Laravel application development cookbook / Terry Matula.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Matula, Terry.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Application software--Development.

Application software.

Web applications.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (272 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Birmingham : Packt Publishing, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Biography/History:

Matula Terry: Terry Matula is a web developer and Laravel advocate based in Austin, TX. He's been a passionate computer enthusiast since he first played Oregon Trail on an Apple//e. He started programming in BASIC at a young age, making simple Scott Adams-like games on a Commodore Vic-20. Since then, he's worked as a developer using Flash/ActionScript, ASP. NET, PHP, and numerous PHP frameworks, with Laravel being his favorite by far. He blogs web development tips and tricks at his website http: //terrymatula. com

Summary:

Get to grips with a new technology, understand what it is and what it can do for you, and then get to work with the most important features and tasks.A short and precise guide to get you started with EaselJS , helping you to create some cool applications and games.EaselJS greatly simplifies application development in HTML5 Canvas using a syntax and an architecture very similar to the ActionScript 3.0 language. As a result, Flash / Flex developers will immediately feel at home but it’s very easy to learn even if you've never opened Flash in your life. The book targets Web designers, animators, Digital content producers, and Flash and Flex developers.

Contents:

Intro

Laravel Application Development Cookbook

Table of Contents

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

www.PacktPub.com

Support files, eBooks, discount offers and more

Why Subscribe?

Free Access for Packt account holders

Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Downloading the example code

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. Setting Up and Installing Laravel

Introduction

Installing Laravel as a git submodule

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Setting up a virtual host and development environment in Apache

Creating "clean" URLs

Configuring Laravel

Using Laravel with Sublime Text 2

Setting up your IDE to autocomplete Laravel's namespaces

Using Autoloader to map a class name to its file

See also

Creating advanced Autoloaders with namespaces and directories

2. Using Forms and Gathering Input

Creating a simple form

Gathering form input to display on another page

Validating user input

How to do it.

How it works...

Creating a file uploader

Validating a file upload

Creating a custom error message

Adding a honey pot to a form

Uploading an image using Redactor

Cropping an image with Jcrop

Creating an autocomplete text input

Making a CAPTCHA-style spam catcher

3. Authenticating Your Application

Setting up and configuring the Auth library

Creating an authentication system

Retrieving and updating user info after logging in

Restricting access to certain pages

Setting up OAuth with the HybridAuth package

Using OpenID for logins

Logging in using Facebook credentials

Logging in using Twitter credentials

Logging in using LinkedIn

4. Storing and Using Data

Creating data tables using migrations and schemas

There's more…

Querying using raw SQL statements

Querying using Fluent

Querying using Eloquent ORM

Using automatic validation in models

Using advanced Eloquent and relationships

Creating a CRUD system

Importing a CSV using Eloquent

Using RSS as a data source

Using attributes to change table column names

Using a non-Eloquent ORM in Laravel

5. Using Controllers and Routes for URLs and APIs

Creating a basic controller

Creating a route using a closure

Creating a RESTful controller

Using advanced routing

How to do it…

Using a filter on the route

Using route groups

Building a RESTful API with routes.

Getting ready

Using named routes

Using a subdomain in your route

6. Displaying Your Views

Creating and using a basic view

Passing data into a view

Loading a view into another view/nested views

Adding assets

Creating a view using Blade

Using TWIG templates

Utilizing advanced Blade usage

Creating localization of content

Creating menus in Laravel

Integrating with Bootstrap

Using named views and view composers

7. Creating and Using Composer Packages

Downloading and installing packages

Using the Generators package to set up an app

Creating a Composer package in Laravel

Adding your Composer package to Packagist

Adding a non-Packagist package to Composer

Getting ready.

How to do it...

Creating a custom artisan command

8. Using Ajax and jQuery

Getting data from another page

Setting up a controller to return JSON data

Creating an Ajax search function

Creating and validating a user using Ajax

Filtering data based on checkbox selection

Making an Ajax newsletter sign-up box

Sending an e-mail using Laravel and jQuery

Creating a sortable table using jQuery and Laravel

9. Using Security and Sessions Effectively

Encrypting and decrypting data

Hashing passwords and other data

Using CSRF tokens and filters in forms

Using advanced validation in forms

Building a shopping cart

Using Redis to save sessions

Using basic sessions and cookies

Creating a secure API server

How to do it.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed December 2, 2013).

ISBN:

9781782162834

1782162836

OCLC:

862384267