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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

Creating scheduler to notify users of new comics


Now is the time for another superpower feature built into Laravel—scheduling! OK, it does not sound that exciting, but the fact that I can set one cron job on my server to do all my tasks makes it a lot easier to move my features from server to server. I will show here one example of how to use it based on the console command that I made previously.

Getting ready

A base install of Laravel is fine. If you follow the preceding recipe, you will have a decent size command to run via this scheduling example.

How to do it…

  1. In the previous recipe, we ran php artisan make:console GetUsersLatestsFavoritesConsole to get a console command. Then, I added some query work over there to make it do its thing.

  2. I then updated the code in app/Console/Commands/GetUsersLatestsFavoritesConsole.php to catch any issues and put them in the logs. This way, I can see when things go wrong, since I will not be running this at the command line. I will talk about this more in...