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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Configuring Laravel

After installing Laravel, it's pretty much ready to go without much need for configuration. However, there are a few settings we want to make sure to update.

Getting ready

For this recipe, we need a regular installation of Laravel.

How to do it...

To complete this recipe, follow these steps:

Open /app/config/app.php and update these lines:

'url' => 'http://localhost/,
'locale' => 'en',
'key' => 'Seriously-ChooseANewKey',

Open app/config/database.php and choose your preferred database:

'default' => 'mysql',
'connections' => array(
    'mysql' => array(
        'driver'    => 'mysql',
        'host'      => 'localhost',
        'database'  => 'database',
        'username'  => 'root',
        'password'  => '',
        'charset'   => 'utf8',
        'collation' => 'utf8_unicode_ci',
        'prefix'    => '',
        ),
    ),

In the command line, go to the root of the app and make sure the storage folder is writable:
```
chmod –R 777 app/storage
```

How it works...

Most of the configuration will happen in the /app/config/app.php file. While setting the URL isn't required, and Laravel does a great job figuring it out without setting it, it's always good to remove any work from the framework that we can. Next, we set our location. If we choose to provide localization in our app, this setting will be our default. Then, we set our application key, since it's best to not keep the default.

Next, we set which database driver we'll be using. Laravel comes with four drivers out of the box: mysql, sqlite, sqlsrv (MS SQL Server), and pgsql (Postgres).

Finally, our app/storage directory will be used for keeping any temporary data, such as sessions or cache, if we choose. To allow this, we need to make sure the app can write to the directory.

There's more...

For an easy way to create a secure application key, remove the default key and leave it empty. Then, in your command line, navigate to your application root directory and type:

php artisan key:generate

That will create a unique and secure key and automatically save it in your configuration file.

Laravel Application Development Cookbook

By : Terry Matula

Laravel Application Development Cookbook

By: Terry Matula

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