🚀 I Doxswap – A Laravel Package Supporting 80 Document Conversions!

Hey everyone! 👋

I’m excited to introduce Doxswap, a Laravel package that makes document conversion seamless! 🚀

Doxswap supports 80 different document conversions, allowing you to easily transform files between formats such as:

✅ DOCX → PDF
✅ XLSX → CSV
✅ PPTX → PDF
✅ SVG → PNG
✅ TXT → DOCX
✅ And many more!

This package uses LibreOffice to perform high-quality document conversions directly within Laravel.

# ✨ Features

✅ Supports 80 different document conversions
✅ Works with Laravel Storage Drivers
✅ Converts Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Images, and more!
✅ Handles cleanup after conversion
✅ Compatible with Laravel 9, 10, 11, 12
✅ Simple and Easy to Use API

Doxswap usage

# 💡 Why I Built This

I needed a self-hosted, open-source solution for document conversion in Laravel, but most existing options were paid (I've spent thousands), outdated, or lacked flexibility. So I built Doxswap to solve this problem! 💪

I’d love your feedback, feature requests, and contributions! If you find it useful, please star ⭐ the repo and let me know what you think! 🚀

Doxswap is currently in pre-release, you can take a look at the package and documentation here 🔗 https://github.com/Blaspsoft/doxswap

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Issue 52 of A Day With Laravel : Design Patterns, Livewire 3.6, Laravel Vue Starter Kit, Eloquentize and OWASP Laravel Cheat Sheets are discussed

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Hello Laravel friends 👋

Today in "**A Day With Laravel**", I present the following topics :

* 15 Laravel Design Patterns for Peak Performance, Scalability & Efficiency
* What's new in Livewire 3.6
* A deep dive presentation of Laravel Vue Starter Kit *by Christoph Rumpel*
* A solution to manage multiple Laravel applications : Eloquentize
* A topic about security with a Cheat Sheet about Laravel's Security *by OWASP*

I really hope this free content brings value to you.

Let me know in comment what do you think about it.

See you on the next issue.

[https://go.itanea.fr/adwl52](https://go.itanea.fr/adwl52)

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Anonymous functions.

Trying to understand if I need to use anonymous functions. The following code seems to be about the same.

<?php

$greet = function($name) {

echo $name;

};



$greet('World');



echo"<br>";

//==============================================



function showname($name2){

echo $name2;

}



showname("Texas");



?>

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PSA: Laracon US CFP still open!

Hey y'all this year [Laracon US takes](https://laracon.us/) place July 29-30 in Denver, CO. Our [CFP form is still open](https://frequent-pick-a8d.notion.site/1843f372b480802c9cf8ffb63a2c51f5?pvs=105) and we'd love to have submissions from the community. All you need to apply is your name, email, brief denoscription, and 1-2 minute recording of you speaking. A good proposal generally has the following attributes:

* Clearly frames the problem you're trying to solve
* Explains the technology you're using
* Has examples, code samples, or a demo to show

Lmk if you have any questions, hope to see you there!

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Laravel AI Agent Development Made Easy
https://towardsdev.com/laravel-ai-agent-development-made-easy-ac7ddd17a7d0

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How to migrate router middleware in Laravel to Symfony?

As a developer with years of experience using Laravel, we've implemented numerous router middleware in our projects, applying various middleware to individual routes and route groups. Now I want to migrate part of the functionality to Symfony. After reviewing Symfony's documentation, I see only listeners are available. However, implementing Laravel-style middleware using listeners would be extremely cumbersome, requiring pattern matching against routes using various regular expressions. Is there a more efficient approach to accomplish this?

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PHPoker: Library and Hand Evaluator

If anybody is interested, I posted about it awhile ago, finally got around to finishing it.

♦️♥️♣️♠️ PHPoker
https://github.com/PHPoker/Poker

A PHP library for working with playing cards, specifically poker (based on Nuno's Skeleton-PHP, great package).

It started off as a port of Kevin "CactusKev" Suffecool's Poker Hand Evaluator (both 5/7 card), written in C, and then I added some additional stuff to round it out and improve the developer experience a bit.

I am sure the direct C implementation Kevin will be more performant, but this is actually a very faithful port of his algorithm, including the "perfect hash" improvements contributed by Paul Senzee. Since PHP is written in C under the hood, it may not actually be as far behind as one would expect. I will do some real performance benchmarks soon and add to the ReadMe.

My version is also nicer to use from a development perspective, if I do say so myself.

