mattstauffer.com is the personal blog of Matt Stauffer, a web developer, author, and educator specializing in Laravel, PHP, and full-stack web development. Matt shares tutorials, insights, and resources on modern web development, covering topics like backend development, JavaScript, and Laravel best practices. He is also the author of Laravel: Up & Running and a host of the Laravel Podcast. Through his blog, Matt provides practical advice for developers, project management tips, and insights into maintaining a productive development workflow. His content is designed to help developers of all levels improve their skills and stay updated with the latest trends in the web development industry.
176 Articles from this blog
Laravel Forge introduces Global Recipes and a fix for a breaking Nginx update that caused PHP white screens on servers.
How to fix the CVE-2014-6271 Bash vulnerability on Laravel Forge-managed servers, including manual update commands.
Explains Laravel 5.0's route caching feature, a performance optimization for faster route registration in PHP applications.
Laravel Forge introduces Circles for team server access and a new Forge Plus plan with unlimited servers and team management features.
Explains the new directory structure and namespace changes in Laravel 5.0, highlighting the shift from a catch-all 'app' folder to a more organized, PSR-4 compliant layout.
Explains the ValidatesWhenResolved interface in Laravel 5.0, showing how to create custom validation classes outside of FormRequests.
An overview of Laravel 5.0's Form Requests feature, which simplifies form validation and authorization.
A speaker's personal reflections on attending and presenting at the Laracon EU conference in Amsterdam, covering their talk and community observations.
A recap of a Laracon EU talk about using Laravel's components (Illuminate) in projects not built with the Laravel framework.
A guide on using Laravel's Illuminate components in non-Laravel projects, like CodeIgniter, with examples and a GitHub repository.
A guide on using Git's interactive rebase to squash multiple commits, cleaning up commit history by merging them.
An overview of three CSS methodologies: OOCSS, SMACSS, and BEM, explaining their principles and how they can be used together.
A guide to syncing remote Craft CMS sites to a local development machine, covering plugins, scripts, and tools like rsync.
A tutorial on using Laravel Forge to deploy and manage a web application on a custom AWS EC2 instance, covering setup from scratch.
A guide on using Laravel Forge Recipes to run pre-written scripts across multiple servers, using an ElasticSearch install as an example.
A guide on using Heroku's PHP buildpack locally to create a development environment that mirrors a Laravel app's Nginx setup on Heroku.
A guide on setting up wildcard subdomains in Laravel Forge to serve multiple subdomains from a single Laravel application.
A tutorial on using Laravel Forge to password-protect a folder or entire site on an Nginx server by editing the config file.
How to use Foreman and a Procfile to manage multiple local development processes like Gulp and a web server simultaneously.
A guide on adding an SSL certificate to a site deployed with Laravel Forge, referencing an external tutorial.
