mysqldump -u[user] -p[pass] [db] > [file_path]

But what if you want to automate the process? Listing down the steps one by one:

1. Setup cron entry to your server

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

2. Create a command BackupDatabase by running the following code:

   php artisan make:command BackupDatabase

3. Navigate to app/Console/Commands/BackupDatabase.php and replace the code the following:

   <?php
   
   namespace App\Console\Commands;
   
   use Illuminate\Console\Command;
   use Symfony\Component\Process\Process;
   use Symfony\Component\Process\Exception\ProcessFailedException;
   
   class BackupDatabase extends Command
   {
       protected $signature = 'db:backup';
   
       protected $description = 'Backup the database';
   
       protected $process;
   
       public function __construct()
       {
           parent::__construct();
   
           $this->process = new Process(sprintf(
               'mysqldump -u%s -p%s %s > %s',
               config('database.connections.mysql.username'),
               config('database.connections.mysql.password'),
               config('database.connections.mysql.database'),
               storage_path('app/backups/backup-' . time() . '.sql')
           ));
       }
   
       public function handle()
       {
           try {
               $this->process->mustRun();
   
               $this->info('The backup has been proceed successfully.');
           } catch (ProcessFailedException $exception) {
               $this->error('The backup process has been failed.');
           }
       }
   }

4. Schedule the backup task, navigate to app/Console/Kernel.php and append the following line of code inside schedule method to run database backups every Saturday at 11PM. You can set the frequency as per your requirements

   $schedule->command('db:backup')->saturdays()->at('23:00');

5. Create backups directory inside storage/app directory and place a .gitignore file inside backups directory with the following code

   *
   !.gitignore

That’s it you’ve now enabled weekly automated database backups
For more information and credits: https://pineco.de/scheduling-mysql-backups-with-laravel/

HTTPS_PROXY={http/https://}PROXY_USER:PROXY_PWD@PROXY:PROXY_PORT
(Combination of Proxy Address:Proxy Password@Proxy Address with port, don’t include http/https)

PROXY=xxxxxx (Proxy Name)
PROXY_PORT=xxxx (Proxy Port)
PROXY_USER=xxxxxxxxx (Proxy User Name)
PROXY_PWD=xxxxxxxxx (Proxy User Password)
PROXY_TYPE=CURLPROXY_HTTP
SSL_VERIFYPEER=true (true if SSL, else false)

Include actual values in HTTPS_Proxy

1. Cut all the files and folders in public directory and paste it to root folder
2. Update the index.php as below:

   <?php
   
   /**
    * Laravel - A PHP Framework For Web Artisans
    *
    * @package  Laravel
    * @author   Taylor Otwell <taylorotwell@gmail.com>
    */
   
   /*
   |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
   | Register The Auto Loader
   |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
   |
   | Composer provides a convenient, automatically generated class loader for
   | our application. We just need to utilize it! We'll simply require it
   | into the script here so that we don't have to worry about manual
   | loading any of our classes later on. It feels nice to relax.
   |
   */
   
   require __DIR__.'/bootstrap/autoload.php';
   
   /*
   |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
   | Turn On The Lights
   |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
   |
   | We need to illuminate PHP development, so let us turn on the lights.
   | This bootstraps the framework and gets it ready for use, then it
   | will load up this application so that we can run it and send
   | the responses back to the browser and delight our users.
   |
   */
   
   $app = require_once __DIR__.'/bootstrap/app.php';
   
   // set the public path to this directory
   $app->bind('path.public', function() {
   	return __DIR__;
   });
   
   /*
   |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
   | Run The Application
   |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
   |
   | Once we have the application, we can handle the incoming request
   | through the kernel, and send the associated response back to
   | the client's browser allowing them to enjoy the creative
   | and wonderful application we have prepared for them.
   |
   */
   
   $kernel = $app->make(Illuminate\Contracts\Http\Kernel::class);
   
   $response = $kernel->handle(
   	$request = Illuminate\Http\Request::capture()
   );
   
   $response->send();
   
   $kernel->terminate($request, $response);

