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Laravel 5.x Cookbook

By : Terry Matula, Alfred Nutile
Book Image

Laravel 5.x Cookbook

By: Terry Matula, Alfred Nutile

Overview of this book

Laravel is a prominent member of a new generation of web frameworks. It is one of the most popular PHP frameworks and is also free and an open source. Laravel 5 is a substantial upgrade with a lot of new toys, at the same time retaining the features that made Laravel wildly successful. It comes with plenty of architectural as well as design-based changes. The book is a blend of numerous recipes that will give you all the necessary tips you need to build an application. It starts with basic installation and configuration tasks and will get you up-and-running in no time. You will learn to create and customize your PHP app and tweak and re-design your existing apps for better performance. You will learn to implement practical recipes to utilize Laravel’s modular structure, the latest method injection, route caching, and interfacing techniques to create responsive modern-day PHP apps that stand on their own against other apps. Efficient testing and deploying techniques will make you more confident with your Laravel skills as you move ahead with this book. Towards the end of the book, you will understand a number of add-ons and new features essential to finalize your application to make it ready for subscriptions. You will be empowered to get your application out to the world.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Laravel 5.x Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Setting up users and running migrations


Here, we will take a look at users, model, and migration as well as some steps for running them on your machine and more.

Getting ready

The base install of Laravel should make setting up for this easy. Just make sure to update your .env file for the correct database name and then make sure to provision your Vagrant box and you are ready. Also, we will be running this work from within our Vagrant box since the migrations will talk to the database on the default port.

How to do it...

  1. Set up your .env file to look like the following:

  2. Laravel comes with user migration so this is the easy part. All you need to do is run:

    >php artisan migrate
    

    And that is it!

  3. To rollback this work, you can type:

    >php artisan migrate:rollback
    

How it works...

Laravel 5.x made this super easy. You can see the migrations in the database/migration folder. You will see one in there to help with passwords as well. Don't want users? Just delete them. Many sites might not have users...