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{
  "repositories": [
      {
        "type": "path",
        "url": "../relative/project/path"
      }
    ],
    "require": {
      "${project}": "dev-${branch}"
    }

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Laravel 6 - Diving Into Pivot Tables

Pivot tables can be confusing and a little hard to wrap your head around at first. In this quick article we are going to dive into what a pivot table is, how to create one and finally how to use the pivot table. Let's dive in!

What is a pivot table?

A pivot table is used to connect relationships between two tables. Laravel provides a Many To Many relationship where you can use a pivot table.

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Never touch your local /etc/hosts file in OS X again

To setup your computer to work with *.test domains, e.g. project.test, awesome.test and so on, without having to add to your hosts file each time.

Requirements

• Homebrew
• Mountain Lion -> High Sierra

Install

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Install dnsmasq and configure for *.dev.local domains

$ brew install dnsmasq
$ vim /usr/local/etc/dnsmasq.conf

Reload configuration and clear cache

# Copy the daemon configuration file into place.
$ sudo cp $(brew list dnsmasq | grep /homebrew.mxcl.dnsmasq.plist$) /Library/LaunchDaemons/

$ sudo launchctl unload /Library/LaunchDaemons/homebrew.mxcl.dnsmasq.plist

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wildcard DNS in localhost development

• install dnsmasq

$ brew install dnsmasq
   ...
$ cp /usr/local/opt/dnsmasq/dnsmasq.conf.example /usr/local/etc/dnsmasq.conf

• edit /usr/local/etc/dnsmasq.conf

address=/local/127.0.0.1

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Artisan 
// Displays help for a given command
php artisan --help OR -h
// Do not output any message
php artisan --quiet OR -q
// Display this application version
php artisan --version OR -V
// Do not ask any interactive question
php artisan --no-interaction OR -n
// Force ANSI output

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How to add custom Mail Driver to Laravel

Tested on Laravel 5.8

Within the source code of laravel 5.8 at this time of writing, we have this following

<?php

namespace Illuminate\Support;

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First of all you need to be able to run MAMP in port 80. This is a "heat check" if you don't have any process jamming http ports. You can check it like this:

sudo lsof | grep LISTEN

If you do happen to have any process with something like this *:http (LISTEN), you are in trouble. Before with adventure check if it isn't MAMP itself (yeah, you should close that beforehand)

ps <pid of that process>

If you don't see MAMP, you are in good hands, I have just the thing for you:

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#!/bin/bash
read -p "Enter the domain name: " domainname
read -p "Enter the domain e.g. local not .local: " domain
read -p "Enter country for csr:" country
read -p "Enter county for csr:" county
read -p "Enter city for csr:" city
read -p "Enter company name for csr:" company
read -p "Enter department for csr e.g IT:" department
read -p "Enter password for certificate greater than 5 characters:" PASS
read -p "Enter howmany years for the certificate to last:" certyears

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How to create an HTTPS certificate for localhost domains

This focuses on generating the certificates for loading local virtual hosts hosted on your computer, for development only.

Do not use self-signed certificates in production ! For online certificates, use Let's Encrypt instead (tutorial).