3. Update the elixir parameters in gulpfile.js:

   elixir.config.publicDir = '';
   elixir.config.publicPath = '';
   
   elixir(function(mix) {
   	mix.sass('app.scss');
   });

P.S.: Always use ‘url()’ function for every assets like images, css, js
You can also use, url(elixir(‘css/all.css’))

1. Download “jbimages” plugin from http://justboil.me/
2. Unzip it into TinyMCE’s plugins folder
3. Edit config.php file found in plugins/jbimages
4. Set $config[‘img_path’] as per your requirement. Eg: ‘images/blog’
5. Activate jbplugins in script by following code. Don’t forget to set relative_urls: false

   <script type="text/javascript">
   
   tinymce.init({
     selector: "textarea",
   
     // ===========================================
     // INCLUDE THE PLUGIN
     // ===========================================
   
     plugins: [
       "advlist autolink lists link image charmap print preview anchor",
       "searchreplace visualblocks code fullscreen",
       "insertdatetime media table contextmenu paste jbimages"
     ],
   
     // ===========================================
     // PUT PLUGIN'S BUTTON on the toolbar
     // ===========================================
   
     toolbar: "insertfile undo redo | styleselect | bold italic | alignleft aligncenter alignright alignjustify | bullist numlist outdent indent | link image jbimages",
   
     // ===========================================
     // SET RELATIVE_URLS to FALSE (This is required for images to display properly)
     // ===========================================
   
     relative_urls: false
   
   });
   
   </script>

   Just include “jbimages” in plugin and toolbar method to activate.

P.S.: Please keep the image upload path as writable.

Steps to follow for creating Queue Listener:

1. Install Supervisor

   Supervisor will automatically restart the queue if fails or stop working. To install Supervisor on Linux based system, use below command:

   sudo apt-get install supervisor

    

2. Create ‘/etc/supervisor/conf.d/laravel-worker.conf‘ and paste the below code into it

   [program:laravel-worker]
   user=user_name
   process_name=%(program_name)s_%(process_num)02d
   command=php application_path/artisan queue:listen --sleep=3 --tries=3
   directory=application_path
   autostart=true
   autorestart=true
   numprocs=10
   redirect_stderr=true
   stdout_logfile=application_path/storage/logs/worker.log

   where,
   user_name: Your machine user
   application_path: Full path to your application

3. Start the processes using following commands

   sudo supervisorctl reread
   sudo supervisorctl update
   sudo supervisorctl start laravel-worker:*

Now your queue listener is ready, let’s configure Laravel by following steps:

Step 1:
Set QUEUE_DRIVER=database in ‘.env‘ file

Step 2:
Navigate to ‘queue.php‘ file and check whether the table name and other settings for queue are present in database section

Step 3:
Run this command to migrate queue table in database

php artisan queue:table
php artisan queue:failed-table
php artisan migrate

You are ready for sending email through queue. Just replace Mail::send with Mail::queue or Mail::later

Final Steps:
Start and stop the following processes one by one to make Supervisor listen everytime (perform only if Supervisor doesn’t start listening automatically)

php artisan queue:listen
php artisan queue:work --daemon

*Note:

1. Add ‘APP_URL‘ in .env file as per the accessible domain for application. If you’re using ‘url()‘ function in email which is queued, not adding ‘APP_URL‘ will generate a localhost URL.

2. While passing data to views when using Mail::queue or Mail::later the data isn’t accessible as expected. This happens when you’re passing an object or eloquent object and not as arrays. To make this work with queue you have to serialize the $eloquentObject first and later unserialize it in the view.

Mail::queue('emails.hello', serialize($data), function($message) {
...
});

Add this on top of view file:

{{-- */unserialize($data);/* --}}

1. GET

   $request = Request::create(url, 'GET');
   $response = Route::dispatch($request);
   return $response;

2. POST (with parameters)

   $params = array(
       'product_code' => 'GYU16R',
       'qty' => '1',
       'price' => 660,
   );
   
   $request = Request::create(url, 'POST', $params);
   $response = app()->handle($request);
   return $response;

Note:
Always use full absolute path as url while creating request.
Eg: Use http://localhost/edit-user instead of /edit-user