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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

Working with Composer install command and avoiding Composer update


Composer is an amazing tool in PHP which allows us to pull in libraries from https://packagist.org/ and even our own private repositories. We will cover how to install a library and note some steps to save time.

Getting ready

We covered installing Composer on your Mac in Chapter 1, Setting Up and Installing Laravel, though you can use it inside Homestead if you need to.

How to do it...

Perform the following steps to install Guzzle using Composer:

  1. In this example, we will use Composer to install Guzzle (a powerful PHP HTTP client). Make sure you are in your App directory, and in this example, I will be on my local computer and not in Homestead just to make the file processing go faster:

    >composer require "guzzlehttp/guzzle":"^6.1"
    

    This will take a minute or less to run.

  2. And that is it!

How it works...

First, let me say this is a good example of a short tip, which is better than a long one. Maybe other instructions will tell you...