Index

A

• actions
  • about / Moving from simple routing to powerful controllers
• application
  • planning / Planning our application
  • entities / Entities, relationships, and attributes
  • relationships / Entities, relationships, and attributes
  • attributes / Entities, relationships, and attributes
  • route / The map of our application
  • starting / Starting the application
  • namespace, setting / Setting the application namespace
  • interacting with / Inspecting and interacting with your application
  • inspecting / Inspecting and interacting with your application
  • internals, fiddling with / Fiddling with the internals
  • engine, turning off / Turning the engine off
  • fine-tuning / Fine-tuning your application
  • routes, caching / Caching routes
  • generators / Generators
• application, securing
  • about / Securing your application
  • Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) / Cross-site request forgery
  • Cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks / Escaping content to prevent cross-site scripting (XSS)
  • SQL injection, avoiding / Avoiding SQL injection
  • mass assignment, using / Using mass assignment with care
  • cookies / Cookies – secure by default
  • HTTPS, forcing on sensitive data exchange / Forcing HTTPS when exchanging sensitive data
• application namespace
  • setting / Setting the application namespace
• Ardent
  • URL / Validating user input
• array helpers
  • about / Array helpers
  • usage, examples / The usage examples of array helpers
• Artisan Anywhere
  • URL / Keeping up with the latest changes
• Artisan commands
  • rolling out / Rolling out your own Artisan commands
  • creating / Creating the command
  • anatomy / The anatomy of a command
  • writing / Writing the command
  • scheduling / Scheduling commands
• assertions
  • about / Defining what you expect with assertions
• attributes / Entities, relationships, and attributes

B

• Bcrypt algorithm / Creating the necessary database schema
• Blade
  • mastering / Mastering Blade
  • master view, creating / Creating a master view
• boolean functions
  • about / Boolean functions
• boolean methods, Carbon / Boolean methods
• Bootstrap CSS framework
  • URL / Creating a master view

C

• Carbon
  • about / Filtering records
  • URL / Filtering records, Easier date and time handling with Carbon
  • date, handling / Easier date and time handling with Carbon
  • time, handling / Easier date and time handling with Carbon
  • objects, instantiating / Instantiating Carbon objects
  • user-friendly timestamps, outputting / Outputting user-friendly timestamps
  • boolean methods / Boolean methods
  • for Eloquent DateTime properties / Carbon for Eloquent DateTime properties
• cats
  • adding / Adding, editing, and deleting cats
  • editing / Adding, editing, and deleting cats
  • deleting / Adding, editing, and deleting cats
• closure-based routes
  • about / Moving from simple routing to powerful controllers
• collections
  • about / Collections
  • key existence, checking / Checking whether a key exists in a collection
• command-line interface (CLI)
  • working with / Working with the command line
• commands
  • scheduling / Scheduling commands
  • scheduled commands output, viewing / Viewing the output of scheduled commands
• Composer
  • about / Meeting Composer
• convention over configuration
  • about / Eloquent conventions
• Create-Retrieve-Update-Delete (CRUD)
  • about / Planning our application
• Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) / Cross-site request forgery
• Cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks / Escaping content to prevent cross-site scripting (XSS)

D

• data
  • retrieving / Retrieving data, Filtering records
  • saving / Saving data
  • deleting / Deleting data
  • hard-deletes / Soft deletion
  • soft-deletes / Soft deletion
  • deleted models, including in results / Including deleted models in results
  • storing, in pivot table / Storing data in the pivot table
• database
  • preparing / Preparing the database
  • Eloquent models, creating / Creating Eloquent models
  • schema, building / Building the database schema
  • seeding / Seeding the database
• database schema
  • building / Building the database schema
• DomCrawler component
  • URL / Inspecting the rendered views
• dot notation / Array helpers

E

• e-mails
  • sending / Sending e-mails
• Eloquent conventions
  • about / Eloquent conventions
  • URL / Checking whether a key exists in a collection
• Eloquent models
  • creating / Creating Eloquent models
• end-to-end testing
  • about / End-to-end testing
  • batteries / Testing – batteries included
  • framework assertions / Framework assertions
  • users, impersonating / Impersonating users
  • database, testing with / Testing with a database
  • rendered views, inspecting / Inspecting the rendered views
• entities / Entities, relationships, and attributes
• exceptions
  • expecting / Expecting exceptions

F

• files
  • dealing with / Dealing with files
  • uploads / File uploads
• flash data
  • about / Creating a master view
• Flysystem project / Dealing with files
• foreign key
  • about / Building the database schema
• foreign key constraint / Creating the necessary database schema
• form requests / Form requests
• frameworks
  • need for / The need for frameworks

H

• has-many-through relationship / Has-many-through
• homemade tools
  • limitations / The limitations of homemade tools
• Homestead
  • about / Meet Homestead
  • installing / Installing Homestead
  • usage / Everyday usage of Homestead
  • websites, adding / Adding additional websites
  • databases, connecting to / Connecting to your databases
• HTTP exceptions
  • handling / Handling HTTP exceptions
• HTTPS
  • forcing, on sensitive data exchange / Forcing HTTPS when exchanging sensitive data
• HTTP status codes
  • URL / Handling HTTP exceptions

