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

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

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.

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