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Nested resources in Backpack CRUD

Sometimes you'll have one resource that depends on another one. For example, you might have: a Post model; a User model; The admins could see all posts, of course. But if you might want to see only one user's posts. Sometimes, y...

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Cristian Tabacitu

How to Add Impersonate Functionality to Your Backpack v4 Admin Panel

Sometimes it's useful for the admin to see everything from the user's perspective. To see exactly what he sees. With an admin panel like Backpack, it's not too difficult to add this functionality. Assumptions: you're using Permis...

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Cristian Tabacitu

How to Submit a Non-trivial PR to a Laravel Package

If you want to contribute to a Laravel package with a PR, sometimes the Github interface is enough. You change one or two files there a...

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Cristian Tabacitu

How To Automatically Apply the Laravel-PHP Coding Style (For Free)

If you work inside a team, do yourself a favor - decide on a coding style and get the entire team to use it. Why Stick To a Standard Co...

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Cristian Tabacitu

How to create a Print operation

Give your admin the power to print a custom view. No new window, no page jump - just print using AJAX. I've been practicing Backpack fo...

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Karan Datwani

New Addon - Editable Columns

Some of our admins have been asking to do quick edits, right from the table view. We've always whipped up a custom solution for them ri...

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Cristian Tabacitu