laravel-goodies

My collection of Laravel snippets/goodies/tricks/tips feel free to add some...

• Events
• Add Whoops error handler
• Use webpack with different public path (or shared hosting)
• Trusted proxies without any packages

Events

Listen to all events. Put in EventServiceProvider boot()

Event::listen('*',function($eventName, array $data){
    var_dump($eventName,$data);//dump event name + data in response
    if ($eventName!="Illuminate\Log\Events\MessageLogged")//without it it will be recursion!
        Log::info($eventName);
});

List of some events:

• laravel.done
• laravel.log
• laravel.query
• laravel.resolving
• laravel.composing: {viewname}
• laravel.started: {bundlename}
• laravel.controller.factory
• laravel.config.loader
• laravel.language.loader
• laravel.view.loader
• laravel.view.engine
• view.filter
• eloquent.saving
• eloquent.updated
• eloquent.created
• eloquent.saved
• eloquent.deleting
• eloquent.deleted
• eloquent.booted: {$model}
• eloquent.booting: {$model}
• 500
• 404

Whoops

composer require filp/whoops

Add these methods to file: app/Exceptions/Handler.php

public function render($request, Exception $e)
    {
        if ($this->isHttpException($e))
        {
            return $this->renderHttpException($e);
        }


        if (config('app.debug'))
        {
            return $this->renderExceptionWithWhoops($e);
        }
        return parent::render($request, $e);
    }
    protected function renderExceptionWithWhoops(Exception $e)
    {
        $whoops = new \Whoops\Run;
        $whoops->pushHandler(new \Whoops\Handler\PrettyPageHandler());

        return new \Illuminate\Http\Response(
            $whoops->handleException($e),
            $e->getStatusCode(),
            $e->getHeaders()
        );
    }

Webpack

If you use different public folders (For example shared hosting) like public_html instead of public you can get JS,CSS files published in wrong path. There is easy workaround..But only on UNIX system. All you have to do is: create symbolic link to your real public folder. So Laravel will treat your different folder like public!

ln -s public_html public 
ls -al ./public #check it
npm run dev #now your files are published in right place

You can also put laravel in some different folder for example public_html/lara. This is useful o shared hosting! Example structure:

public_html/

index.php

lara/artisan

lara/...all laravel framework stuff

To make it work change paths in: public_html/index.php:

require __DIR__.'/lara/bootstrap/autoload.php';...
$app = require_once __DIR__.'/lara/bootstrap/app.php';

Also make symbolic link:

cd public_html/lara
ln -s ../ public 
ls -al ./public #check it

Proxies

Sometimes trusted proxy packages like fideloper/TrustedProxy cant help you, because you need to register trusted proxies earlier. Without any package you can do it in AppServiceProvider, so trusted proxies will be registered before middleware and just with 2 lines of code:

 public function register()
    {
        $request=$this->app->make('request');
        $request->setTrustedProxies(['proxy ip']);
        //...