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Learning Laravel 4 Application Development

By : Hardik Dangar
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Learning Laravel 4 Application Development

By: Hardik Dangar

Overview of this book

<p>Laravel 4 is a clean and classy framework for PHP web development. It attempts to ease the development of web applications by simplifying the common tasks required in the majority of web projects, such as authentication, routing, sessions, and caching.</p> <p>"Learning Laravel 4 Application Development" uses a step-by-step approach to teach you how to build real-world web applications. You will learn how to create a web application from scratch as well as how to create and use packages to build reusable components to be used in your projects.</p> <p>This book begins by familiarizing you with MVC concepts as well as the Laravel 4 framework. From there, it moves on to the creation of the frontend and backend of your web application. As you progress through the book, you will learn how you can authenticate users as well as develop RESTful APIs. You will also learn how to configure, optimize, and secure your applications. Lastly, it teaches you how to deploy your applications using different approaches like Git, FTP, and SSH.</p> <p>Laravel 4 Application Development will teach you everything you need to know to create accessible real-world web applications quickly and efficiently.</p>

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Learning Laravel 4 Application Development
Hardik Dangar
Dec, 2013 | 256 pages
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Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Learning Laravel 4 Application Development
Learning Laravel 4 Application Development
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
Welcome to the World of Laravel
Welcome to the World of Laravel
Landing yourself into the MVC world
Why Laravel 4 is awesome! And why it must be your next framework
Summary
2
Let's Begin the Journey
Let's Begin the Journey
Installing Laravel 4 on Windows
Installing Laravel 4 on Linux/Ubuntu
Installing Laravel 4 on Mac
Summary
3
Creating a Simple CRUD Application in Hours
Creating a Simple CRUD Application in Hours
Getting familiar with Laravel 4
Summary
4
Building a Real-life Application with Laravel 4 – The Foldagram
Building a Real-life Application with Laravel 4 – The Foldagram
Preparing the schema
Summary
5
Creating a Cart Package for Our Application
Creating a Cart Package for Our Application
Introducing IoC container
Dependency Injection
Summary
6
User Management and Payment Gateway Integration
User Management and Payment Gateway Integration
Introducing the Sentry package
Setting up our user section
Checkout and payment gateway integration
Summary
7
The Admin Section
The Admin Section
Building the foundation for the administration section
Creating a login section for the administrator
Managing orders
Exporting orders
Managing Foldagram pricing
Adding credit for the user
Managing users
Summary
8
Building a RESTful API with Laravel – Store Locator
Building a RESTful API with Laravel – Store Locator
REST basics
A store locator's single page web application
Summary
9
Optimizing and Securing Our Applications
Optimizing and Securing Our Applications
Handling errors
Profiling Laravel applications
Logging data with Laravel
Security in Laravel
Summary
10
Deploying Laravel Applications
Deploying Laravel Applications
Creating production configuration
Creating a directory structure based on your web host
Uploading your Laravel application directory files
Creating a database in the production site and uploading your local database on the production site
Giving proper permissions to your storage files
Setting up .htaccess based on your server
Summary
11
Creating a Workflow and Useful Laravel Packages and Tools
Creating a Workflow and Useful Laravel Packages and Tools
Creating a workflow
Summary
Index
Index

Installing Laravel 4 on Mac

You will need to install a web server before installing anything else. You can do that by installing the MAMP server using the following prepackaged development environment:

Once you install the MAMP server, you can install Composer using the following command line:

$ brew tap josegonzalez/homebrew-php
$ brew install josegonzalez/php/composer

Or if you don't have homebrew installed, use the following command:

$ php -r "eval('?>'.file_get_contents('https://getcomposer.org/installer'));"

This will install Composer into the local directory of your project. To install it globally, you can copy your composer.phar file to your bin directory in /usr/local/.

Now you can download Laravel 4 from the download section at http://laravel.com or https://github.com/laravel/laravel/archive/master.zip; once the download is complete, you can extract it into /var/www of your system, which is generally the document root of your...

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