Laravel Up and Running a Framework for Building Modern PHP Apps

Stauffer, Matt

Laravel Up and Running a Framework for Building Modern PHP Apps - 2nd - Beijing : O'Reilly c2019 - xxii, 529 p. : ill

Includes Bibliographical References and Index

SUMMARY

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

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Laravel Software Framework
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