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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
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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

About the Author

Hardik Dangar is co-founder of Sphere Rays Technolabs Pvt. Ltd. His primary focus has been on web-based ERP systems for the last six years. Lately, he has been working with a few of the key startups to shape their core ideas into architectural development and implementation of projects from inception. He can be found on Google+ developer communities and IRC channels of various frameworks helping people and building communities.

First of all, thanks to the entire team at Packt Publishing for helping me through the entire process of book writing. I would like to thank Martin Bell for helping me to get though the initial nerves when I started. I would also like to thank Saleem Ahmed for the later part of the book and Angel Jathanna for being helpful in making my schedule work and bearing with my schedules. And thanks to all the other people who have worked incredibly hard to make this possible.

I would like to thank Taylor Otwell for crafting Laravel—the most elegant framework I have ever worked on. Laravel has changed the way I do Web development.

I'd also like to thank Preetam and Anup for doing a third-person review of the book and making many helpful suggestions.

Last, but not the least, thanks to my entire family for their love, support, and patience. Many thanks to my wife, Jagruti, for her understanding and support during the writing of this book.

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