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Laravel 5 Essentials

By : Martin Bean

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Laravel 5 Essentials

3.7 (13)

By: Martin Bean

Overview of this book

This book is intended for PHP web developers who have an interest in Laravel and who know the basics of the framework in theory, but don't really know how to use it in practice. No experience of using frameworks is required, but it is assumed you are at least familiar with building dynamic websites in PHP already.

Preface

Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

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1. An Introduction to Laravel

1. An Introduction to Laravel

The need for frameworks

A new approach to developing PHP applications

Laravel's main features and sources of inspiration

Structure of a Laravel application

Summary

2. Setting Up a Development Environment

2. Setting Up a Development Environment

Meeting Composer

Working with the command line

Meet Homestead

Creating a new Laravel application

Summary

3. Your First Application

3. Your First Application

Planning our application

Starting the application

Writing the first routes

Preparing the database

Mastering Blade

Back to the routes

Moving from simple routing to powerful controllers

Summary

4. Eloquent ORM

4. Eloquent ORM

Eloquent conventions

Retrieving data

Saving data

Deleting data

Query scopes

Relationships

Model events

Collections

Summary

5. Testing – It's Easier Than You Think

5. Testing – It's Easier Than You Think

The benefits of testing

The anatomy of a test

Unit testing with PHPUnit

End-to-end testing

Summary

6. A Command-line Companion Called Artisan

6. A Command-line Companion Called Artisan

Keeping up with the latest changes

Inspecting and interacting with your application

Rolling out your own Artisan commands

Scheduling commands

Summary

7. Authentication and Security

7. Authentication and Security

Authenticating users

Securing your application

Summary

A. An Arsenal of Tools

A. An Arsenal of Tools

Array helpers

String and text manipulation

Dealing with files

Sending e-mails

Easier date and time handling with Carbon

Don't wait any longer with queues

Where to go next?

Index

Index

Chapter 2. Setting Up a Development Environment

Laravel is more than just a framework: a whole ecosystem and toolset has been developed around it to make building PHP applications faster and more enjoyable. These tools are entirely opt-in and the knowledge of them is not necessary to use and build projects in Laravel, but they do go hand-in-hand with the framework, so it's worth covering.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

Meeting Composer, a dependency manager
Introduction to Homestead, and using it to manage Laravel projects

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