The Laravel News site has posted an announcement about the latest in their series of Laracon events: Laracon Online 2019.

Laracon Online 2019 is coming to a couch near you on March 6th, 2019! Back and better than ever in this 2019 edition, you will hear from the likes of Laravel creator Taylor Otwell, Tighten Partner and Laracon US speaker Matt Stauffer, Refactoring UI tag-team Adam Wathan and Steve Schoger, Laracon US speakers Freek Van Der Herten and Samantha Geitz, and Laracon 2018 EU speaker Marcel Pociot.

Just like last year, the event is hosted entirely online and the event is super affordable for the early bird price of $12. No hotels, no airfare, just signup and spend the day watching some of the best speakers right from your computer.

And there's good news for those out there wanting to attend the event - they're giving away 355 tickets for free based on the generous donations from several sponsors. Naturally, if you can afford the $12 (that's like 2 cups of fancy coffee!) then don't enter the drawing. They want as many people as possible to enjoy the event. If you're interested in the kind of content presented at these events, check out last year's talks or just head over and get your ticket now.

On the Cloudways blog there's a new post sharing some of the things you can expect from the Laracon Online conference happening February 7th. As its name implies, Laracon Online is a one-day, single track conference happening completely online.

The entire Laravel community is pretty excited about the upcoming Laravel Event of the Year – Laracon Online 2018. The webinar will be streamed online on 7th Feb 2018. It is expected that the entire who’s who of the Laravel community will attend the event.

Laracon Online is perhaps the most important event where more than eight renowned speakers and over 6000+ attendees from around the globe. The conference addresses multiple areas of interest but the focus remains on in-depth technical talks given by Laravel experts.

The article spends some time giving a little background about the conference and the Slack instance that will be used for attendee communication. Speakers at this year's event include well-known names in the Laravel community like Matt Stauffer, Adam Wathan and Taylor Otwell. The article also includes several tweets from both speakers and the Laravel community, excited about the upcoming event. If you're interested in attending you can find out more about the conference and pick up a ticket from the main Laracon Online conference website.

On the Laravel News site they've posted a reminder about the Early Bird registration deadline for the 2018 edition of the Laracon Online conference.

As the year comes to a close, remember that for the next 23 days, you can still buy tickets to Laracon Online 2018 for $12 (regularly $25). Tickets will go up to $25 on January 3rd, which is still a great deal for the all-star speaker lineup planned. Grab tickets today before the busy rush of the holiday and new year.

Tickets are only $12 USD at the Early Bird pricing and the conference will be happening February 7th, 2018 beginning at 10am. Speakers include several of the Laravel regulars like Adam Wathan, Chris Fado, Matt Stauffer and, of course, Taylor Otwell. You can find out more information about the conference and pick up tickets of your own at the Early Bird price (while it lasts) on the Laracon Online website.

On the Laravel News site they've posted the official announcement of the return of the popular online Laravel conference: Laravel Online 2018.

Coming back for 2018 is the one-day Laracon Online conference that will be held on February 7, 2018. Just like last year, the event will be hosted entirely online and no matter where you live you can now take part in a Laracon. No hotels, no airfare, just signup and spend the day watching some of the best speakers right from your computer.

Speakers at this year's event include Taylor Otwell, Matt Stauffer, Adam Wathan, Chris Fidao and many more. The event will run from 9:45am - 6:45pm EST and will include a Slack "backchannel" for the attendees to chat about sessions or ask questions about the topics covered. You can register now for the event and pick up an Early Bird ticket for just $12 USD ($25 after Early Bird).

The SitePoint PHP blog has a new tutorial posted by editor Bruno Skvorc showing you how to set up an online multi-language magazine with the help of the Sulu CMS. This article is a follow up to their previous "Getting Started" tutorial helping you get Sulu up and running.

We previously demonstrated the proper way to get started with Sulu CMS by setting up a Hello World installation on a Vagrant machine. Simple stuff, but can be tricky.

[...] This time we’ll look into basic Sulu terminology, explain how content is formed, created, stored, and cached, and look into building a simple online magazine with different locales (languages).

The tutorial then covers pages and page templates including what the Twig markup looks like, how to work with them in the UI and the end result of their sample "Hello world" page. There's a brief section about caching before he moves into the main part of the tutorial: the creation of the magazine. He covers the use of Jackalope, ElasticSearch and the ArticleBundle and how to get them up, running and playing nicely together. The article wraps up with a look at locales and how they work in the Sulu setup.

