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The TutsPlus.com site has a new tutorial posted for the Laravel users out there ]introducing you to the framework's broadcast functionality](https://code.tutsplus.com/tutorials/how-laravel-broadcasting-works--cms-30500). Broadcasting in Laravel provides a simple interface to sending notification (such as emails or even real-time push messages) via a standardized interface. Today, we are going to explore the concept of broadcasting in the Laravel web framework. It allows you to send notifications to the client side when something happens on the server side. In this article, we are going to use the third-party Pusher library to send notifications to the client side. If you have ever wanted to send notifications from the server to the client when something happens on a server in Laravel, you're looking for the broadcasting feature. The article walks through the scenario first and covers the basic flow of websockets and how they'd be used for messaging. From there they start in on the code, looking at the broadcast configuration and walking you through the setup of a Pusher account and the installation of the SDK. They help you configure the Laravel application for Pusher and install the Laravel Echo library for handling the messaging on the frontend. The tutorial goes through the code to create a "messages" table and hook in a "broadcast on" event. This is followed by the frontend setup including the Javascript to create the Pusher instance.

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This month, we’ll continue our popular series with the newest, most beautiful themes. Once again, I took a deep dive into the official WordPress theme index, to find ten pretty free WordPress themes for you so that you can give your website a fresh, new look. 1 – Orvis Orvis is a new theme by Automattic, the company behind WordPress. It’s meant to be used as a portfolio, or a restaurant/food theme, and presents photos in an appealing way. It comes with adjustable colors and predefined color schemes, and on top of that, it also offers a custom logo. The portfolio can be displayed anywhere using shortcodes. Created by: Automattic License: Free for personal and commercial use | GNU General Public License Prepared for translations: yes Demo: Orvis Demo Download on WordPress 2 – Tora Tora is an elegant, fresh business theme. It can be customized individually and offers a lot of options at that. Adjust the colors, the background, the landing page, and a lot more. There are predefined layouts as well, allowing for a fast start. Created by: vladff License: Free for personal and commercial use | GNU General Public License Prepared for translations: yes Demo: Tora Demo […]

There's still a debate going on in the web design community on whether video backgrounds in websites are good or bad. However, we've seen a rise in websites utilizing fullscreen video backgrounds in the past few months than ever before. But is it really an effective strategy? Does it help engage with an audience? Does […]

This article is part of our "Advanced Git" series. Be sure to follow us on Twitter or sign up for our newsletter to hear about the next articles! Most developers understand that it’s important to use branches in Git. In … The post Rebase vs. Merge: Integrating Changes in Git appeared first on CSS-Tricks. You can support CSS-Tricks by being an MVP Supporter.

Of all the retro design styles that have been trending, mid-century modern design might be one of my favorites. The phrase "mid-century modern" is more than just a staple on home improvement television shows, it's also a classic art and design style that speaks to an era. The best thing about mid-century modern design is […]

The ZFort Group blog has posted their latest PHP Digest for March 1st - 25th, 2018: Digest #15. A tool for quick smoke testing, a PHP parser in PHP, a cool extension for PhpStorm, an object graph visualizer, a library for implementing Event Sourcing in PHP apps, the lightweight in-memory message queue, and more. This digest seems to be really informative. Keep on reading! Included in this list are topics like: News about the PHP language and releases PHP internals changes (moving towards PHP 7.3) Links to various interesting and useful tools Links to other tutorials, articles and updates from various projects. The projects in that last item include Laravel, Zend Framework, Drupal and Symfony. Check out the full post for the full content.

On Friday, January 2007 the world shrank into our palms as three revolutionary products — the iPod, a phone, and a breakthrough internet communicator — were unified to create the smartphones we know and love today. The first iPhone introduced in 2007 marked the fall of Qwerty keypad and stylus. (Large preview) iPhone was built to be comfortably used for one-handed operation, allowing for a smoother thumb movement across the screen.

Accenture estimates that the video game industry has a value above $300 billion. What is at the heart of that value? Besides the fans who love their games, it is the video game developers who create the eye-catching and attention-grabbing titles. If you are one of those developers or are looking to become one, this […] The post Top Tools for Video Game Developers appeared first on Developer.com.