I am new to Laravel. Please excuse the newbie question but how do I find if a record exists?
$user = User::where('email', '=', Input::get('email'));
What can I do here to see if $user has a record?
I'm using Apache Web Server that has the owner set to _www:_www. I never know what is the best practice with file permissions, for example when I create new Laravel 5 project.
Laravel 5 requires /storage folder to be writable. I …