Laravel: Up and Running: A Framework for Building Modern PHP Apps

What sets Laravel apart from other PHP web frameworks? Speed and simplicity, for starters. This rapid application development framework and its vast ecosystem of tools let you quickly build new sites and applications with clean, readable code. With this practical guide, Matt Stauffer–a leading teacher and developer in the Laravel community–provides the definitive introduction to one of today’s most popular web frameworks.

The book’s high-level overview and concrete examples will help experienced PHP web developers get started with Laravel right away. By the time you reach the last page, you should feel comfortable writing an entire application in Laravel from scratch.
Dive into several features of this framework, including:

• Blade, Laravel’s powerful, custom templating tool
• Tools for gathering, validating, normalizing, and filtering user-provided data
• Laravel’s Eloquent ORM for working with the application’s databases
• The Illuminate request object, and its role in the application lifecycle
• PHPUnit, Mockery, and PHPSpec for testing your PHP code
• Laravel’s tools for writing JSON and RESTful APIs
• Interfaces for file system access, sessions, cookies, caches, and search
• Tools for implementing queues, jobs, events, and WebSocket event publishing
• Laravel’s specialty packages: Scout, Passport, Cashier, Echo, Elixir, Valet, and Socialite

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Why Laravel?
Chapter 2. Setting Up a Laravel Development Environment
Chapter 3. Routing and Controllers
Chapter 4. Blade Templating
Chapter 5. Frontend Components
Chapter 6. Collecting and Handling User Data
Chapter 7. Artisan and Tinker
Chapter 8. Database and Eloquent
Chapter 9. User Authentication and Authorization
Chapter 10. Requests and Responses
Chapter 11. The Container
Chapter 12. Testing
Chapter 13. Writing APIs
Chapter 14. Storage and Retrieval
Chapter 15. Mail and Notifications
Chapter 16. Queues, Jobs, Events, Broadcasting, and the Scheduler
Chapter 17. Helpers and Collections