Laravel
Brian Retterer
@bretterer
IRC: lamarus
bretterer@gmail.com
http://brianretterer.com/
Many Frameworks
The PHP Framework
For Web Artisans
What is Laravel?
Laravel is a web application framework with expressive, elegant syntax. Laravel believes development must be an enjoyable, creative experience to be truly fulfilling.
Created by Taylor Otwell in 2011, we are now on Laravel 4 which was released May of this year.
What does Laravel Have?
RESTful Routing
Blade Templating
Testing
Composer
Great Community
Eloquent ORM
Migrations
... AND MORE!
Composer Support
Larevel was built with composer in mind. In fact, composer
is how you install it.
Composer Packages
There are many composer packages that can be installed.
Just take a look at packagist.org
After putting them in your composer.json file,
it is as easy as running the following.
Artisan
The best part of Laravel IMHO, is Artisan
Artisan is a command line tool that allows
you to do a lot of setup and file creation
Simply run 'php artisan' from the root of your
project and you will get the information
RESTful Routing
Basic Get Route
Basic Post Route
RESTful Routing - Filters
Adding a filter to a route is easy.
You can set it to run before or after the route is hit.
RESTful Routing - Groups
Group Routing allows you to set up a group of routes.
This is useful for things like admin pages.
All routes are /admin/*
All routes are /admin/*
RESTful Routing - Subdomain
Along the same lines of groups for admin, You
can set up subdomain routing.
Blade
Blade is a simple, yet powerful templating engine
provided with Laravel.
Using A Layout
Defining A Layout
Testing
Laravel is built with unit testing in mind.
It supports testing with PHPUnit which is included on install.
A phpunit.xml file is already set up for your application.
There are also other packages that integrate with
testing in Laravel.
Migrations
Have you ever wanted version control on your database?
Now with Laravel you can.
Eloquent ORM
Object Relation Model has made it very easy for making
database queries
Create a new entry
Eloquent ORM
Update an entry
Delete an entry
Eloquent ORM
Soft Deletes
Queries to get with/without trashed
Community
Laravel has a great community. We have many different
resources that you can use to get help and guidance
#laravel
Thank You!
Brian Retterer
bretterer@gmail.com
@bretterer
IRC: lamarus
http://laravel.com
http://brianretterer.com
Laravel
By Brian Retterer
