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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

Building a favorites Ajax widget in Angular


What I will cover in this section is adding the ability for a user to click on a star next to the comic, and then it will be saved to the database, and added it as a Favorite via a widget on the page.

This is what they will see on the search results page:

When they click on the Favorites Tab, they see only their Favorites and can remove them:

This way you can see and remove Favorites. And since I am using a lot of the same layout, it should save me time.

Getting ready

See the previous recipe for setting up the model or just follow along.

How it works…

  1. Return favorites into the Home Page JavaScript:

    The getUserInfo method is here:

  2. Then, make a tab area on the home page to show this resources/views/home/index.blade.php data:

  3. Then, we update the template called resources/views/home/_search.blade.php:

    We also update resources/views/home/_favorites.blade.php:

  4. Now, when users click on Favorites, they will see them (but there are none):

  5. Now, add a button to the results...