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May 5th 2025

How to Hide Route Parameters from Controllers in Laravel

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Laravel's route parameters are powerful, but they can also be a bit of a pain if you want to hide them from your controllers. This article will show you how to do just that.

May 5th 2025

Avoiding Eager Loading When Registering Laravel Drivers

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When registering drivers or other types of extensions for Laravel core classes, it's really easy to accidentally eager to load the service and its entire dependency tree! Fortunately, it's almost as easy to avoid it.

May 5th 2025

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