Laravel: Up & Running: A Framework for Building Modern PHP Apps

Stauffer, Matt

ISBN 10: 1492041211 / ISBN 13: 9781492041214

Published by O'Reilly Media (edition 2), 2019

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Laravel: Up & Running: A Framework for Building Modern PHP Apps
• Publisher: O'Reilly Media (edition 2)
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1492041211
• ISBN 13: 9781492041214
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: 2.
• Condition: Very Good

About this title

Synopsis

What sets Laravel apart from other PHP web frameworks? Speed and simplicity, for starters. This rapid application development framework and its ecosystem of tools let you quickly build new sites and applications with clean, readable code. Fully updated to cover Laravel 5.8, the second edition of this practical guide provides the definitive introduction to one of todayâ??s most popular web frameworks.

Matt Stauffer, a leading teacher and developer in the Laravel community, delivers a high-level overview and concrete examples to help experienced PHP web developers get started with this framework right away. This updated edition also covers Laravel Dusk and Horizon and provides information about community resources and other noncore Laravel packages.

Dive into features, including:

• Blade, Laravelâ??s powerful custom templating tool
• Tools for gathering, validating, normalizing, and filtering user-provided data
• The Eloquent ORM for working with application databases
• The role of the Illuminate request object in the application lifecycle
• PHPUnit, Mockery, and Dusk for testing your PHP code
• Tools for writing JSON and RESTful APIs
• Interfaces for filesystem access, sessions, cookies, caches, and search
• Tools for implementing queues, jobs, events, and WebSocket event publishing

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.