Transcoding Videos for Web Streaming with FFmpeg using Laravel Queues

I’ve been working on a project where we were using AWS elastic transcoder for media conversion. Elastic transcoder is a highly scalable solution for media transcoding. However, it charges your per minute for media conversion depending on your region. Continue reading “Transcoding Videos for Web Streaming with FFmpeg using Laravel Queues”

Building an Image Gallery with Laravel and React

Today we are building an image gallery with Laravel and React. We are going to use react-dropzone to build an image uploader. react-dropzone is a  React’s implementation of popular drag and drop library for file uploading. On the backend, we are going to use Laravel’s Storage API to store images.  Continue reading “Building an Image Gallery with Laravel and React”

Integrating Pinterest API in Laravel

In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to integrate and use Pinterest API in your Laravel Application. At first, I wanted to use dirkgroenen/pinterest-api-php which would work flawlessly for any PHP project but I faced an issue when trying to integrate it into Laravel. Continue reading “Integrating Pinterest API in Laravel”

Using Google Drive REST API with Laravel

In this tutorial, we’ll be using Google Drive REST API with Laravel application. We’ll authenticate the user with OAuth service and retrieve their access token. We’ll then use it to manage their drive data and perform read and write operations on their behalf.  Continue reading “Using Google Drive REST API with Laravel”

Building a Cryptocurrency App using React, React Router v4 and Laravel

Previous versions of React Router used a static routing approach for building single page applications where you would define a route to render a component against it after it matches the specified URL. Continue reading “Building a Cryptocurrency App using React, React Router v4 and Laravel”

Laravel 5.6 : Posting to Profiles and Pages with Facebook PHP SDK

Let’s get started by creating a new Laravel project by running

composer create project laravel/laravel acme

Add laravel/socialite and facebook/graph-sdk to composer.json file

Continue reading “Laravel 5.6 : Posting to Profiles and Pages with Facebook PHP SDK”

Laravel 5.6 : Social Authentication with Laravel Socialite

After a fresh Laravel installation run php artisan make:auth to generate the conventional form-based authentication scaffolding that will take care of your applications entire authentication system by setting up routes, views, and controllers for registration, authentication and password reset. Continue reading “Laravel 5.6 : Social Authentication with Laravel Socialite”

How to use Laravel Task Scheduler on Windows 10

Creating and running Laravel’s scheduled tasks is pretty straightforward on Linux. All you have to do is to create a cronjob which looks something like

* * * * * php /path-to-your-project/artisan schedule:run >> /dev/null 2>&1

and it will call your Laravel command scheduler every minute to execute due tasks. Continue reading “How to use Laravel Task Scheduler on Windows 10”