Laravel Application Development Cookbook

Laravel Application Development Cookbook

By : Terry Matula

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Laravel Application Development Cookbook

By: Terry Matula

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Overview of this book

When creating a web application, there are many PHP frameworks from which to choose. Some are very easy to set up, and some have a much steeper learning curve. Laravel offers both paths. You can do a quick installation and have your app up-and-running in no time, or you can use Laravel's extensibility to create an advanced and fully-featured app.Laravel Application Development Cookbook provides you with working code examples for many of the common problems that web developers face. In the process, it will also allow both new and existing Laravel users to expand their knowledge of the framework.This book will walk you through all aspects of Laravel development. It begins with basic set up and installation procedures, and continues through more advanced use cases. You will also learn about all the helpful features that Laravel provides to make your development quick and easy. For more advanced needs, you will also see how to utilize Laravel's authentication features and how to create a RESTful API.In the Laravel Application Development Cookbook, you will learn everything you need to know about a great PHP framework, with working code that will get you up-and-running in no time.

Laravel Application Development Cookbook

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

www.PacktPub.com

Preface

Free Chapter

Setting Up and Installing Laravel

Introduction

Installing Laravel as a git submodule

Setting up a virtual host and development environment in Apache

Creating "clean" URLs

Configuring Laravel

Using Laravel with Sublime Text 2

Setting up your IDE to autocomplete Laravel's namespaces

Using Autoloader to map a class name to its file

Creating advanced Autoloaders with namespaces and directories

Using Forms and Gathering Input

Introduction

Creating a simple form

Gathering form input to display on another page

Validating user input

Creating a file uploader

Validating a file upload

Creating a custom error message

Adding a honey pot to a form

Uploading an image using Redactor

Cropping an image with Jcrop

Creating an autocomplete text input

Making a CAPTCHA-style spam catcher

Authenticating Your Application

Introduction

Setting up and configuring the Auth library

Creating an authentication system

Retrieving and updating user info after logging in

Restricting access to certain pages

Setting up OAuth with the HybridAuth package

Using OpenID for logins

Logging in using Facebook credentials

Logging in using Twitter credentials

Logging in using LinkedIn

Storing and Using Data

Introduction

Creating data tables using migrations and schemas

Querying using raw SQL statements

Querying using Fluent

Querying using Eloquent ORM

Using automatic validation in models

Using advanced Eloquent and relationships

Creating a CRUD system

Importing a CSV using Eloquent

Using RSS as a data source

Using attributes to change table column names

Using a non-Eloquent ORM in Laravel

Using Controllers and Routes for URLs and APIs

Introduction

Creating a basic controller

Creating a route using a closure

Creating a RESTful controller

Using advanced routing

Using a filter on the route

Using route groups

Building a RESTful API with routes

Using named routes

Using a subdomain in your route

Displaying Your Views

Introduction

Creating and using a basic view

Passing data into a view

Loading a view into another view/nested views

Adding assets

Creating a view using Blade

Using TWIG templates

Utilizing advanced Blade usage

Creating localization of content

Creating menus in Laravel

Integrating with Bootstrap

Using named views and view composers

Creating and Using Composer Packages

Introduction

Downloading and installing packages

Using the Generators package to set up an app

Creating a Composer package in Laravel

Adding your Composer package to Packagist

Adding a non-Packagist package to Composer

Creating a custom artisan command

Using Ajax and jQuery

Introduction

Getting data from another page

Setting up a controller to return JSON data

Creating an Ajax search function

Creating and validating a user using Ajax

Filtering data based on checkbox selection

Making an Ajax newsletter sign-up box

Sending an e-mail using Laravel and jQuery

Creating a sortable table using jQuery and Laravel

Using Security and Sessions Effectively

Introduction

Encrypting and decrypting data

Hashing passwords and other data

Using CSRF tokens and filters in forms

Using advanced validation in forms

Building a shopping cart

Using Redis to save sessions

Using basic sessions and cookies

Creating a secure API server

Testing and Debugging Your App

Introduction

Setting up and configuring PHPUnit

Writing and running a test case

Using Mockery to test controllers

Writing acceptance tests using Codeception

Debugging and profiling your app

Deploying and Integrating Third-party Services into Your Application

Introduction

Creating a queue and using Artisan to run it

Deploying a Laravel app to Pagoda Box

Using the Stripe payment gateway with Laravel

Doing a GeoIP lookup and setting custom routing

Gathering e-mail addresses and using them with a third-party e-mail service

Storing and retrieving cloud content from Amazon S3

Index

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Installing Laravel as a git submodule

There may be a time when we want to have our Laravel installation separate from the rest of our public files. In this case, installing Laravel as a git submodule would be a solution. This will allow us to update our Laravel files through git without touching our application code.

Getting ready

To get started, we should have our development server running as well as have git installed. In the server's web directory, create a myapp directory to hold our files. Installation will all be done in the command line.

How to do it...

To complete this recipe, follow these steps:

In your terminal or command line, navigate to the root of myapp. The first step is to initialize git and download our project files:
```
$ git init
$ git clone [email protected]:laravel/laravel.git
```
Since all we need is the public directory, move to /laravel and delete everything else:
```
$ cd laravel
$ rm –r app bootstrap vendor
```

Then, move back to the root directory, create a framework directory, and add Laravel as a submodule:

$ cd ..
$ mkdir framework
$ cd framework
$ git init
$ git submodule add https://github.com/laravel/laravel.git

Now we need to run Composer to install the framework:
```
php composer.phar install
```
Tip
More information about installing Composer can be found at http://getcomposer.org/doc/00-intro.md. The rest of the book will assume we're using composer.phar, but we could also add it globally and simply call it by typing composer.

Now, open /laravel/public/index.php and find the following lines:

require __DIR__.'/../bootstrap/autoload.php';
$app = require_once __DIR__.'/../bootstrap/start.php';

Change the preceding lines to:

require __DIR__.'/../../framework/laravel/bootstrap/autoload.php';
$app = require_once __DIR__.'/../../framework/laravel/bootstrap/start.php';

How it works...

For many, simply running git clone would be enough to get their project going. However, since we want to have our framework act as a submodule, we need to separate those files from our project.

First, we download the files from GitHub, and since we don't need any of the framework files, we can delete everything but our public folder. Then, we create our submodule in the framework directory and download everything there. When that's complete, we run composer install to get all our vendor packages installed.

To get the framework connected to our application, we modify /laravel/public/index.php and change the require paths to our framework directory. That will let our application know exactly where the framework files are located.

There's more...

One alternative solution is to move the public directory to our server's root. Then, while updating our index.php file, we'll use __DIR__ . '/../framework/laravel/bootstrap' to include everything correctly.

Laravel Application Development Cookbook

By : Terry Matula

Laravel Application Development Cookbook

By: Terry Matula

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