More than once I needed to render a laravel view as a downlodable file. This task could be easily accomplished

Learn how to use a relational DBMS as authentication provider for Shibboleth IDP instead of default LDAP

In this tutorial I will show how to define a Laravel validation rule providing a custom alias string to use in custom validation classes.

Classes with a lot of lines of code are generally bad. Too many responsibilities, low cohesion, or both. However, sometimes it is not possible to make functions smaller. Reasons could be various. What can be done in this circumstance?