There’s a cool visual log viewer for Laravel 4/5: rap2hpoutre/laravel-log-viewer. Installation is short and straight-forward but logs shouldn’t be accessible by anyone. That’s why I setup access password. The easier, the better so this time I just used HTTP Basic Auth but without database.

I hate singletons. Some say that singletons are not bad, instead “singletonism” is the evil. I would argue. Anyway, I’ve been working on some common Singleton pattern code in PHP for a particular reason - I had to create common code for two basecodes:

1. Laravel app using Facades
2. some other custom API

Usage

class DataUtilsInst {
	use Singleton;

	public static function getClassName() {
		return '\NS\common\utils\DataUtils';
	}
}

Laravel 4 has got pretty nice Cache mechanism. Unfortunately, it’s nicety brings not too much functionality. It lacks a way to cache whole pages or partials.I have found nice plugin called Flatten which works on top of Laravel Cache and is able to do the job. What I desired was to cache partial view and also cache it’s data being created by View Composer.