UPHPU Laravel

A quick/easy introduction to Laravel for the Utah PHP User Group.

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1. Laravel A Mostly Gentle Introduction. Mostly.
2. $ whoami Brian Rogers PHP Developer (using Laravel) Twitter: @captbrogers GitHub: captbrogers URL: ditoforge.com Other Code: gogs.ditoforge.com Slides:
3. What Is Laravel • A MVC framework • Requirements: • PHP >= 5.5.9 • OpenSSL extension • PDO extension • Mbstring • Mcrypt • Tokenizer
4. Why Choose Laravel? • Small learning curve • Uses Composer • Many built-in packages (Carbon, Guzzle, etc) • Helpful pre-built packages • Cashier (billing, subscriptions) • Socialite (OAuth integrations) • Choose the right version for you
5. Laravel Versions • Version 5.2 (latest stable release, short life) • Released December 2015 • Many fixes and enhancements • Version 5.1 (latest stable release, LTS) • Released June 2015 • 2 years of bugfixes, 3 years of security fixes • Version 4.2 (legacy) • Has been EOL'd • Do not use for any production environment
6. Installing Laravel All require Composer • $ composer create-project --prefer-dist laravel/laravel projectName • $ composer global require “laravel/installer” • $ laravel new projectName • Download from GitHub, composer install
7. Artisan Your Pneumatic Double-Claw Hammer
8. Artisan • A command-line tool included with Laravel • Helps automate common tasks • Create new controllers, models, migrations, clear caches, seed databases, etc. • Can be extended • You can write your own commands to accomplish almost any task you need • Use Artisan to generate a stubbed Artisan command class
9. Routes • All routes are defined in a single file • For 5.x - /app/Http/routes.php • For 4.2 - /app/routes.php
10. Routes Example routes
11. Controllers Where your logic goes • For 5.x - /app/Http/Controllers • For 4.2 - /app/controllers