Laravel Framework

By: Jaimin Gohel

About Speaker

• MCA(GLSICT)
• Laravel Developer @ QlooIt Solutions
• Moziilian
• Love Open Source Technologies

Career Advice

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PHP

Statistics about php

• Most popular open source server side scripting language. Almost 82% of the web 2.0 is built with php.

• There are about 5 million PHP developers worldwide.

• Some of the biggest on-line brands  such as Facebook, Flickr, wordpress, and Yahoo! are powered by PHP.

PHP Framework

• PHP framework is a library that makes the life of site developer easier by for example hiding some complexities of HTTP protocol or by adding some useful functions.

• Have some built in functions for obvious tasks like authentication, routing, sessions, and caching.

• example: wordpress, joomla, magento, laravel.

Why we need a framework?

Laravel Philosophy

• Laravel is a web application framework with expressive, elegant syntax.

• We believe development must be an enjoyable, creative experience to be truly fulfilling.

• Laravel attempts to take the pain out of development by easing common tasks used in the majority of web projects, such as authentication, routing, sessions, and caching.
• Happy developers make the best code.

Advantages of Laravel

• Excellent  Documentation

• Laracasts
• Intuitive Syntax

$users = User::paginate(5);

• Artisan Code Generation

                          php artisan make:controller   SampleController

• Out-of-the-box User Model
• Blade Templating Engine
• Security

Security in laravel

• bcrypt hased passwords(one way encryption)         

• Prepared statements for sql, which prevents sql injection

• <script> tag is filtered by default, which prevents  from xss

• CSRF Protection                                                                  

Install Laravel

Server Requirement

The Laravel framework has a few system requirements:

• PHP >= 5.4, PHP < 7
• Mcrypt PHP Extension
• OpenSSL PHP Extension
• Mbstring PHP Extension
• Tokenizer PHP Extension

Composer

• Composer is dependency manager for your php application.

• It manages(install/update) the libraries of your project

• find composer at http://getcomposer.org                      

• Create a laravel project with composer                        

Composer (cont.)

• Composer create-project laravel/laravel makerparty “5.0.*” –prefer-dist

• Create virtual host entry                                                  

1.0 Introduction to routing, controller and views

2.0  Passing Data to Views

3.0 Little more about Blade

4.0  Environments and Configuration

5.0 Migrations

6.0 Eloquent

7.0 Basic Model-Controller-View Workflow

8.0 Forms