Laravel 5 New FeaturesJoe Ferguson

Before we begin

Have Virtualbox (virtualbox.org) Installed

Have VirtualBox Extension Pack Installed

Have Vagrant (vagrantup.com) Installed

run: vagrant box add laravel/homestead

New Directory Structure

Laravel 5 DirectoryApp directory now "Your Application" / "Entry point to app”

Laravel 4 Artisan Commands -> Console in App folder

Web stuff in Http

Controllers all have name space

filters.php -> Broken out into separate classes/files.

More focus on Service Providers -> Filter Service Providers

No more global.php -> Use service providers

Removed models directory. Can be just in app folder. PSR-4 default

Don't like the app namespace? artisan app:name MyApplication

Blade Changes

Laravel 4 uses {{ to echo and {{{ To echo escaped

Laravel 5 {{ and {{{ will echo escaped and {!! is used to echo raw

Biggest impact is likely form helpers: {!! Form::open() !!}

Commands

Commands (app/Commands) - Message containing only info needed to do something

Command Handler (app/Handlers/Commands) - Class that does something in response to a command

Command Bus - Allows dispatch of commands, matches commands to handlers

Self handling commands just need a handle() method on the command & implements SelfHandling

Events

Events (app/Events)

Events have handlers (similar to Commands)

Bind Events via app\Providers\EventServiceProvider.php

Events inform the system something happened VS demanding action from the system

Form RequestsSpecial class for validating and authorizing form submissions

Each class has rules() (returns array) and authorize() (returns boolean) methods

Benefit of rules & authorize being methods is you can perform logic

Type Hinting your forms to the Form Request will automatically validate your forms

If validation fails, errors will be available to the view and redirected back.

This happens because the FormRequestServiceProvider listens for anything being resolved is instance of FormRequest and calls the validate method.

Helpers

view() - Get a View instance for the given view path

action() - Generate a URL for a given controller action

app_path() - Get the fully qualified path to the app directory

asset() - Generate a URL for an asset.

Routing – get(), delete(), put()

Route Caching

artisan route:cache

Serializes your routes.php

Benefits: Faster routing

Drawback: Must run artisan route:clear on every routes.php change

MiddlewareImplements decorator pattern. request -> does work -> returns object to next layer

Laravel uses middleware for Encrypting/Decrypting cookies, Reading/Writing Sessions

artisan make:middleware MyMiddleware (app/Http/Middleware)

Middleware registered in app/Http/Kernel.php

Can run before or after the request has been processed.

Easiest example would be auth

Controller Method Injection

Can inject dependencies into methods, no longer via constructor

Purpose is to help developers write cleaner code

Changes to Illuminate Packages

Form or HTML helpers no longer in Core, must be pulled in via composer.

add "laravelcollective/html": "~5.0" to composer

update config/app.php

Elixir

API for defining basic Gulp tasks for your app.

Requires nodejs

Put your sass/less files in resources/assets/sass|less

Can trigger sass/less/phpunit/phpspec, combine stylesheets

Socialite

Easy to use social logins with oauth

Supports Facebook, Twitter, Google, Github, and Bitbucket

Contracts

Set of interfaces that define the core services provided by the framework

Depend on abstractions, not concrete dependencies.

Write code that doesn't have to be aware of the laravel framework

Upgrade from 4.2 to 5Fresh install Laravel 5

Update Dependencies /Packages

Namespace (somewhat optional for now)

Migrate environment variables

Move routes to app/Http/routes.php

Move controllers to app/Http/Controllers (add this to classmap)

Copy route bindings to boot() in app/Providers/RouteServiceProvider.php

Add route facade to RouteServiceProvider.php to continue using Route facade

CSRF is now global. Use middleware to disable if needed

Move models to app/Models. Add app/Models to classmap in composer.json

Update your user auth to use Laravel 5’s auth system

Move commands to app/Console/Commands. Add app/Console/Commands to classmap in composer.json

Move migrations to database/migrations, Database Seeds to database/seeds

… and more!

Upgrade from 4.2 to 5

http://lar

avel.com

/docs/5.0

/upgrade

Fresh install Laravel 5

Update Dependencies /Packages

Namespace (somewhat optional for now)

Migrate environment variables

Move routes to app/Http/routes.php

Move controllers to app/Http/Controllers (add this to classmap)

Copy route bindings to boot() in app/Providers/RouteServiceProvider.php

Add route facade to RouteServiceProvider.php to continue using Route facade

CSRF is now global. Use middleware to disable if needed

Move models to app/Models. Add app/Models to classmap in composer.json

Update your user auth to use Laravel 5’s auth system

Move commands to app/Console/Commands. Add app/Console/Commands to classmap in composer.json

Move migrations to database/migrations, Database Seeds to database/seeds

… and more!

Homestead“Laravel Homestead is an official, pre-packaged

Vagrant "box" that provides you a wonderful development environment without requiring you

to install PHP, HHVM, a web server, and any other server software on your local machine. No more worrying about messing up your operating

system! Vagrant boxes are completely disposable. If something goes wrong, you can destroy and re-

create the box in minutes!”

What’s in the box:• Ubuntu 14.04• PHP 5.6• HHVM• Nginx• MySQL• Postgres• Redis

• NodeJS• Bower• Grunt• Gulp• Beanstalkd• Memcached• Laravel Envoy

Fabric + HipChat Extension + more!

Getting Homestead

Install the box:vagrant box add laravel/homestead

Getting Homestead

If you have PHP installed locally:composer global require "laravel/homestead=~2.0"

Make sure to place the ~/.composer/vendor/bin directory in your PATH so the homestead executable is found when you run the

homestead command in your terminal.

Homestead 2.0

Significant change over previous 1.x versions

Uses homestead from your home folder

Less vagrant stuff in your projects (if you don’t like that sort of thing)

How I use Homestead

https://github.com/svpernova09/HomesteadSkeleton

Drop in Homestead files to project

Each project has an isolated vagrant environment

Easier to share dev environment settings