I

• inflection functions
  • about / Inflection functions

L

• Laravel
  • to rescue / Laravel to the rescue
  • features / Laravel's main features and sources of inspiration, Expressiveness and simplicity
  • naming / Responsibilities, naming, and conventions
  • responsibilities / Responsibilities, naming, and conventions
  • conventions / Responsibilities, naming, and conventions
  • version changes / Changes in Version 5 from Version 4
  • modifications / Keeping up with the latest changes
  • resources, URL / Where to go next?
• Laravel 4.3 / Changes in Version 5 from Version 4
• Laravel 5 / Changes in Version 5 from Version 4
• Laravel application
  • structure / Structure of a Laravel application
  • service container / The service container and request lifecycle
  • exploring / Exploring Laravel
  • creating / Creating a new Laravel application

M

• MAMP / Meet Homestead
• many-to-many polymorphic relations / Many-to-many polymorphic relations
• many-to-many relationship / Many-to-many
• mass assignment
  • about / Creating Eloquent models, Mass assignment
  • managing / Using mass assignment with care
• master template
  • about / Creating a master view
• master view
  • creating / Creating a master view
• middleware / Middleware
• model events
  • about / Model events
  • event listeners, registering / Registering event listeners
  • model observers / Model observers

N

• Node Package Manager (npm) / Meeting Composer

O

• one-to-many relationship
  • about / Relationships
• one-to-one relationship
  • about / One-to-one
• overloading
  • about / Adding, editing, and deleting cats

P

• page, cat
  • displaying / Displaying a cat's page
• PHP
  • embracing / Embracing PHP
• PHP applications
  • developing, approach / A new approach to developing PHP applications
  • HTTP foundation / A more robust HTTP foundation
  • embracing / Embracing PHP
• PHP Extension and Application Repository (PEAR) / Meeting Composer
• PHPUnit
  • URL / Defining what you expect with assertions
• Plain Old PHP Objects (POPOs) / Collections
• polymorphic relations / Polymorphic relations

Q

• query scopes
  • about / Query scopes
• queues
  • about / Don't wait any longer with queues
  • command, creating / Creating a command and pushing it onto the queue
  • listening to / Listening to a queue and executing jobs
  • jobs, executing / Listening to a queue and executing jobs
  • job failure, notiifications / Getting notified when a job fails
  • without background processes / Queues without background processes

R

• Read-Eval-Print Loop (REPL) / Fiddling with the internals
• redirections
  • performing / Performing redirections
• relationship
  • Many-to-many polymorphic relations / Many-to-many polymorphic relations
• relationships / Entities, relationships, and attributes
  • about / Relationships
  • one-to-one relationship / One-to-one
  • many-to-many relationship / Many-to-many
  • has-many-through relationship / Has-many-through
  • has-many-through / Has-many-through
  • polymorphic relations / Polymorphic relations
• resource controllers
  • about / Resource controllers
• route
  • about / The map of our application
• route-model binding
  • about / Route-model binding
• route parameters
  • restricting / Restricting the route parameters
• routes
  • writing / Writing the first routes
  • route parameters, restricting / Restricting the route parameters
  • HTTP exceptions, handling / Handling HTTP exceptions
  • redirections, performing / Performing redirections
  • views, returning / Returning views
  • about / Back to the routes
  • overview page / The overview page
  • authenticating / Authentication routes and views
• routing
  • moving, to controllers / Moving from simple routing to powerful controllers

S

• Silex
  • about / Moving from simple routing to powerful controllers
• Slim
  • about / Moving from simple routing to powerful controllers
• SQL injection
  • avoiding / Avoiding SQL injection
• string manipulation
  • about / String and text manipulation

T

• testing
  • benefits / The benefits of testing
• tests
  • benefits / The benefits of testing
  • anatomy / The anatomy of a test
  • tasks / The anatomy of a test
• text manipulation
  • about / String and text manipulation
• transformation functions
  • about / Transformation functions

U

• unit testing
  • with PHPUnit / Unit testing with PHPUnit
  • assertions / Defining what you expect with assertions
  • objects, cleaning up / Preparing the scene and cleaning up objects
  • scene, preparing / Preparing the scene and cleaning up objects
  • exceptions, expecting / Expecting exceptions
  • interdependent classes in isolation, testing / Testing interdependent classes in isolation
• user input, validating
  • form requests / Form requests
• users, authenticating
  • about / Authenticating users
  • user model, creating / Creating the user model
  • database schema, creating / Creating the necessary database schema
  • routes, authenticating / Authentication routes and views
  • views, authenticating / Authentication routes and views
  • middleware / Middleware
  • user input, validating / Validating user input

V

• Vagrant
  • URL / Installing Homestead
• validation rules
  • URL / Validating user input
• view composers
  • about / Adding, editing, and deleting cats
• views
  • returning / Returning views
  • authenticating / Authentication routes and views
• VirtualBox
  • URL / Installing Homestead
• Virtual Machines (VMs) / Meet Homestead

W

• WampServer / Meet Homestead