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

LaravelVisitor is a Visitor Design Pattern implementation for Laravel. It allows to easily execute processing of collections of arbitrary elements, without requiring to use repeated conditionals, thus improving code abstraction.

This article describes a way of implementing Strategy design pattern using a database-based runtime configuration. The approach allows to dynamically (re)configure class behavior without requiring code-based rearrangements.

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