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Forte Update: Backtracking, Metadata, HTML Validation, and More

2025-08-12T00:00:00+00:00

A Forte development update: the parser now supports backtracking, improvements to node metadata, identifiers, and improvements to mixed Blade/HTML parsing.

Parsing HTML and Blade Attributes in Forte

2025-08-11T00:00:00+00:00

Wrapping up attribute parsing in Forte's HTML parser, from simple HTML attributes to complex, edge-case scenarios.

Switch Statements and Parser Extensions in Forte

2025-08-09T00:00:00+00:00

Exploring how Forte's parser extensions can be used to handle complex Blade directives like nested switch statements with a cleaner, more flexible, and easily extendable approach.

Parsing Blade Comments in Forte

2025-08-08T00:00:00+00:00

Digging into parsing Blade and HTML comments while building Forte's HTML parser for Laravel Blade.

Thoughts on HTML Elements and Blade Components in Forte

2025-08-07T00:00:00+00:00

This week I’m tackling Forte's HTML parser - consolidating Blade, Flux, and Livewire components into one flexible system. Here's what’s working (and what's next).

Laracon, Blade and What's Next

2025-08-06T00:00:00+00:00

Recapping Laracon in Denver with the Statamic team, this post introduces Forte - a new Blade extensibility framework designed to simplify parsing and empower Laravel developers

That Escalated Quickly: All the New Things

2023-12-10T00:00:00+00:00

The past six months or so have been incredibly busy. What started as a new article series about customizing Statamic's search escalated quickly.

Troubleshooting a Statamic Illegal Offset Type Error when Viewing Collection Entries in the Control Panel

2023-11-30T00:00:00+00:00

In this post I talk about how I resolved a mysterious illegal offset type error when viewing collection entries within the Statamic Control Panel.

Creating Simple HTTP Redirect Routes from a Statamic Site

2023-11-29T00:00:00+00:00

Generating a custom Laravel routes file from a Statamic website to redirect to a new domain.

Disabling Vite File Hashes

2023-11-27T00:00:00+00:00

Disabling file hashes in Vite output can be accomplished by modifying your project's vite.config.js

Implementing a Custom Laravel Blade Precompiler for Volt and Livewire

2023-09-04T00:00:00+00:00

Learn how to implement a custom component compiler for Laravel's Blade templating language in this post. We will build a custom compiler that transforms custom component syntax into a Livewire component, leveraging new features provided by Volt. Follow along as we set up the Blade precompiler and parse custom Blade component syntax. Get started by grabbing the example code on GitHub, and don't forget to install the necessary dependencies.

Creating a Hybrid Cache System for Statamic: Part Five

2023-09-03T00:00:00+00:00

Part 5 of 6 covers implementing a cache namespace and labeling system, which we can use to target multiple cache entries simultaneously for invalidation.

Creating a Hybrid Cache System for Statamic: Part Four

2023-09-03T00:00:00+00:00

Part 4 of 6 covers implementing new features to set arbitrary expiration times from within a template and mechanisms to invalidate all cached responses at once.

Creating a Hybrid Cache System for Statamic: Part Six

2023-09-03T00:00:00+00:00

Part 6 of 6 covers implementing custom Artisan commands to retrieve information about our cache, invalidating responses returned from Laravel routes and controllers, excluding pages with CSRF tokens, and examples of how to integrate with third-party systems like Torchlight.

Creating a Hybrid Cache System for Statamic: Part Three

2023-09-03T00:00:00+00:00

Part 3 of 6 covers managing response headers, configuring the custom cache system, and implementing mechanisms to bypass the cache entirely.

Creating a Hybrid Cache System for Statamic: Part Two

2023-09-03T00:00:00+00:00

Part 2 of 6 covers invalidating cached responses when template changes are detected and detecting request content dependencies, such as entries, taxonomies, and assets.

Creating a Hybrid Cache System for Statamic

2023-09-03T00:00:00+00:00

Part 1 of 6 covers experimenting with various cache systems, techniques, and organization of our custom cache system.

Best Practices for Securing Your Development Projects

2023-05-04T00:00:00+00:00

Securing development projects means integrating security at each stage of development. Let's discuss the best practices to secure your development projects.

Creating a Simple Honeypot Field in Laravel

2023-04-11T00:00:00+00:00

Learn how to implement a honeypot form mechanism using Laravel. This security measure helps catch bots and automated scripts by adding an inconspicuous form field that human users should leave empty. You can implement the honeypot in two different ways: by creating a custom middleware class or by adding the logic directly to the form's action. Additionally, you can create a custom Blade directive to simplify adding the hidden field to multiple forms.

