Laravel? WTF is that?

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Gibson TangFounder of Azukisoft

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What is Laravel?

MVC framework With Dependency Injection Focus on Unit Tests DRY principles

Introduction

Currently at version 5.0 Version 4.2 is still popular 5.1 will be coming soon

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Based on Symfony Symfony has a higher learning curve Laravel has the opposite http://www.sitepoint.com/best-php-framework-2015-sitepoint-survey-results/

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Uses Composer as a package manager Not Pear As Pear sucks You can't have a MVC framework without a package manager, can you?

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In a nutshell, as my friend said it 'It is like Rails for PHP'

This sounds like heresy to all the Rails people here

Well, everyone has their own opinion

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Coming from a CodeIgniter background Laravel makes it easy for you to focus on the business logic

As the other boilerplate stuff is abstracted away

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In the database.php file, you just need to fill in these parameters

'mysql' => array( 'driver' => 'mysql', 'host' => '127.0.0.1', 'database' => 'wordpress', 'port' => '3306', 'username' => 'root', 'password' => 'foobar123', 'charset' => 'utf8', 'collation' => 'utf8_unicode_ci', 'prefix' => '', ),

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Laravel also abstracts away the syntax using ORMs and Query Builders

Has build in protection against SQL injections Eloquent Fluent

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Eloquent ORM $result = Customer::where('name', '=' 'Handsome')->get();

Instead of

Select * from Customer where name = 'Handsome';

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Fluent Query Builder $result = DB::table('customer')->where('id', 4)->get();

Instead of

Select * from Customer where id = 4';

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Database Migration Think of it as git for your database Except without the confusing and fun bits Easy seeding of database tables

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RESTful Controllers (Good for creating RESTful APIs)

Queue management In-house support for Redis Inhouse support for payment APIs using the Laravel Cashier package which interfaces with Stripe

Laravelhttps://github.com/search?l=PHP&q=+stars%3A%3E0&ref=searchresults&type=Repositories

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A lot of resources http://www.Laracasts.com http://www.packalyst.com for Laravel packages

http://laravel-recipes.com/ Among others

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Laravel sounds like the best thing that happened since sliced bread

So what's the downside?

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What's wrong? It's still using PHP Composer can be a memory hog when you run 'composer update'

Can be too heavyweight for some use cases

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No build in admin panel But there is a package for that Not as established as Python/Django or RoR But that means that Laravel has a lot of cool stuff coming it's way

Laravel For a lightweight framework Check out Lumen lumen.laravel.com Created by the same guy aka OMO(One Man Operation) who developed Laravel

It integrates well with Laravel

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Thank you. Any questions?