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

Stauffer, Matt

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1491936088 ISBN 13: 9781491936085

Publisher: O'Reilly Media, 2016

Synopsis

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 Stauffer--a leading teacher and developer in the Laravel community--provides the definitive introduction to one of today's most popular web frameworks.

The book's 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, Laravel's powerful, custom templating tool
• Tools for gathering, validating, normalizing, and filtering user-provided data
• Laravel's Eloquent ORM for working with the application's databases
• The Illuminate request object, and its role in the application lifecycle
• PHPUnit, Mockery, and PHPSpec for testing your PHP code
• Laravel's 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
• Laravel's specialty packages: Scout, Passport, Cashier, Echo, Elixir, Valet, and Socialite

About this title

About the Author

Matt Stauffer is a developer and a teacher. He is a partner and technical director at Tighten Co., blogs at mattstauffer.co, and hosts The Five-Minute Geek Show and the Laravel Podcast.

Review

"Not only is Matt one of the most knowledgable members of the Laravel community, he is also a fantastic teacher. I'm proud to recommend this book as a thorough, extensive guide to the Laravel framework." -Taylor Otwell, creator of Laravel

"As a self-diagnosed evangelist for Laravel, I'm thankful to finally have a book that I can point newcomers to. Even better, I can think of no one more qualified to introduce this wonderful framework to the masses than Matt." -Jeffrey Way, creator of Laracasts

Edition details

• Publisher: O'Reilly Media
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1491936088
• ISBN 13: 9781491936085
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 454