Christoph Rumpel Blog Feed

Caching is lovely, and the Content Security Policy is incredible.

As more and more services get digital these days, security has become a significant aspect of every application.

This is part two of building a newsletter chatbot in PHP.

Email has been a great channel for staying in touch with your audience for years.

I am right now writing my first book called "Build Chatbots with PHP".

The WebDriver is one of the best features about the BotMan library.

Yesterday Taylor Otwell released Laravel 5.6 right before the Laracon Online conference.

Today the Build A Chatbot video course by Marcel Pociot was released.

Since Laravel v5.5.29 you can group collections by multiple levels.

One of my resolutions for 2017 was to redesign my blog.

I am a visual person.

While lots of people already know about what a chatbot is, many still have problems to think of use-cases for it.

While setting up BotMan with Facebook Messenger I see a lot of people have problems to configure the needed webhook.

With BotMan it is really easy to setup a Slack chatbot.

With BotMan it is easy to set up a Telegram chatbot.

With BotMan it is easy to set up a Facebook chatbot.

Working with Facebook Messenger bots is great, but there is one thing still missing: group bots!

BotMan is a framework agnostic PHP library for building chatbots.

BotMan is a framework agnostic PHP library for building chatbots.

With Laravel 5.4 there will be also a new testing tool available called Dusk.

There is a new PHP library called BotMan that makes it super easy to setup a Facebook Messenger chatbot in Laravel.

Before the year 2016 is finally over, I want to take some time to look back.

Refactoring to Collections is a great book by Adam Wathan where he demonstrates, how you can avoid loops by using collections.

Laravel 3 is out and it is using Vue.js version 2.

Laravel 5.3 is out!

The chatbot topic is huge right now.

Laravel Spark is out and it is really exciting to work with.

Laravel Spark is out and it is really exciting to work with.

Have you ever seen PHP frameworks or projects use the ::class keyword and wondered what it does and where it comes from?

Turning on LEDs is nice, but maybe you have bigger dreams.

At the beginning of this year I fell in love with a tiny one-chip computer called Raspberry Pi.

Today is a big day!

So this is the last day of 2015.

Everybody tells you to read blog articles to keep yourself up to date and to become a better developer.

Since the Laravel 5.1.11 release it is providing some great new authorization features.

Git is huge!

Have you ever forgotten to merge a branch and deleted it?

In this short tutorial I will show you how to write your first Laravel application test in like no time.

When you contribute to an Open Source project through a pull request, the maintainer often wants you to clean up your commits.

So there is this thing called Laravel.

It is easy to become a web developer these days.

Working with virtual machines like Homestead (which is a Vagrant machine) is perfect.

You have probably heard that Laravel has changed the way you can submit bug reports.

Queries in Laravel are damn easy.