Laravel: Up and Running: A Framework for Building Modern PHP Apps

About this book

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 Stauffera leading teacher and developer in the Laravel communityprovides the definitive introduction to one of todays most popular web frameworks. The books 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 Laravels powerful custom templating tool Tools for gathering validating normalizing and filtering user-provided data Laravels Eloquent ORM for working with the applications databases The Illuminate request object and its role in the application lifecycle PHPUnit Mockery and PHPSpec for testing your PHP code Laravels 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 Laravels specialty packages: Scout Passport Cashier Echo Elixir Valet and Socialite