Swapping Antlers Layouts and Passing Data to Layouts

2023-04-10T00:00:00+00:00

Discover how to create a custom Statamic Tag in this step-by-step guide, enabling dynamic layout changes and sharing variables with your layouts in Antlers templates. Learn the implementation process, utilize the make:addon command, and explore the internal workings of Statamic to master custom layout behavior.

How to Structure Your Cybersecurity Team to Work in an Agile Environment

2023-02-10T00:00:00+00:00

Organizing a cybersecurity team with clear goals, skills assessment, role assignment, training, workload management, and a supervisor using agile methods helps protect against threats, improves efficiency, boosts innovation, and avoids burnout.

A Beginners Guide to Antlers Arrays and Loops

2022-11-01T00:00:00+00:00

This in-depth guide provides a beginner-friendly introduction to Antlers arrays and loops. In it, we look at the basics of Antlers arrays, techniques for working with named scopes and nested arrays, and methods for randomly inserting supplementary content into blog post listings.

Antlers and Blade Formatters: Behind the Scenes

2022-07-18T00:00:00+00:00

This article provides a very brief overview of how both the Antlers and Blade formatters work. Both formatters are offered as a Prettier plugin.

Creating Dynamic CSS Class Names with Statamic

2022-05-29T00:00:00+00:00

Learn to construct dynamic CSS class names using Antlers sections when creating Statamic sites.

Working With Dynamic Variables in Antlers Runtime

2022-05-04T00:00:00+00:00

Antlers Runtime supports the concept of dynamic variables, which can be used to retrieve data dynamically, without knowing the variable name ahead of time.

Managing Imported Fieldset Handles with Antlers Runtime

2022-04-22T00:00:00+00:00

Antlers Runtime makes it easier to work with prefixed fieldsets when reusable fieldsets and partials.

Antlers Conditional Parameters Using void Parameters

2022-04-18T00:00:00+00:00

In this article we will look at a way to conditionally add or remove tag parameters without requiring duplicate code, or large if statements.

Creating a Content Reaction System with Statamic 3 and Antlers

2021-12-12T00:00:00+00:00

This article covers a variety of intermediate-to-advanced Antlers topics by implementing a visitor reactions system using Statamic 3 and Antlers

Creating a Stacked Content Layout with Statamic 3 and Antlers

2021-12-05T00:00:00+00:00

This article covers creating a stacked content layout with Statamic and Antler by utilizing array access features.

Creating a Statamic Compact Modifier

2021-11-07T00:00:00+00:00

Throughout this guide we will explore Statamic modifiers by creating a modifier that will allow us to iterate multiple Antlers variables.

Using Modifiers in Antlers Dynamic Bindings

2021-11-07T00:00:00+00:00

Utilizing modifiers within Antlers dynamic bindings can be a powerful way to simply templates.

Creating a Custom Statamic 500 Server Error Page: Part Two

2021-09-12T00:00:00+00:00

Creating a dynamic Statamic 500 Server Error page is a relatively simple process, as well as developing a custom Antlers tag to help test it.

Enabling Database Users in Statamic 3

2021-02-20T00:00:00+00:00

In this article we look at solving two errors ("password_activations" or "password_resets" database tables not existing) that can appear once a Statamic 3 site has been configured to store users in a database.

Integrating Laravel Spark, Stripe, and Statamic 3

2021-02-20T00:00:00+00:00

In this article we will start with a fresh Statamic 3 website based on the Cool Writings Starter Kit, integrate Laravel Stripe, and develop customer Antlers tags that can be used to selectively restrict access to premium content.

Implementing a Customer Domain Specific Language Parser in PHP

2021-02-15T00:00:00+00:00

Implementing a custom domain specific language parser in PHP, from scratch. Our language parser will parse a custom query filter language.

Implementing C# Events

2021-01-07T00:00:00+00:00

C#'s event features are an elegant wrapper around the delegate type, making it incredibly simple to create custom events, and consume existing events.

Creating a Custom Statamic 500 Server Error Page

2020-12-29T00:00:00+00:00

Customizing a Statamic site's 500 Server Error page is a relatively simple process, as well as developing a custom Antlers tag to help test it.

Laravel 5 Collections: Adding an Element to the Beginning of a Collection With prepend

2018-04-22T00:00:00+00:00

The prepend method in Laravel's Collection class allows you to add a given value to the beginning of the collection. It also accepts an optional key parameter for adding items to the beginning of an associative array. The method returns a reference to the original collection instance. In the provided code examples, a new item is added to the beginning of the collection using prepend, and the resulting collection is printed. In another example, an item is added to the beginning of an associative array with a specified key using prepend, and the resulting collection is printed.

