Mastering Laravel: Retrieving Products from Nested Categories using Many-to-Many Relationship and Sorting the Result

This post is about how to navigate the waters of Laravel—an excellent PHP framework—and we’re going to focus on an interesting and essential feature: retrieving products from nested categories using a Many-to-Many relationship and ordering the result. So, if you’ve been grappling with this particular challenge, you’ve come to the right place. Let’s dive right…

Troubleshooting ‘Unknown database type json requested, Doctrine\DBAL\Platforms\MySQL57Platform may not support it’ Error in Laravel

Introduction If you’re a Laravel developer, you may have encountered the frustrating error message “Unknown database type json requested, Doctrine\DBAL\Platforms\MySQL57Platform may not support it” when running the php artisan migrate command. This error occurs when you try to modify a string field to a text field in your migration file. In this blog post, we’ll…