Laravel Observers

Introduction

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• Only available for laradumps/laradumps

composer require laradumps/laradumps --dev -W

Logs

The Desktop App will receive and dump Laravel Logs entries whenever you enable the Log feature.

use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Log;

Log::info('Your message', ['0' => 'Your Context']);

Log::error('Your message', ['0' => 'Your Context']);

INFO

To Listen globally:

• In Desktop App, choose your project and toggle: LOGS, or set observers.logs : true in laradumps.yaml

Laravel 11 Log Context was supported

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Queries

To debug SQL queries, you must place the database call within the queriesOn() and queriesOff() methods.

For example:

use App\Models\User;

ds()->queriesOn('checking a user query');

User::query()->where('id', 20)->get();

ds()->queriesOff();

INFO

To Listen globally:

• In Desktop App, choose your project and toggle: QUERIES, or set observers.queries : true in laradumps.yaml

Query Macro

• Only available for laradumps/laradumps

You can also chain a ds() method before the query execution and, it will be dumped in the Desktop App:

use App\Models\User;

User::query()->where('id', 20)
    ->ds()
    ->get();

WARNING

The macro feature doesn't require SQL Queries to be enabled in the configuration file.

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Mailable

Displays mail details and the HTML preview for an instance of a Illuminate\Mail\Mailable class.

ds()->mailable(new \App\Mail\TestMail());

INFO

To Listen globally:

• In Desktop App, choose your project and toggle: MAIL, or set observers.mail : true in laradumps.yaml

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HTTP Requests

Captures and displays all the properties of HTTP Requests within the httpOn() and httpOff() methods.

use \Illuminate\Support\Facades\Http;

ds()->httpOn();
    Http::get('https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/todos/1');
ds()->httpOff();

INFO

To Listen globally:

• In Desktop App, choose your project and toggle: HTTP, or set observers.http : true in laradumps.yaml

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Artisan Command

Captures and displays the called Artisan commands with their arguments, options and exit code.

use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Artisan;

ds()->commandsOn('running a command');
    Artisan::call('inspire');
ds()->commandsOff();

INFO

To Listen globally:

• In Desktop App, choose your project and toggle: COMMANDS, or set observers.commands : true in laradumps.yaml

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Jobs

Captures and displays all information of Jobs ran within the jobsOn() and jobsOff() methods.

ds()->jobsOn('Optional-Label');
    dispatch(new \App\Jobs\TestJob());
ds()->jobsOff();

INFO

To Listen globally:

• In Desktop App, choose your project and toggle: JOBS, or set observers.jobs : true in laradumps.yaml

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Cache

Captures and displays Cache information loaded within the cacheOn() and cacheOff() methods.

ds()->cacheOn('My cache');

    // SET
    cache()->set('feature', 'Cache Observer');

    cache()->remember('name', 10, function() {
        return 'Anand Pilania';
    });

    // HIT
    cache()->get('name');

    // FORGET
    cache()->forget('feature');

    // MISSED
    cache()->get('feature');

ds()->cacheOff();

INFO

To Listen globally:

• In Desktop App, choose your project and toggle: CACHE, or set observers.cache : true in laradumps.yaml

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Stringable Macro

Displays the current string in a Stringable Macro

use Illuminate\Support\Str;

Str::of('Hello')
    ->append(' World')
    ->ds();

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Collection Macro

Displays the current state of a Collection Macro

collect(['hello', 'world'])
    ->ds('original input')
    ->map(fn($string) => ucfirst($string))
    ->ds('capitalize result');

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Routes

You can use the routes() method to list all Routes in a table format.

You may configure LaraDumps to exclude specific routes from the dump output.

ds()->routes();