Laravel 5.x Cookbook

Table of Contents

Laravel 5.x Cookbook

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewer

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Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Sections

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

There's more…

See also

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Downloading the example code

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. Setting Up and Installing Laravel

Introduction

Setting up Homestead

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Setting composer and PHP on your local machine for faster Workflows

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Setting up your first application in Homestead

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

Using .env for your local build

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

Using sequel pro and connecting to local and remote databases

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

Setting up Gulp and Elixir

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

2. Using Composer Packages

Introduction

Working with Composer install command and avoiding Composer update

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Making a provider

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

Using the Facade pattern

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

Using private packages

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

3. Routing

Introduction

Building an API / JSON based route for searching

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works…

See also

Testing your route in PHPUnit

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

See also

Building a view based route

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

Testing your view based route in PHPUnit

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

See also

Creating named routes

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

See also

4. Building Views and Adding Style

Introduction

Organizing your Blade files

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

Installing a WrapBootStrap theme

Getting Started

How to do it…

How it works…

See also

Making your authentication pages

How to do it…

How it works…

Implementing an error message template

Getting started…

How to do it…

How it works…

Building your main search page

Getting started…

How to do it…

How it works…

See also

Adding a static page

Getting started…

How to do it…

How it works…

5. Working with Data

Introduction

Setting up users and running migrations

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

Altering a migration

Getting ready

How to do it....

How it works…

See also

Using factories for migrations and tests

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

See also

Using a generator to scaffold your user wishlist area

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

See also

Seeding so you can see how your app looks

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

See also

Adding a file upload to user profile

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

See also

Validating the file upload

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

See also

Saving files to S3

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

See also

6. Adding Angular to Your App

Introduction

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

Adding Angular search to our search page

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

See also

Handling Angular and Ajax requests

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

See also

Paginating our Angular results

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

See also

Testing an Angular page with Behat

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works…

See also

Creating a relationship with favorites

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

See also

Building a favorites Ajax widget in Angular

Getting ready

How it works…

How to do it…

See also

Validating incoming input

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

See also

Using the CORS protection

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

See also

Using Elixir and Gulp to set up Angular

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

7. Authentication, Security, and Subscriptions

Introduction

Using policies and guard to protect user pages

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

Adding feature flags to hide features from users

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

See also

Implementing Socialite to allow users to login with Facebook

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

See also

Adding custom middleware to protect user admin area

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

See also

Using Laravel to set up a subscription site

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

See also

Creating an interface for the user to manage subscriptions

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

Creating an admin interface for subscriptions

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

8. Testing and Debugging Your Application

Introduction

Generating tests

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Using tests to think through your code TDT (Test Driven Thinking)

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

Getting your code onto GitHub

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

Using VCR for API testing

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

Using Travis to run tests with every push

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

Launching Gulp watch into your workflow

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

Using mockery to test your controllers

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works…

See also

Troubleshooting your application

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

9. Adding Advanced Features to Your App

Introduction

Building an Artisan command

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

Creating scheduler to notify users of new comics

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

See also

Setting up e-mail notices

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

See also

Adding clean URLS for the users profile page

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

See also

Using pusher for live notifications

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

See also

Adding a blog area to update users on new features

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

See also

10. Deploying Your App

Introduction

Setting up Forge, AWS, and CodeDeploy

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works…

See also

Setting up Travis to auto deploy when all is passing

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

See also

Working with your .env file

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

See also

Testing your app on Production with Behat

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

See also

Making a composer package out of our client

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

Index

Laravel 5.x Cookbook

Laravel 5.x Cookbook

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Credits

Author

Alfred Nutile

Reviewer

Andrew Cavanagh

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About the Author

Alfred Nutile is an Enterprise Architect and Laravel lead based in Western Massachusetts. He's been working in the industry since the mid 90's. He started in PHP and MySQL back around that time and has worked with Ruby on Rails, Drupal, and Angular along the way. He introduced Laravel into an enterprise web stack, where he is currently contracted at, as Laravel proved itself as an amazing framework to build API's and Angular heavy application.

