Intro to Laravel
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Laravel is an MVC framework for PHP that focuses on unit testing and DRY principles. It is based on Symfony but has a lower learning curve. Laravel uses Composer as a package manager and features include Eloquent ORM, query builders, database migrations, RESTful controllers, queue management, and payment API support through packages. While powerful, it can be heavyweight for some uses and there is no built-in admin panel, but packages provide these features. The lighter-weight Lumen framework was also created by the same developer.
Intro to Laravel
- 1. Laravel? WTF is that?
- 2. Shameless Plug Gibson Tang Founder of Azukisoft Pte Ltd
- 3. What is Laravel? MVC framework With Dependency Injection Focus on Unit Tests DRY principles
- 4. Introduction Currently at version 5.0 Version 4.2 is still popular 5.1 will be coming soon
- 5. Laravel Based on Symfony Symfony has a higher learning curve Laravel has the opposite http://www.sitepoint.com/best-php- framework-2015-sitepoint-survey-results/
- 6. Laravel
- 7. Laravel Uses Composer as a package manager Not Pear As Pear sucks You can't have a MVC framework without a package manager, can you?
- 8. Laravel In a nutshell, as my friend said it 'It is like Rails for PHP' This sounds like heresy to all the Rails people here Well, everyone has their own opinion
- 9. Laravel Coming from a CodeIgniter background Laravel makes it easy for you to focus on the business logic As the other boilerplate stuff is abstracted away
- 10. Laravel In the database.php file, you just need to fill in these parameters 'mysql' => array( 'driver' => 'mysql', 'host' => '127.0.0.1', 'database' => 'wordpress', 'port' => '3306', 'username' => 'root', 'password' => 'foobar123', 'charset' => 'utf8',
- 11. Laravel Laravel also abstracts away the syntax using ORMs and Query Builders Has build in protection against SQL injections Eloquent Fluent
- 12. Laravel Eloquent ORM $result = Customer::where('name', '=' 'Handsome')- >get(); Instead of Select * from Customer where name = 'Handsome';
- 13. Laravel Fluent Query Builder $result = DB::table('customer')->where('id', 4)->get(); Instead of Select * from Customer where id = 4';
- 14. Laravel Database Migration Think of it as git for your database Except without the confusing and fun bits Easy seeding of database tables
- 15. Laravel RESTful Controllers (Good for creating RESTful APIs) Queue management In-house support for Redis Inhouse support for payment APIs using the Laravel Cashier package which interfaces with Stripe
- 17. Laravel A lot of resources http://www.Laracasts.com http://www.packalyst.com for Laravel packages http://laravel-recipes.com/ Among others
- 18. Laravel Laravel sounds like the best thing that happened since sliced bread So what's the downside?
- 19. Laravel What's wrong? It's still using PHP Composer can be a memory hog when you run 'composer update' Can be too heavyweight for some use cases
- 20. Laravel No build in admin panel But there is a package for that Not as established as Python/Django or RoR But that means that Laravel has a lot of cool stuff coming it's way
- 21. Laravel For a lightweight framework Check out Lumen lumen.laravel.com Created by the same guy aka OMO(One Man Operation) who developed Laravel It integrates well with Laravel
- 22. Laravel Thank you. Any questions?