Implementing full-text search can significantly enhance the user experience of your portfolio or blog. This post details how to add PostgreSQL-powered full-text search to a Laravel application, focusing on accent-insensitive prefix searching across multiple fields.

The Problem: Basic Search Limitations

Simple LIKE queries in SQL often fall short when dealing with complex search

When integrating with GitHub, users sometimes encounter issues when updating the granted permissions (scopes). A recent update addresses a scenario where these updates would silently fail, leaving users confused.

The Problem

When a user attempted to update their GitHub scope (e.g., from public-only access to all repositories) via the integrations page, a failure in the Socialite OAuth

Overview

Recent development activity focused on code style consistency and updates to the database schema.

Code Formatting

Applied automated formatting fixes using php-cs-fixer. This ensures consistent code style across the project, improving readability and maintainability. The tool automatically adjusts spacing, indentation, and other stylistic elements according to predefined rules.

Introduction

After consolidating billing to a tenant-based system (Phase 3), we encountered an issue with the Cashier package. The default customer model was still set to User, causing errors when Stripe webhook events triggered.

The Problem

The stripe_id column, expected by Cashier, was not found because it was looking in the User model instead of the Tenant model.

Introduction

New community skills have been added to enhance Laravel development workflows, covering areas from API design to testing and debugging. These skills aim to provide practical guidance and best practices for building robust and maintainable applications.

New Skills Overview

The update introduces 63 new skills, focusing on key aspects of Laravel development:

Introduction

We've increased the retention period for jobs within Laravel Horizon, our Redis-powered queue monitoring dashboard. This enhancement provides a more comprehensive view of queue activity, aiding in debugging and performance analysis.

The Problem

Previously, Horizon was configured to trim recent, pending, and completed jobs after only 60 minutes.