Introduction to the Laravel PHP Framework. Where it came from, what an install looks like, and comparisons to a few other frameworks.

1. Introduction to Laravel
Bill Condo // 2013-01-09
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2. Lineage
February 2006 by EllisLab
April 2011 by Taylor Otwell
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3. Comparison
• CodeIgniter: +More Mature, +Legacy
PHP Support, -No ORM, -Legacy Support
• Kohana: +ACL, +Benchmarking,
-Sparse Docs
• FuelPHP: +Fast, +ACL, +ORM,
-Incomplete Docs, -Small Community
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4. Overview
• MVC Framework with Bundles,
Migrations, and Artisan CLI
• Eloquent ORM, Restful Controllers,
Class Auto Loading, and Powerful
Routing
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5. Project Structure
• application
• bundles
• laravel
• public
• storage
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6. Example Controller
Basic Controller
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7. ... And Another
REST Controller
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8. Example Model
Basic Eloquent Model
all(), find(), where(), count(), save(), delete(), and more auto included.
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9. Example View
Calling From Controller
Passing in Data
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10. Example View Cont.
Accessing Data
*Also,View Templating is available with Blade.
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11. Learning
• Lot’s of videos. Bundled up at...
bitly.com/bundles/mavrck/1
• Tutorial Series by Dayle Rees at...
daylerees.com/category/laravel-tutorials
• Forums...
forums.laravel.io
• IRC... irc.freenode.net
#laravel
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12. Questions?
• billcondo@gmail.com
• @mavrck
• billcondo.com / mavrck.com
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