The SitePoint PHP blog has recently posted a tutorial from author Lukas White showing how to create an online reservation system for cooking classes using Lumen and the Acuity Scheduling service.

I recently wrote an article about building an online system to book lessons with a driving instructor. [...] Cookery classes usually have a very well-defined limit on the number of students — you can only really teach as many people as you have cooking stations or cookers. That’s going to be the theme of this article — managing those “slots” in a cookery class. The principles remain the same for all sorts of other forms of tuition.

As before, we’re going to take advantage of Acuity Scheduling in order to manage bookings for our classes, and everything that entails.

First he walks you through exactly what he'll guide you through building and a real world scenario where it might be used. Next he shows how to set up an account on Acuity, create appointment types and get the credentials for the API integration. From there he gets into the implementation:

• Creating a new Lumen project
• installing the PHP SDK from Acuity
• Getting a list of available class times and showing the list in a view
• Setting up the booking form and handling the submit

This last step includes reaching out to the Acuity API and submitting the information for the appointment. It's not tracked on the application's side opting to use the Acuity service as a source of record.

The Laravel News site has posted a recap of the Laravel Online conference that happened back on March 8th (2017).

The first Laracon Online conference just wrapped up and based on feedback many loved the event. I want to personally thank the Laravel community for helping make this a reality.

[...] We had developers from all over the world hanging out in Slack, watching the live stream, and socializing. It got a little crazy at times but everyone behaved, and it was fun watching the room scroll so fast that even the world champion speed reader would have trouble keeping up.

The post includes feedback from the attendees of the conference, a brief summary of each of the talks presented and a list of sponsors and other resources to get more detail on the event.

On the Tighten blog there's an interview posted with some of the speakers from the recent Laracon Online conference that included Jeffrey Way, Evan You, Jason McCreary and Taylor Otwell.

Wednesday was the inaugural Laracon Online, an online conference devoted to bringing great Laravel teaching to folks who may not be able to attend an in-person conference. Tighten co-founder Matt Stauffer spoke on Laravel's service container, along with Taylor Otwell, creator of Laravel; Jeffrey Way, creator of Laracasts; Adam Wathan, Tighten alum; and several more excellent speakers.

During the session, conference attendees asked questions for the speakers to answer after their talks were over. However, the Slack channel was a fast-paced mix of conversations and Q&A, so we wanted to aggregate the Q&A sessions that did happen together in a single place.

The interview consolidates the questions asked of each of the eight speakers including in some cases links to the resources mentioned.

The Laravel News site has posted a new announcement today with a reminder that today (Feb 22nd) is the last day to get Laracon Online Early Bird tickets for just $10 USD. After this they'll go up to their normal price.

Today is the last chance for you to join over 3,000 developers and get an early bird ticket to Laracon Online for just $10. Each ticket purchase includes access to the live event video, conference swag, and a special Slack channel for hanging out and mingling during the event. With your ticket, you can sit on your couch and watch it all live!

Laracon Online will be held on March 8th, 2017 with opening remarks at 8:45 AM EST. If you can’t attend that day, all the talks will be recorded and available online for viewing at your convenience shortly after the conference ends.

The post also lists out some of the "conference swag" that will be provided to attendees including a discount on Linode services, a Blackfire.io discount and others that require a bit of action on your part but offer large discounts as a result. You can find out more about the event on the main conference website.

The Laravel News site has a new announcement posted about a new online-only conference for the Laravel (and general PHP) community: Laracon Online.

Laracon Online is a brand new one-day conference that will be held entirely online. This means no matter where you live you can now take part in Laracon. No hotels, no airfare, just signup and spend the day watching some of the best speakers right from your computer.

The speaker list includes Taylor Otwell, Jeffrey Way, Matt Stauffer, Adam Wathan, Evan You, Rachel Andrew, Nick Canzoneri, and Jason McCreary. Covering everything from new Laravel features to Vue.js, CSS, and more.

The event is happening on March 8th starting at 9am EST and will run all day until around 6pm EST. The schedule hasn't been posted yet (other than the session times) but Early Bird registration is open and tickets are available for only $10 USD. If you can't attend, all sessions will be recorded and will be available post-conference. For more information, check out the conference website.