Laravel: Up and Running 2019

Mike Amazon Reply April 21, 2019

Laravel: Up and Running

O Reilly Media

What sets Laravel apart from other PHP web frameworks? Speed and simplicity, for starters. This rapid application development framework and its vast ecosystem of tools let you quickly build new sites and applications with clean, readable code. With this practical guide, Matt Stauffer--a leading teacher and developer in the Laravel community--provides the definitive introduction to one of today's most popular web frameworks.

The book's high-level overview and concrete examples will help experienced PHP web developers get started with Laravel right away. By the time you reach the last page, you should feel comfortable writing an entire application in Laravel from scratch.
Dive into several features of this framework, including:
Blade, Laravel's powerful, custom templating tool
Tools for gathering, validating, normalizing, and filtering user-provided data
Laravel's Eloquent ORM for working with the application's databases
The Illuminate request object, and its role in the application lifecycle
PHPUnit, Mockery, and PHPSpec for testing your PHP code
Laravel's tools for writing JSON and RESTful APIs
Interfaces for file system access, sessions, cookies, caches, and search
Tools for implementing queues, jobs, events, and WebSocket event publishing
Laravel's specialty packages: Scout, Passport, Cashier, Echo, Elixir, Valet, and Socialite

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Explore the fundamentals of Laravel, one of the most expressive and robust PHP frameworks available

About This Book

Create a dynamic web application that can read and write data to a database
Improve your PHP skills and develop a new outlook on solving programming issues
A step-by-step guide that covers the different steps involved in creating a complete Laravel application in an easy-to-understand manner

Who This Book Is For

This book is intended for PHP web developers who have an interest in Laravel and who know the basics of the framework in theory, but don't really know how to use it in practice. No experience of using frameworks is required, but it is assumed you are at least familiar with building dynamic websites in PHP already.

What You Will Learn

Set up a development environment for working with Laravel apps
Create a working Laravel application from start to finish
Int eract with data and discover Eloquent, Laravel's own ORM
Create and run migrations and seeds
Simplify command-line tasks by building Artisan commands
Protect your app by securing it from common security vulnerabilities
Perform end-to-end testing after learning the basics of testing in Laravel
Learn about Laravel's other features including service providers, packages, queue workers, and helpers for working with strings and arrays

In Detail

Laravel has established itself as one of the most popular PHP frameworks over the past couple of years. Its popularity comes due to its ease of use, expressive syntax, and the number of components it has, allowing you to achieve practically any task in a modern PHP application.

If you've not had the opportunity to dive into Laravel yet, then this book will be the perfect companion, as it covers the fundamentals Laravel is built on in a thorough yet easy-to-follow manner. To mak e this book your best learning source, we have covered integral topics such as preparing an environment for working with Laravel applications, creating your first Laravel application from start to finish, a tour of Laravel's ORM Eloquent, and more advanced topics such as testing, user authentication, and security. Being one of the most interesting features in Laravel, we also cover an overview of Artisan, including descriptions of some of its tasks. Post this, we talk about testing and security. By the end of this book, you will be able to create robust PHP websites and web applications quickly and efficiently.