When you wanted to customize your error pages—for example, showing a particular cat GIF when your users hit a 404—you’d Google it and follow these instructions by Dries Vints. In Laravel 5 things have changed a bit. TL;DR take me to the solution already Trace it through the code Now, all custom error and exception handling has moved to app/Exceptions/Handler.php. You’ll remember that that’s where

It's seldom that we need to extend Laravel's core, and even when we do, it's most likely we're going to extend specific components, which is detailed in the docs. However, all of these instructions presume you're using the core Laravel Application (IOC Container) to extend the other classes. What if you want to extend the Application itself? This Is Actually A Real Example This has come up recentl

Laravel 5.0 Laravel 5.0 is coming out in November, and there are a lot of features that have folks excited. The New Directory structure is, in my mind, a lot more in line with how most developers work; Flysystem integration will make working with files endlessly more flexible and powerful; Contracts is a great step towards making Laravel-friendly packages that aren’t Laravel-dependent; and Sociali