most of the time we only need the latest status if a record has many historical statuses. In that case, we can actually use hasOne…

When creating an application or API endpoint, one of the most often neglected part is validation on the request. After all, why bother adding limitations if it is already working as intended? However, neglecting this part might cause more problem down the road. We shouldn’t expect users to always submit…

Introduction When building a multi-tenant web application, one of the common pattern is to use subdomain as a gateway to separate between different tenants. (For example, https://company-one.example.com would show the page/data for Company One whereas https://company-two.example.com would show for Company Two.) In Laravel 5, to define a route to subdomain and…

CSV file is one of the most common method for your application users to import/insert multiple records. Instead of creating the resource one-by-one by navigating through the page, they could just easily edit the CSV file in Spreadsheet program such as Microsoft Excel. However, there seems to be no built…