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Laravel 5 Essentials

By : Martin Bean
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Laravel 5 Essentials

By: Martin Bean

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Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Laravel 5 Essentials
Laravel 5 Essentials
Credits
Credits
About the Author
About the Author
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
Free Chapter
1
An Introduction to Laravel
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
Setting Up a Development Environment
Meeting Composer
Working with the command line
Meet Homestead
Creating a new Laravel application
Summary
3
Your First Application
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
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
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
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
Authentication and Security
Authenticating users
Securing your application
Summary
An Arsenal of Tools
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

Credits

Author

Martin Bean

Reviewers

Si Fleming

Michael Peacock

Brayan Laurindo Rastelli

Michele Somma

Commissioning Editor

Akram Hussain

Acquisition Editor

Reshma Raman

Content Development Editor

Mohammed Fahad

Technical Editor

Ankur Ghiye

Copy Editors

Merilyn Pereira

Laxmi Subramanian

Project Coordinator

Danuta Jones

Proofreaders

Safis Editing

Paul Hindle

Indexer

Monica Ajmera Mehta

Production Coordinator

Nilesh R. Mohite

Cover Work

Nilesh R. Mohite

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