laravel-4

I use Str::slug to generate friendly URL's, however Str::slug() method returns null on arabic and hindi strings. Probably chinese, japanese, korean and those charsets too. For example: return Str::slug('मनोरंजन'); //null How can I solve this issue efficiently? I have faced this problem when I was working with Arabic language, so I've made the following function which solved the problem for me. function make_slug($string = null, $separator = "-") { if (is_null($string)) { return ""; } // Remove spaces from the beginning and from the end of the string $string = trim($string); // Lower case

I'm new in Laravel 5. I found this Laravel 5 - Remove public from URL on Stack Overflow to remove public folder from my Laravel 5 App. Only I have a question about the security. When I am removing public from URL, then I have to change the basic folder structure of Laravel 5. Yes, it's working fine without the public from the URL. But what's about the security of Laravel, because I am changing the default folder structure? Is it secure to use? You should be pointing your Apache host root to the $LARAVEL_PATH/public directory instead of $LARAVEL_PATH . The point of having sub directory for www

How can I sort my result with related tables? I have this tables: Clients and Managers (users table) Client.php <?php class Client extends Eloquent { protected $table = 'clients'; public function Manager(){ return $this->belongsTo('User','manager','id'); } public function Transaction(){ return $this->hasMany('ClientTransaction','client','id'); } } Users.php (default Laravel's model) My question is how can I query table clients to be sorted by Manager's name. Here is my code so far: public function getClients() { // Sorting preparations $allowed = array('name','contact','money'); $sort = in

Still finding my feet with Laravel 4 and I'm a little unsure as to why this isn't working. In L3 I was able to insert multiple records to a table like so... $comments = array( array('message' => 'A new comment.'), array('message' => 'A second comment.'), ); $post = Post::find(1); $post->comments()->save($comments); However when I try to do similar now either the records are inserted without the foreign key, like so... $comments = array( array('message' => 'A new comment.'), array('message' => 'A second comment.'), ); $post = Post::first(); $post->comments()->insert($comments); Or (and after