You can read more about him and checkout his blog at http://www.alfrednutile.info/ or follow him on Twitter at https://twitter.com/alnutile

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First let me say thanks to Taylor Otwell, I moved away from PHP to Rails and really was missing PHP only to be pointed to Laravel and have not looked back since. The framework makes my day to day work a pleasure and sometimes I feel guilty how easy it has made getting work done.

And Jeffrey Way for offering an amazing service that helped me to grow in understanding practical programming skills, keeping things simple, best practices and Laravel.

Of course I would like to thank Andrew Cavanagh for taking time to tediously edit this book. We have worked in the industry together for a number of years and currently both working on Laravel daily. And then there is my family who keeps me from getting too out of balanced since it is so easy to lose myself in the joy of building things on the computer!

About the Reviewer

Andrew Cavanagh is an experienced PHP developer whose background includes Drupal, Laravel, AngularJS, managing *nix servers (Apache and Nginx), project/budget/team management, and general haberdashy. He's currently focused on building enterprise web applications and tools. Andrew also enjoy cooking, amateur mycology, brewing, and long walks in imaginary places.

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Preface

Laravel is a prominent member of a new generation of web frameworks. It is one of the most popular PHP frameworks and is also free and an open source. Laravel 5 is a substantial upgrade with a lot of new and more efficient workflows, at the same time retaining the features that made Laravel wildly successful. It comes with plenty of architectural as well as design-based changes.

The book is a blend of numerous recipes that will give you all the necessary tips you need to build an application. It starts with basic installation and configuration tasks and will get you up-and-running in no time. You will learn to create and customize your PHP app and tweak and re-design your existing apps for better performance. You will learn to implement practical recipes to utilize Laravel's modular structure, the latest method injection, route caching, and interfacing techniques to create responsive modern-day PHP apps that stand on their own against other apps. Efficient testing and deploying techniques will make you more confident with your Laravel skills as you move ahead with this book.

Towards the end of the book, you will understand a number of add-ons and new features essential to finalize your application to make it ready for subscriptions. You will be empowered to get your application out to the world.

What this book covers

Chapter 1, Setting Up and Installing Laravel, helps you setup Laravel on your local machine.

Chapter 2, Using Composer Packages, this will cover some key concepts to getting comfortable with this amazing tool.

Chapter 3, Routing, the heart of any web framework, this will dig into some use cases of Laravel routing.

Chapter 4, Building Views and Adding Style, digging into Blade, Bootstrap and other key areas to building an app.

Chapter 5, Working with Data, covers factories, seeding and a look at a scaffolding library to save you work.

Chapter 6, Adding Angular to Your App, all the key concepts to getting going with Angular in your application.

Chapter 7, Authentication, Security, and Subscriptions, covers protecting your application, building a subscription service, and an admin interface.

Chapter 8, Testing and Debugging Your Application, shows you how to think about your code using tests, having TravisCI run your tests on every push to Github, and more.

Chapter 9, Adding Advanced Features to Your App, teaches you about building Artisan commands, Scheduler, Clean URLs and more.

Chapter 10, Deploying Your App, this chapter will dig into CodeDeploy, Forge, TravisCI and other recipes to deploy your application.

What you need for this book

The entire list of this and the installation process has been explained in Chapter 1 of the Book.

Who this book is for

The ideal target audience for this book is PHP developers who have some basic PHP programming knowledge. No previous experience with Laravel is required for this book.

Sections

In this book, you will find several headings that appear frequently (Getting ready, How to do it, How it works, There's more, and See also).

To give clear instructions on how to complete a recipe, we use these sections as follows:

Getting ready

This section tells you what to expect in the recipe, and describes how to set up any software or any preliminary settings required for the recipe.

How to do it…

This section contains the steps required to follow the recipe.

How it works…

This section usually consists of a detailed explanation of what happened in the previous section.

There's more…

This section consists of additional information about the recipe in order to make the reader more knowledgeable about the recipe.

See also

This section provides helpful links to other useful information for the recipe.

Conventions

In this book, you will find a number of text styles that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles and an explanation of their meaning.

Code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles