Richard Bagshaw - Freelance Laravel PHP Developer

PHP Generators and Laravel Lazy Collections

4th February 2025

PHP Laravel

A common issue we often encounter when handling data in PHP is the "Allowed Memory Exhausted" error. This typically occurs when processing files or larger API responses without pagination, especially those containing hundreds of thousands of records

UseFactory Attribute added to Laravel

27th January 2025

PHP Laravel

In the latest release of Laravel a really nice little syntactic sugar has been added to the framework allowing us to define what factory a model should use if convention isn't applicable.

Using Data Transfer Objects (DTOs) in Laravel

26th January 2025

Laravel PHP Design Patterns

When building modern Laravel applications, ensuring clean, maintainable, and readable code is essential. Data Transfer Objects (DTOs) are a powerful tool to achieve this.

Catching N+1 Problems Early: Laravel's preventLazyLoading()

24th January 2025

PHP Laravel

The N+1 query problem is one of the most common performance issues in database-driven applications. While Laravel makes database interactions incredibly smooth with Eloquent ORM, it's easy to inadvertently introduce N+1 issues.