Batch Importing Records with Laravel using Laravel Excel

Posted in Composer Packages, Laravel on Apr 06, 2016

This article outline a fast way to import a CSV or Excel files into your Mysql database using Laravel & Laravel Excel (A composer package). This assumes you are familiar with Laravel (Controlers, Eloquent) and the composer package manager.

Create a new Laravel Project from scratch using Vagrant & Scotchbox in Linux.

Posted in Composer Packages, Laravel, Vagrant on Feb 01, 2016

This post will quickly guide you in the process of creating a new Laravel Project using Vagrant, Scotchbox & the Laravel installer.

If you are using windows, you can run the same commands by installing Git Bash

Requirements:

• Vagrant, VirtualBox & Git
• Undertand basic git commands or know hot to copy/paste.
• Linux or Gitbash.

Create a new Virtual Enviroment

Lets start with a new Laravel Project, In this case I will create a new project inside a VirtualBox enviroment using Vagrant and my favorite Box called Scotchbox.

git clone https://github.com/scotch-io/scotch-box

Navitage inside the newly ...