Day 4: Building a SaaS with Laravel

Before playing with Filament, I want to do some stuff

Task 1: Improve the mail template for the verification email

For that I used a free email template from mailmeteor;

and adapt where it needed in my blade view

<a href="{{$signedUrl}}" target="_blank"tyle="...">Confirm now</a>

I first used the :href=“$signedUrl” but it wasn’t working, so went back to that way.

It wasn’t easy to find “free” email template that are not full of images or too complex … :) If anyone have a website for that I’m interested.

Task 2: Save a cookie when you register and display a different page then.

Right now, when you put your email, it just show an alert to confirm, clear the text, and show you the input again.

I want to add a cookie so I know you register already and display a different text.

The way to create the cookie (yay with a queue!)

  Cookie::queue('register', 'whatever', 60 * 24 * 30 * 12);


  ... in blade file

   @if (!Cookie::get('register') && !session()->has('success'))
        <span>Show the form<span>
   @else
        <span>Show thank you register<span>
   @endif

Task 3: Install Laravel Seo package

composer require archtechx/laravel-seo

then for now I just did something like this in my homepage:

 seo()
  ->title(App::environment('APP_ENV') == 'local' ? '[DEV] DetectAny - Home' : 'DetectAny - Home')
  ->description('Detect Anything in an image, a video, a text, a sound, ... Coming Soon')
  ->image(asset('images/detectany.jpg'))
  ->url(url()->current());

Super simple and working perfectly -_-

Task 4: Install Filament!

Finally the goal of the day!

I think Filament is the “package” that make me wow Laravel! And I must say now that I’m using it I’m very must wow.

I had some issue in PHPStorm after installing Filament (quite weird) but just restarting PHPStorm solve the error.

But then I follow the “Get Started” from Filament and I create my first filament user, set the rules on my User model.

I mainly did some test and create an interface to manage the newsletter users in just like … 30 secondes!

Release command to deploy scripts in fly.io

Instead of using a release command where you can only put one command - i’ve created a script that I put inside

.fly/scripts/other.sh

...

#!/usr/bin/env bash
echo "Running other.sh"

/usr/bin/php /var/www/html/artisan migrate --force
/usr/bin/php /var/www/html/artisan icons:cache #For Filament.

I thought it was not working because I couldn’t see any logs in my github action log but in fact you have to launch

flyctl logs