Warrick Bayman

Owner of THEPUBLICGOOD, all round geek. I also ride bicycles and swim in the sea.

📍 Gqeberha, South Africa https://thepublicgood.dev

Laravel Eloquent relationships have a bunch of "with" methods you might not know about.

Eloquent is the database ORM that is included with Laravel. Taylor Otwell recently stated that it's one of the most complex pieces of Laravel to maintain. Yet it's probably one of the most important reasons why Laravel has become to super popular. You may already have a good handle of

Laravel model presenters with the Reflection API

There are many instances where I've needed to format data stored in a model so it can be presented in a view somehow. In the passed I've approached this particular problem in a few different ways, and yes, I could easily format that data directly in the view, but that

Laravel, Vue and Inertia with Vite

Webpack is great… but there might be better. This post was originally published on Medium on the 22nd October, 2021. This article has been recently updated to reflect changes in Tailwind version 3.But first… some shameless self promotionVite is a fantastic piece of software and if you’re keen

Stop Saying PHP Is Dead.

It isn’t. PHP is not dead. It isn’t dying and it isn’t reaching “end-of-life”. That’s it. No matter how much some people want it to go away, it isn’t going away. At least, not for a long time.