Laravel: Code Happy
Laravel: Code Happy
Application development with the Laravel PHP Framework for beginners.
About the Book
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The book is a guide to Laravel aimed at beginners to the framework who already have some PHP experience. It is structured in the form of guides to core features and stand-alone tutorials. It was written by a core developer of the Laravel framework, and has the support of the framework author.
Please note that this is a publish in progress title, extra chapters may be added at a later date and it will be updated to support future versions of Laravel 3.x for free.
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Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Errata
- Feedback
- Introduction
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1. Getting Started
- 1.1 Method 1 Create a new VirtualHost
- 1.2 Method 2 Symbolic link the public directory.
- 1.3 Getting back on track..
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2. Project Structure
- 2.1 Root Directory Structure
- 2.2 Application Directory Structure
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3. Using Controllers
- 3.1 Routing Controllers
- 3.2 Passing Parameters
- 3.3 Using Views
- 3.4 RESTful Controllers
- 3.5 The Base_Controller
- 3.6 Advanced Routing
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4. Routes With Closures
- 4.1 Closures
- 4.2 Redirects and Named Routes
- 4.3 Filters
- 4.4 Route Groups
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5. Links and URLs
- 5.1 Retrieving URLs
- 5.2 Generating Links
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6. Forms
- 6.1 Creating Forms
- 6.2 Adding Labels
- 6.3 Generating Inputs
- 6.4 Generating Buttons
- 6.5 Secret Inputs
- 6.6 CSRF Token
- 6.7 Form Macros
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7. Handling Input
- 7.1 Request data
- 7.2 Files
- 7.3 Flash Data
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8. Validation
- 8.1 Set up validation
- 8.2 Errors
- 8.3 Validation Rules
- 8.4 Custom Error Messages
- 8.5 Custom Validation Rules
- 8.6 Validation Classes
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9. Migrations
- 9.1 Database Setup
- 9.2 Migrations
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10. Fluent Query Builder
- 10.1 Retrieving Results
- 10.2 Where Clauses
- 10.3 Table Joins
- 10.4 Ordering
- 10.5 Limiting.. no Taking
- 10.6 Skipping Results
- 10.7 Aggregates
- 10.8 Expressions
- 10.9 ++ (or decrementing)
- 10.10 Insert
- 10.11 Update
- 10.12 Delete
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11. Eloquent ORM
- 11.1 Creating and using Eloquent Models
- 11.2 Relationships
- 11.3 Inserting Related Models
- 11.4 Pivot Tables
- 11.5 Eager Loading
- 11.6 Setters and Getters
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12. Events
- 12.1 Fire An Event
- 12.2 Listen for an Event
- 12.3 Events With Parameters
- 12.4 Laravel Events
- 12.5 Example Usage
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13. Blade Templates
- 13.1 The Basics
- 13.2 Logic
- 13.3 Blade Layouts
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14. Authentication
- 14.1 Setup
- 14.2 Setting up the form
- 14.3 Handling Login
- 14.4 Protecting Routes
- 14.5 Customisation
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15. The Blog Tutorial
- 15.1 The Design
- 15.2 Basic Setup
- 15.3 Eloquent Models
- 15.4 Routes
- 15.5 Views
- 15.6 Get Coding
- 15.7 The Future
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16. Unit Testing
- 16.1 Installation
- 16.2 Creating a Test
- 16.3 Running Tests
- 16.4 Testing The Core
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17. Caching
- 17.1 Setup
- 17.2 Setting values
- 17.3 Retrieving Values
- 17.4 A better way
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18. Autoloading Classes
- 18.1 Mappings
- 18.2 Directory Mapping
- 18.3 Namespace Mapping
- 18.4 Mapping Underscores
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19. Configuration
- 19.1 Creating new Configuration Files
- 19.2 Reading Configuration
- 19.3 Setting Configuration
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20. The IoC Container
- 20.1 Registering Objects
- 20.2 Resolving Objects
- 20.3 Singletons
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21. Encryption
- 21.1 One Way Encryption
- 21.2 Two Way Encryption
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22. AJAX Content
- 22.1 Page Template
- 22.2 The Javascript
- 22.3 Post Data
- 22.4 JSON Responses
- 22.5 Detecting an AJAX Request
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23. Debugging Applications
- 23.1 Error Handler
- 23.2 Error Configuration
- 23.3 Logging
- 24. The Future
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