Check it out, let me know what you think, or feel free to submit an issue, PR, or idea via GitHub. 🙏

Also - shoutout to CactusKev, not only for sharing his code with the detailed explanations, but he actually responded to an e-mail I sent. There was a typo on his example code which caused me some headaches before I figured it out and let him know. He was super humble and supportive that people were still using his code, and seemed like a cool and smart guy. 🌵🧊

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From “You will fail” to 15,000 GitHub stars: The story of Wasp
https://itnext.io/from-you-will-fail-to-15-000-github-stars-the-story-of-wasp-a-laravel-for-js-full-stack-5f9b810a5669

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I’ve been developing with Laravel for 10 years—here’s why I stopped using Service + Repository
https://medium.com/@poopoo888888/stop-using-service-repository-in-laravel-a-better-architecture-for-small-medium-businesses-bb44ab7bad0b

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Commenter[2.3.0]: Now You Can Reference Individual Comments as Requested
https://github.com/Lakshan-Madushanka/laravel-comments/releases/tag/2.3.0

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Integrating YOLO AI Predictions into a Laravel Project
https://medium.com/p/0160f77227e0

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Unicode: A Type-Safe Unicode Character Package

Hey, everyone!

Lately, I’ve been working a lot with Unicode characters, both actual symbols in UTF-8 and their escape sequences in other encodings. Managing the different variants and remembering escape sequences alongside the actual symbols (e.g., \u2190 => →) became a bit cumbersome. I also wanted a type-safe way to handle them, so inspired by spatie/emoji I built this package!

Example usage:

// Output a right arrow
echo Unicode::RIGHTARROW; // Outputs →

// Convert to escaped Unicode sequence
echo Unicode::escape(Unicode::RIGHTARROW); // Outputs \u2190


Would love to hear your thoughts and suggestions! It doesn’t cover every case yet, so if you think something useful is missing, feel free to reach out—or even better, send a PR!

https://github.com/rayblair06/unicode

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logic that decide how data is displayed, in twig or controller??

What s the right way?

Let s say I hav data to be displayed in table format. Data row that meets certain threshold will be displayed in certain color.

Do I put if else statement in twig? Or is there more elegant way?

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Introducing Neuron AI – Create full featured AI Agents in PHP

Hi to all PHP engineers, I'm Valerio, CTO of Inspector
I'm very exited to share the release of Neuron AI, an open source framework for integrating AI agents into your existing PHP applications.

https://inspector.dev/introduction-to-neuron-ai-create-full-featured-ai-agents-in-php/

In the last year, I struggled a lot mainly because the PHP ecosystem to develop this kind of “Agentic” features into existing applications it’s not as advanced and rich as it is in other technologies.

In this article I jot down why I decided to release this internal tool as an open source project and what is the market opportunity for me and the PHP community.

I hope it could be the right tool for PHP developers to build AI agents into their products with stronger foundations.

Feel free to write your feedback, share this tool with other PHP friends, or contact me for further information.

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Laravel Microservice Course Introduction
https://youtu.be/P_UZ9no5VP8

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Has anyone tried this (curious)

So I'm curious about something that I haven't tried myself yet, time permitting I will soon. Has anyone ever attempted sending the browser's DOM to their PHP server, manipulating the DOM with PHP and then sent it back to the browser replacing the original DOM to render stuff. I don't mind if it's a bad idea I'm just brain farting. Please tell me your experience.

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Laravel and Massive Historical Data: Scaling Strategies

Hey guys

I'm developing a project involving real-time monitoring of offshore oil wells. Downhole sensors generate pressure and temperature data every 30 seconds, resulting in \~100k daily records. So far, with SQLite and 2M records, charts load smoothly, but when simulating larger scales (e.g., 50M), slowness becomes noticeable, even for short time ranges.

Reservoir engineers rely on historical data, sometimes spanning years, to compare with current trends and make decisions. My goal is to optimize performance without locking away older data. My initial idea is to archive older records into secondary tables, but I'm curious how you guys deal with old data that might be required alongside current data?

I've used SQLite for testing, but production will use PostgreSQL.

(PS: No magic bullets needed—let's brainstorm how Laravel can thrive in exponential data growth)

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What folders/files do you typically hide in VS Code when working with Laravel projects?

I’ve been working on Laravel projects in VS Code, and I’ve noticed that there are a lot of folders and files that aren’t directly relevant to my day-to-day coding (e.g., vendor, node_modules, etc.). To keep my workspace clean, I’ve started hiding some of these in VS Code.
I’m curious, what folders or files do you typically hide in your Laravel projects?
Are there any best practices or recommendations for managing the VS Code workspace to improve productivity?

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Simplifying Status Management in Laravel with laravel-model-status
https://github.com/thefeqy/laravel-model-status

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I made this Ecommerce Website with PHP backend language - Can you review?
https://youtu.be/dQsrMmNf7Xc

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Understanding Official Starter Kit options as a Laravel newbie

I'm a newbie to laravel and I come from the javanoscript world. Am I understanding the starter kit's Livewire flavour correctly that it uses Flux UI which is a paid option?

Not complaining about it, but wanted to know if I should stick with my familiar Vue Inertia combo (shadcn-vue is free & open-source) or go the Livewire path (learning curve here for me). Just want to clarify this before I go too far with either and then discovering these kinda facts. Thanks!

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