anthonykoch / laravelissues

A list of issues I've encountered while working in laravel.

#laravelissues

This is an assortment of errors that I've encountered while learning Laravel and Homestead. I started writing them all down just in case I encounter them again and can't remember what to do. Hopefully this helps anyone trying to learn Laravel and Homestead.

Laravel 4.2

MySQL

Could not stop/restart MySQL56 service in MySQL notifier

This solution fixed it for me

PHP Artisan can't migrate Posts due to access denied 'root'@'localhost'

Set port to 33060 in database config files

Access denied 'root'@'localhost' / could not connect to MySQL

Change the connection port from 3306 to 33060 in MySQL Workbench

Homestead File Mapping

Files would not map to virtual machine specified in src/stubs/Homestead.yaml

Run bash init.sh after every change made to homestead.yaml because it updates ~/.homestead/homestead.yaml which is where the VM really gets its config from.

Laravel doesn't display the welcome page

Set the site mapping to the public directory of where laravel is installed. e.g.

sites:
- map: blog.app
to: /home/vagrant/Websites/blog/public

Error Logging

Error logging won't turn off when setting debug to false in app/config/app.php

Set debug to false in both app/config/app.php AND app/config/local/app.php

Laravel 5.0

MySQL

SQLSTATE[HY000] [2002] Connection refused

Replace '127.0.0.1' to 'localhost' in database config

Migrations

Can not add foreign key to article_tags

Make sure foreign key and primary key have the same data type

Migration not working or something.

Use DB::table instead of Schema::table

Blade Templating

Class Form is not defined

Run composer require "Illuminate/html" in the command line, and add 'Illuminate\Html\HtmlServiceProvider' to service providers in /config/app.php

Form static methods produce escaped output

Use {!! Form::token() !!} to not escape characters. "Illuminate html with V5"

Model binding forms doesn't work

Change 'action' => 'articles.edit' to 'route' => 'articles.edit'

Homestead

Upgraded box Laravel/Homestead and it wouldn't boot up. Deleting the VM in VirtualBox and re-installing the box had no effect.

Not sure why this happened, but deleting ~/VirtualBox VMs/homestead ended up fixing it. This caused data loss in MySQL, however, so I had to re-configure MySQL and re-migrate.

Routing

Page returns text 403 Forbidden

Return true from EditArticleRequest.authorize method, ya dummy.