Laravel 5 Collections: Adding an Element to the End of a Collection With push

2018-04-22T00:00:00+00:00

The push method in Laravel is used to add an item to the end of a collection. It returns a reference to the original collection instance. However, it cannot be used to set the key of the item being added. To use the push method, you create a new collection instance, and then call the push method on it, passing the item you want to add as a parameter. After the push method is executed, the collection will be modified with the new item added at the end.

Laravel 5 Collections: Adding New Elements to a Collection With put

2018-04-22T00:00:00+00:00

The put method in the Laravel Collection class allows you to add a new item to the collection with a specified key and value. This method modifies the original Collection instance and returns a reference to it. With an example use case, you can see how the put method works in practice, by adding a new item to the collection. After executing the code, the collection would contain the added item alongside existing ones.

Laravel 5 Collections: Adding Values to a Collection With union

2018-04-22T00:00:00+00:00

Learn how to use the union method in Laravel collections. This method adds the provided items to a copy of the existing collection, without modifying the original collection. If there are key collisions, the elements from the original collection will be used. Check out an example use case and see how union works.

Laravel 5 Collections: Breaking a Collection Into a Specified Number of Groups With split

2018-04-22T00:00:00+00:00

The split method in Laravel is used to break a collection into a smaller number of collections. With the split method, you can specify the number of groups you want the collection split into. If there are no items in the collection, it will return a new, empty collection instance. In the example provided, a collection is split into two groups, each containing elements from the original collection.

Laravel 5 Collections: Calculating the Average Value of a Collection With average

2018-04-22T00:00:00+00:00

The average method in PHP is an alias of the avg method. It calculates the average value of a collection and can be used in the same way. For example, you can use it to find the average of a array of numbers. Additionally, the average method can also be used with higher order messaging, which allows you to easily calculate the average price of a collection of objects using PHP's property accessors syntax.

Laravel 5 Collections: Calculating the Average Value of a Collection With avg

2018-04-22T00:00:00+00:00

The avg method in Laravel allows you to calculate the average value of items in a collection. It can be used with both arrays and objects. You can also specify a key to average nested properties. Additionally, you can use higher order messaging to easily calculate the average of a specific property in a collection of objects.

Laravel 5 Collections: Calculating the Median Value of a Collection With median

2018-04-22T00:00:00+00:00

The median method in PHP can be used to calculate the median value of a collection of data. It allows you to find the value that separates the higher and lower halves of the data. You can also specify a key to limit the calculation to nested property values. In the provided example, the median method is used to find the median value of both a collection of numbers and a collection of test scores.

Laravel 5 Collections: Calculating the Minimum Value of a Collection With min

2018-04-22T00:00:00+00:00

The min method in Laravel is the opposite of the max method and accepts the same number of arguments. It can be used to retrieve the minimum value of a given key. If no key is specified, it will function similarly to PHP's min function. In the code examples provided, it shows how to use the min method both with and without specifying a key.

Laravel 5 Collections: Calculating the Sum of a Collection With sum

2018-04-22T00:00:00+00:00

The sum method in Laravel's Collection class returns the sum of all items in the collection. It can also accept a callback function to specify which values should be added together. If the collection is empty, the method will return 0. In the first example, the code shows a simple usage of the sum method to calculate the sum of numbers in the collection. In the second example, the code demonstrates how to use the sum method to calculate the total number of speakers at a conference. The third example shows how the sum method can be used with a higher order message to calculate the sum of speakers at multiple conferences.

Laravel 5 Collections: Checking If a Collection Contains Items With isEmpty

2018-04-22T00:00:00+00:00

The isEmpty method in Laravel's Collection class can be used to determine if a collection contains any items. If the collection is empty, true is returned; otherwise, false is returned. You can use this method to check if a collection has items before performing any operations on it.

Laravel 5 Collections: Checking If a Collection Contains Items With isNotEmpty

2018-04-22T00:00:00+00:00

The isNotEmpty method is used to determine whether a collection is not empty. This method returns a boolean value indicating whether the collection has any items or not. You can use this method to easily check if a collection contains any elements.

Laravel 5 Collections: Combining Collection Elements Into a String With implode

2018-04-22T00:00:00+00:00

The implode method in Laravel combines the items of a collection together, with the option to specify a "glue" between each item. Unlike PHP's implode function, Laravel's Collection allows for operating on arrays of primitive data types as well as arrays of objects and arrays. The returned value is a string with the specified glue between each item. Examples demonstrate how to use implode with both simple arrays and collections containing arrays or objects.