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Laravel Application Development Cookbook

By : Terry Matula
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Laravel Application Development Cookbook

By: Terry Matula

Overview of this book

When creating a web application, there are many PHP frameworks from which to choose. Some are very easy to set up, and some have a much steeper learning curve. Laravel offers both paths. You can do a quick installation and have your app up-and-running in no time, or you can use Laravel's extensibility to create an advanced and fully-featured app.Laravel Application Development Cookbook provides you with working code examples for many of the common problems that web developers face. In the process, it will also allow both new and existing Laravel users to expand their knowledge of the framework.This book will walk you through all aspects of Laravel development. It begins with basic set up and installation procedures, and continues through more advanced use cases. You will also learn about all the helpful features that Laravel provides to make your development quick and easy. For more advanced needs, you will also see how to utilize Laravel's authentication features and how to create a RESTful API.In the Laravel Application Development Cookbook, you will learn everything you need to know about a great PHP framework, with working code that will get you up-and-running in no time.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Laravel Application Development Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Creating a queue and using Artisan to run it


There may be times when our app is required to do a lot of work behind the scenes to accomplish a task. Instead of making a user wait until the tasks are complete, we can add them to a queue and do the processing later. There are many queue systems available but Laravel has a few that are very easy to implement. In this recipe, we'll be using IronMQ.

Getting ready

For this recipe, we'll need a working installation of Laravel 4, as well as API credentials for IronMQ. A free account can be created at http://www.iron.io/.

How to do it...

To complete this recipe, follow the given steps:

  1. In the app/config directory, open the queue.php file, set the default value to iron and fill in the credentials from IronMQ.

  2. Open Laravel's composer.json file and update the required section so it looks resembles the following snippet:

    "require": {
    "laravel/framework": "4.0.*",
    "iron-io/iron_mq": "dev-master"
    }
  3. In the command line window, update the composer file with the...