Tag · Testing

Laravel 5.4 introduces a new HTTP testing layer that replaces a lot of the testing helpers that came with 5.3.

Out of the box, Laravel provides two traits for helping you work with the database in your tests.

Clockwork is a browser extension, providing tools for debugging and profiling your PHP applications, including request data, application log, database queries, routes, visualisation of application runtime and more.

This package helps you to find out which content works on your site and which doesn't.

By default, from version 5 Laravel supports attribute casting. If we define $cast property on our model, Laravel will help us convert defined attributes to common data types. Currently supported cast types (Laravel 5.6) are: integer, real, float, double, string, boolean, object, array, collection, date, datetime and timestamp.