Eloquent Hidden Features

[kevinb1989]

Hi team,

My name's Kevin Bui, senior developer at Banxa.

I started working with Laravel in 2014. Since then, I have been contributing to Stackoverflow, Laracasts Forum, and the Laravel docs on mostly Eloquent topics.

I would like to give a talk about Eloquent secret features, those that are unpopular or not documented in the official docs. But in numerous scenarios, they shine.

I have delivered the same talk in Feb 2023 at my company and Melbourne PHP Meetup, both with positive feedback.

Those features are:

• the replicate method.
• the wasRecentlyCreated property.
• the whereKey/whereKeyNot methods.
• the relations property.
• Take actions quietly.
• macros
• mixins

Briefly mentioned:

• the sole method.
• the explain method.
• the setAttribute method.

I am living in Melbourne, happen to travel to Brisbane at the end of this month.

[gregskerman]

This sounds great. We'd love to have you present. Please note that we are limiting talks to 20 minutes for the meetup, as we're time limited at our venue. If this is acceptable, we'll schedule you in.

[kevinb1989]

Hi @gregskerman

No problem, I will cut some trivial content then. Let's do this!

[gregskerman]

Great! Will update the meetup with your details. We'll be in touch in a little while to discuss logistics. Note the talk will be live streamed on Youtube.

[kevinb1989]

Flight booked, I will be there, see you then!