I released on GitHub a PHP library for querying and editing data on the Tado Thermostat System. It is integrated in Laravel 5.x for quick setup in this excellent framework.

Learn how to write Shibboleth IDP logs to a database instead of simple text file

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