The Cloudways blog has posted a new tutorial for the Laravel users out there showing you how to create a "live search" box for the contents of your site. They use an e-commerce example and make use of some simple Javascript to return results from a backend script.

Whether you have a blog or an ecommerce store, a search bar is always an essential component of the UI. However, the days of simple search bar is over. These days, a live search bar is much more efficient than a simple search bar because it displays similar content in real time. This increases the chance of landing a sale because the customer could see the largest selection of related products.

The article starts off with the prerequisites for following along including an installation of PHP, MySQL, Apache and Laravel. They include an optional step of setting it all up on a Cloudways server but this isn't required if you want to do it locally. The tutorial then walks through the setup steps and creating the migration for the "products" table it will search. It also shows the creation of the controller and routes for the search endpoints and the view with the Javascript to make the Ajax request. It finishes with a way to test the result and a screenshot of what should be returned.

The Sound of Symfony podcast, with hosts Magnus Nordlander and Tobias Nyholm, has released their latest episode today - Episode #15: Live from Barcelona.

In another of our conference specials, Tobias, Magnus and Ryan is live from Symfony Catalunya 2016 in Barcelona. We talk about the conference, and, trying make the most of being around some of the experts in the community, we talk to Marc Morera and Michael Cullum about building local PHP communities.

You can listen to this latest episode either using the in-page audio player or by downloading the audio file directly. If you enjoy the show be sure to also follow them on Twitter and subscribe to their feed for more information on when the latest episodes are released.

Today is Day 2 for this year's Laracon US conference and the Laravel News site has posted their livestream of the event. Yesterday's sessions and announcements were chronicled in the Day 1 post if you'd like to catch up.

Welcome to day two of the Laracon Conference. This is the live blog for today’s talks.

The sessions have already started, so there's already updates (just in case you're not already watching the live stream). You can check out the sessions coming up today over on the main conference schedule.

For those that can't make it to this year's Laracon US event, the Laravel News site has started up a live stream for each of the days you can use to catch the latest from each session and announcement made at the conference. Today is the first day of the conference, so the Day 1 stream is already up and going strong.

Welcome to day one of Laracon US. Today features three workshop talks and we will be live blogging each one here.

There's no need to reload as the stream is a live update so keep it up and keep track of all of the Laracon-related happenings through out the day. For more information about the sessions being presented each day, check out the full schedule on the main conference website.

On the Laravel News site there's an announcement about a live stream available for Laracon US happening at the end of July (2016) - the 27th through the 29th.

For the first time ever, Laracon US is offering a live stream plus early access videos.

When you purchase access on the day of the conference you will get an email link to access the stream and be able to watch all the talks except for the one by Ryan Singer.

You can pick up your ticket for just $25 USD and get access to both the stream and early access videos. You can find out more about the conference itself and the talks that are scheduled on the main conference website.

That Podcast, hosted by PHP community members Beau Simensen and Dave Marshall, has posted their latest episode. In Episode #23 they're in Manchester for the PHP North West 2015 conference along with several other members of the community around for the recording.

Beau and Dave get together again, this time at PHPNW 2015. We talk about testing, Laravel's awesome container, chatops and security and react, before touching on docker and otto. A big thanks to all who came to talk with us and sorry to listeners for all the clicks, pops, whistles and background noise!

Topics mentioned include speaking.io, the Full Stack Radio podcast, paircasts.com, the Facebook React devtools and several fellow PHP community members including Adam Wathan, Chris Hartjes and Ed Finkler. You can listen to this latest show either through the in-page audio player or by downloading the mp3. If you enjoy the episode, be sure to subscribe to their feed and follow them on Twitter to get the latest as future episodes are released.

The PHP Rountable podcast has posted their latest episode recorded live and looking at HHVM - Episode #31: Checking in with PHP & HHVM internals. In this episode host Sammy K Powers is joined by Julien Pauli, Sara Golemon, Bob Weinand and Nikita Popov.

We chatting with some PHP & HHVM internals folks to learn what's been going on in the world of internals.

You can watch this latest episode either through the in-page video player or directly over on YouTube. If you enjoy the show, be sure to subscribe to their feed for information about their latest episodes as they're released. They're recorded live too, so be sure to also follow them on Twitter to find out where and when the next one will be recorded.

The PHP Town Hall podcast has posted their most recent episode, Episode #44, where they were live from the Pacific Northwest PHP Conference that happened back in September (2015).

Live from [PNWPHP ‘15](http://pnwphp.com/), Ben and Phil are joined by guests [Ben Marks](https://twitter.com/benmarks), [Yitzchok Willroth](https://twitter.com/coderabbi) and later we are joined by returning guest [Sara Golemon](https://twitter.com/SaraMG) who popped in to talk about HHVM/Hack while Phil played waiter for the rest of the episode.

Ben talks about Magento and some of his conference traveling madness, as does Yitz, who got trapped in a hotel for a whole weekend due to some interesting combination of Jewish holidays and an argument over the interational date line in New Zealand. Phil also tells us all about his NZ speeding ticket, mowing down possums like it’s Carmageddon, and makes a few terrible jokes because he’s scarily sober.

You can listen to this latest episode either through watching it on the in-page video player, using the in-page audio player or just downloading the mp3 of the show. If you enjoy it, be sure to subscribe to their feed and follow them on Twitter to get updates on when new episodes are released.

The Knp University site has a posted an article where they've shared their favorite PHPStorm Live templates, a set of handy shortcuts that can make for less typing on your part and, as a result, less development time spent on common keystrokes.

Most editors have a feature like this, and if you’re not leveraging them, you’re slowing yourself down. Seriously: taking a few minutes to get into these now could add up to a lot of hours saved in the future. The vim users at KnpLabs love this kind of stuff, and have published their own snippets (docteurklein, PedroTroller, Einenlum).

In our tutorial about live templates, we turn formhandle into a snippet that types about 10 lines of form-handling boilerplate code from 10 characters of text. So I started wondering: what are some other awesome live templates we should all be using?

To this end, they've created a repository to store some of these helpful shortcuts. Their list so far includes shortcuts for a 404 if statement, several Twig tags, several for use in a controller context and YAML formatting. The repository includes instructions on how to install the shortcuts and how to include only the ones you want.

The Sound of Symfony podcast has released their latest episode today: Episode #6, The SymfonyCon Special. This episode was recorded at SymfonyCon Madrid 2014 that happened in Spain at the end of November.

In this episode we're all about SymfonyCon. So much so that we in fact recorded this episode at the SymfonyCon Hack day. As usual, we go over the news and community update, but the rest of the episode is focused on discussing the conference with our guests.

Among the topics discussed are things like:

• 100 new features in Symfony 2.6
• the Symfony Marketplace
• decisions on the PHP 7 Timeline

You can listen to this latest episode either through the in-page audio player or by downloading the mp3. If you enjoy it, you can subscribe to their feed too.