Laravel up and running : a framework for building modern PHP apps / Matt Stauffer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stauffer, Matt, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

PHP (Computer program language).

Web applications.

Application software.

Laravel (Software framework).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (562 p.)

Edition:

Third edition.

Place of Publication:

Sebastopol : O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2023.

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 include Laravel 10, the third edition of this practical guide provides the definitive introduction to one of today'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 covers the entirely new auth and frontend tooling and other first-party tools introduced since the second edition. Dive into features, including: Blade, Laravel's powerful custom templating tool Tools for gathering, validating, normalizing, and filtering user-provided data The Eloquent ORM for working with application databases The Illuminate request object and its role 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 Specialty packages including Scout, Passport, Cashier, and more.

Contents:

Intro

Table of Contents

Preface

What This Book Is About

Who This Book Is For

How This Book Is Structured

About the Third Edition

Conventions Used in This Book

O'Reilly Online Learning

How to Contact Us

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1. Why Laravel?

Why Use a Framework?

"I'll Just Build It Myself"

Consistency and Flexibility

A Short History of Web and PHP Frameworks

Ruby on Rails

The Influx of PHP Frameworks

The Good and the Bad of CodeIgniter

Laravel 1, 2, and 3

Laravel 4

Laravel 5

Laravel 6

Laravel Versions in the New SemVer World (6+)

What's So Special About Laravel?

The Philosophy of Laravel

How Laravel Achieves Developer Happiness

The Laravel Community

How It Works

Why Laravel?

Chapter 2. Setting Up a Laravel Development Environment

System Requirements

Composer

Local Development Environments

Artisan Serve

Laravel Sail

Laravel Valet

Laravel Herd

Laravel Homestead

Creating a New Laravel Project

Installing Laravel with the Laravel Installer Tool

Installing Laravel with Composer's create-project Feature

Installing Laravel with Sail

Laravel's Directory Structure

The Folders

The Loose Files

Configuration

The .env File

Up and Running

Testing

TL

DR

Chapter 3. Routing and Controllers

A Quick Introduction to MVC, the HTTP Verbs, and REST

What Is MVC?

The HTTP Verbs

What Is REST?

Route Definitions

Route Verbs

Route Handling

Route Parameters

Route Names

Route Groups

Middleware

Path Prefixes

Subdomain Routing

Name Prefixes

Route Group Controllers

Fallback Routes

Signed Routes

Signing a Route

Modifying Routes to Allow Signed Links

Views

Returning Simple Routes Directly with Route::view()

Using View Composers to Share Variables with Every View

Controllers

Getting User Input

Injecting Dependencies into Controllers

Resource Controllers

API Resource Controllers

Single Action Controllers

Route Model Binding

Implicit Route Model Binding

Custom Route Model Binding

Route Caching

Form Method Spoofing

HTTP Verbs in Laravel

HTTP Method Spoofing in HTML Forms

CSRF Protection

Redirects

redirect()->to()

redirect()->route()

Redirect()->back()

Other Redirect Methods

redirect()->with()

Aborting the Request

Custom Responses

response()->make()

response()->json() and ->jsonp()

response()->download(), ->streamDownload(), and ->file()

Chapter 4. Blade Templating

Echoing Data

Control Structures

Conditionals

Loops

Template Inheritance

Defining Sections with @section/@show and @yield

Including View Partials

Using Components

Using Stacks

View Composers and Service Injection

Binding Data to Views Using View Composers

Blade Service Injection

Notes:

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Custom Blade Directives

ISBN:

9781098153250

1098153251

OCLC:

1397571519