Download - Intro to Laravel PHP Framework
Introduction to LaravelBill Condo // 2013-01-09
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Lineage
April 2011 by Taylor Otwell
February 2006 by EllisLab
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Comparison
• CodeIgniter: +More Mature, +Legacy PHP Support, -No ORM, -Legacy Support
• Kohana: +ACL, +Benchmarking, -Sparse Docs
• FuelPHP: +Fast, +ACL, +ORM, -Incomplete Docs, -Small Community
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Overview
• MVC Framework with Bundles, Migrations, and Artisan CLI
• Eloquent ORM, Restful Controllers, Class Auto Loading, and Powerful Routing
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Project Structure
• application
• bundles
• laravel
• public
• storage
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Example Controller
Basic Controller
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... And Another
REST Controller
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Example Model
Basic Eloquent Model
all(), find(), where(), count(), save(), delete(), and more auto included.
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Example View
Calling From Controller
Passing in Data
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Example View Cont.
Accessing Data
*Also, View Templating is available with Blade.
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Learning
• Lot’s of videos. Bundled up at... bitly.com/bundles/mavrck/1
• Tutorial Series by Dayle Rees at...daylerees.com/category/laravel-tutorials
• Forums...forums.laravel.io
• IRC...#laravel irc.freenode.net
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Questions?
• @mavrck
• billcondo.com / mavrck.com
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