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Laravel Application Development Cookbook

By : Terry Matula
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Laravel Application Development Cookbook

By: Terry Matula

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.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Laravel Application Development Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Querying using Fluent


Laravel provides many ways to access databases. If we choose not to write raw SQL statements, we can use the Fluent query builder to make things easier.

Getting ready

For this recipe, we'll be using the table created in the Creating data tables using migrations and schemas recipe.

How to do it...

To complete this recipe, follow these steps:

  1. In the command prompt, create a migration so we can add some data:

    php artisan migrate:make add_data_to_shows_table
    
  2. In our app/database/migrations directory, find a file similar to 2012_01_01_222551_add_data_to_shows_table.php, and add some data using the Fluent query builder:

    class AddDataToShowsTable {
    
        /**
         * Make changes to the database.
         *
         * @return void
         */
        public function up()
        {
            $data1 = array('name' => 'Doctor Who',
                'rating' => 9, 'actor' => 'Matt Smith');
            $data2 = array('name' => 'Arrested Development',
                'rating' => 10, 'actor' => 'Jason Bateman...