An Introduction to the Laravel Framework (AFUP Forum PHP 2014)
- 1. ( and history of ) An Introduction to Laravel PHP
- 2. Who the fudge is this guy? âą Dayle Rees. âą 30 in December. *cry* âą Lives in Cardiff with GF Emma.
- 3. Welsh! ( Sounds English )
- 4. The Red Panda Guy Also Big Panda / PHPanda / 1000s of others. ( Now, Le Panda Rouge? )
- 5. âą Head of Development âą Startup (Seed round A) âą Index Ventures (Facebook!) âą Sharing Economy âą http://www.justpark.com âą (Previously ParkatmyHouse)
- 6. Laravel Team Member âą One of the first users. âą Team of high profile PHP developers. âą Laravel 3 Bundles âą Laravel 4 Bundles
- 7. Accidental Author Over 7000 readers. #1 gross earnings. http://leanpub.com/codebright
- 8. Laracons! Spoke Washington DC (Laracon US 2013) New York (Laracon US 2014) Attended Amsterdam (Laracon EU 2013) Amsterdam (Laracon EU 2014)
- 9. Colour Schemes âEngineerâ http://github.com/daylerees/colour-schemes 100 or so themes for a numbers of editors and libraries.
- 11. Merci!
- 12. Whatâs this talk all about? Open source, history and growth. (Story time.) Laravel. (Cool stuff!)
- 13. Letâs go back in time to 2011! (Imagine wibbly-wobbly effect.)
- 14. Working in Aberystwyth âąUsing CodeIgniter. âąSimple projects. âąNo side projects. âąNot âknownâ for anything.
- 15. Contributed to CodeIgniter Started out with graphic contributions. Accepted by Phil Sturgeon. (Thanks Phil!) Rejected by EllisLab. Started to outgrow the framework.
- 16. Time for a new framework! VS
- 17. Laravel 2.something âą Simple website. âą Great documentation. âą Clean and simple code. âą No users. âą Mystery author.
- 18. Community time! âą Became active in IRC. âą Then: 3 people. Now: ~600. âą Started writing tutorials. âą Tutorials got attention. âą Released Code Happy. âą CodeIgniter users shifting across.
- 19. Involvement (L3) âą Started submitting fixes and features to the pre-release Laravel 3. âą Helped build/design the website for Laravel 3 (and later 4). âą Did lots of visual work for the framework including splash screens. âą Built popular bundles for Laravel 3. âą Help build a welcoming and helpful community.
- 20. Friendship Taylor Otwell (Grand Master Artisan)
- 21. Laravel 3 had itâs flaws. TESTING :( EXTENSIBILITY :â(
- 22. Time for Laravel 4! âą Taylor started work on Laravel 4. âą One of first users when it was built on Silex. âą Feedback loop. âą Exciting new architecture. âą Stable release cycle. âą Powered by Composer (Thanks Jordi!) âą Component-based framework. âą Uses plenty of open source! (Some Symfony, thanks Fabpot!)
- 23. The Promise âą No preaching! âą No moaning about other frameworks. âą Just cool features! âą Intro to IOC / DI.
- 24. Laravel âą Coding should be enjoyable. âą Code can be art. âą Clean and simple syntax. âą Your framework should grow with you. âą A complete platform, end to end. âą Components that solve real problems. âą Embrace open source, and make use of it where possible. âą Give back to open source community where possible. âą A community of friendly Artisans.
- 25. Automatic type-hinted dependency resolution and injection inversion of control container.
- 26. Magic Code Box
- 27. Basic Usage
- 29. Automatic Class Resolution ( From the magic box! )
- 31. Tricking the magic box.
- 32. Letâs do something cool.
- 33. Implementations ( Shameless colour schemes promo.)
- 34. Bind the interface. ( Still have no shame, I mean, just look at the beard.)
- 35. Use our new service. Imagine username here.
- 36. Interchangeable!
- 38. Facades! Resolve the service from the container (magic box) by known key. Forward the method call to the real service instance with parameters.
- 40. Why bind?
- 41. The Magic Box Revisited âą Not just a data store! âą A number of binding methods. âą Automated class resolution. âą Automatic dependency injection. âą Interface binding. âą Service replacement / mocking. âą Extensible framework. âą Facades without the testing problems. âą The heart of the framework! âą illuminate/container ( Not so magic anymore, hopefully! )
- 42. Routes
- 44. Named Routes
- 45. Route Filters ( Defaults: csrf auth auth.basic guest )
- 46. Route Groups
- 47. Database time! ( Drivers: MySQL, PostgresSQL, SQLite, SQL Server )
- 48. Eloquent Models
- 49. Eloquent Models
- 50. Relationships
- 51. Relationships
- 52. Eager Loading
- 53. Queues Drivers: Beanstalkd, IronMQ, Amazon SQS, Redis.
- 54. Queues
- 55. Authentication
- 56. Cache ( Drivers: Database, File, APC, Memcached, XCache, WinCache, Redis, Array, Null )
- 57. Cache
- 58. Events
- 59. Model Events
- 60. Artisan
- 61. Artisan Commands
- 62. Sending Mail ( Drivers: SMTP, Mailgun, Mandrill. )
- 63. Validation ( Because users are wrong⊠always. )
- 64. More! âą Redis Client âą Blade Templating âą Stripe subscription-based billing. âą Log system. âą Custom exception handling. âą Informative debugging. âą Form helpers. âą Localisation. âą Workbench. âą Paginator. âą Session Wrapper. âą Remote SSH component. âą Test helpers. âą Database seeding. âą Route model binding. âą Response casting. âą Environment-based config loader. Loads more! Hands are tired from typing.
- 65. Laravel Forge âą PHP Hosting for Artisans. âą Push to deploy. âą Choose your own cloud. âą Latest web stack. âą HHVM ready. âą Recipes. (stored scripts)
- 66. Homestead âą Ubuntu 14.04 âą PHP 5.6 âą HHVM âą Nginx âą MySQL âą Postgres âą Node (With Bower, Grunt, and Gulp) âą Redis âą Memcached âą Beanstalkd âą Laravel Envoy âą Fabric + HipChat Extension
- 67. What are you waiting for? ( Thanks for listening! Sorry if Iâve got 20 minutes left! ) composer create-project laravel/laravel âą Visit #laravel on Freenode. âą Read Code Bright (come give me your email for a free copy) âą Watch some Laracasts! (Sup Jeff!) âą Visit Laravel.io and listen to the podcast! âą Follow some Laravel guys on twitter. ( @daylerees @taylorotwell @jeffrey_way ) âą Come say bonjour to me!