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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

Adding assets


A dynamic website almost requires the use of CSS and JavaScript. Using a Laravel asset package provides an easy way to manage these assets and include them in our views.

Getting ready

For this recipe, we'll need to use the code created in the Loading a view into another view/nested views recipe.

How to do it...

To complete this recipe, follow these steps:

  1. Open the composer.json file and add the asset package to the require section, so it looks similar to the following:

    "require": {
          "laravel/framework": "4.0.*",
          "teepluss/asset": "dev-master"
      },
  2. In the command line, run composer update to download the package as follows:

    php composer.phar update
    
  3. Open the app/config/app.php file and add ServiceProvider to the end of the providers array as follows:

    'Teepluss\Asset\AssetServiceProvider',
  4. In the same file, in the aliases array, add the alias for the package as follows:

    'Asset' => 'Teepluss\Asset\Facades\Asset'
  5. In the app/filters.php file, add a custom filter for our assets...