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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

About the Reviewers

Sean Mumford is a web developer currently writing HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and object-oriented PHP in Nashville, Tennessee. He has a decade of experience writing code and eight years of experience in writing code that doesn't suck. He currently develops web applications on behalf of Tennessee's taxpayers at the TN Secretary of State's office. He occasionally dabbles in freelance work and unrealistically ambitious side projects.

I'd like to thank Taylor Otwell, Sean McCool, Jeffery Way, and the other community leaders for making Laravel the framework it is and helping me become a better developer. I'd also like to thank the author for taking the time and energy to write a book on developing with Laravel, and Packt Publishing for having the confidence in my knowledge and experience to include me as a technical reviewer.

Michele Somma is an Italian web developer skilled in PHP, MySQL, and some new frameworks such as jQuery, jQuery UI, and Twitter Bootstrap. He has been a major user of PHP CodeIgniter Framework for over two years and recently migrated to the new Framework Laravel. He likes to develop both frontend and backend application with new technology. He is working at a web agency in Bari (Italy) developing a large variety of websites and web applications since 2010 and as part of GitHub, he tries to contribute to various projects in his spare time.

I want to thank my great friend Linda for giving me the courage to start this project and continue to support me.

Rahul Taiwala started his career as a web developer in college, learning PHP and Adobe Photoshop. He works with open source technologies: Laravel 4 framework, Code Igniter, MySQL, jQuery, and Bootstrap are some of the tools he has up his sleeve. He also works with C# and VB.NET.

In his free time, he loves to work on personal projects. He also does some freelance and consulting work. He knows he has a lot to learn, but his experience has taught him to solve real-world and business problems.

He is currently working as a web developer at MadlyMint Technovative; he is also one of the directors at MadlyMint Technovative.

I would like to thank my family and friends for all their support and encouragement.

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