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Laravel 5 Essentials

Laravel 5 Essentials

By : Martin Bean
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Laravel 5 Essentials

Laravel 5 Essentials

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By: Martin Bean
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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.
Table of Contents (10 chapters)
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Preface
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Preface
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What this book covers
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What you need for this book
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Who this book is for
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Conventions
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1. An Introduction to Laravel
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1. An Introduction to Laravel
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The need for frameworks
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A new approach to developing PHP applications
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Laravel's main features and sources of inspiration
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Structure of a Laravel application
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Summary
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2. Setting Up a Development Environment
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2. Setting Up a Development Environment
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Meeting Composer
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Working with the command line
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Meet Homestead
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Creating a new Laravel application
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3. Your First Application
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3. Your First Application
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Planning our application
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Starting the application
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Writing the first routes
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Preparing the database
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Mastering Blade
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Back to the routes
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Moving from simple routing to powerful controllers
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4. Eloquent ORM
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4. Eloquent ORM
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Eloquent conventions
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Retrieving data
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Saving data
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Deleting data
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Query scopes
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Relationships
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Model events
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Collections
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5. Testing – It's Easier Than You Think
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5. Testing – It's Easier Than You Think
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The benefits of testing
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The anatomy of a test
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Unit testing with PHPUnit
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End-to-end testing
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6. A Command-line Companion Called Artisan
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6. A Command-line Companion Called Artisan
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Keeping up with the latest changes
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Inspecting and interacting with your application
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Rolling out your own Artisan commands
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Scheduling commands
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7. Authentication and Security
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7. Authentication and Security
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Authenticating users
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Securing your application
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A. An Arsenal of Tools
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A. An Arsenal of Tools
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Array helpers
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String and text manipulation
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Dealing with files
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Sending e-mails
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Easier date and time handling with Carbon
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Don't wait any longer with queues
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Where to go next?
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Index
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Index

Rolling out your own Artisan commands

At this stage you might be thinking about writing your own bespoke commands. As you will see, this is surprisingly easy to do with Artisan. If you have used Symfony's Console component, you will be pleased to know that an Artisan command is simply an extension of it with a slightly more expressive syntax. This means the various helpers will prompt for input, show a progress bar, or format a table, are all available from within Artisan.

The command that we are going to write depends on the application we built in Chapter 3, Your First Application. It will allow you to export all cat records present in the database as a CSV with or without a header line. If no output file is specified, the command will simply dump all records onto the screen in a formatted table.

Creating the command

There are only two required steps to create a command. Firstly, you need to create the command itself, and then you need to register it manually.

We can make use of the following...

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