Laravel 5.1 Beauty
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Completed on 2015-07-16
About the Book
Let's keep this short and simple ...
Laravel 5 is an amazing PHP Framework. This book goes through the process of designing, creating and coding a real-world application using Laravel.
The application built is a blog. Check out http://laravelcoding.com for a preview.
While building the Laravel 5 Beauty blog, you'll learn about:
- Installing Laravel 5
- Using Homestead
- Using Elixir
- Database Migrations and Seeding
- Eloquent Models and Pagination
- Form Requests
- Views (Blade templates)
- Authentication
- And much, much more!
About the Author
Table of Contents
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Thank You
- The Source Code is on GitHub
- Feedback
- Other places to learn Laravel 5.1
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Chapter 1 - Introduction
- Chapter Contents
- Long Term Support
- Why This Book
- GitHub and the Blog
- What is the Application?
- Conventions Used This Book
- Have Fun
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Chapter 2 - Required Software and Components
- Chapter Contents
- The Rise of the Virtual Machines
- About Laravel Homestead
- Installing Virtual Box
- Installing Vagrant
- Where Do I Execute Things?
- Recap
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Chapter 3 - Setting up a Windows Machine
- Chapter Contents
- Multiple Ways to Setup Windows
- Step 1 - Installing PHP Natively
- Step 2 - Install Node.js
- Step 3 - Install Composer
- Step 4 - Install GIT and set up SSH Key
- Step 5 - Adding the Homestead box
- Step 6. Installing Homestead
- Step 7 - Bring up the Homestead VM
- Step 8 - Setting up PuTTY
- Step 9 - Installing Laravel’s Installer
- Recap
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Chapter 4 - Setting up an OS X or Linux Machine
- Chapter Contents
- Slight Variations with Linux
- Step 1 - Installing PHP
- Step 2 - Install Node.js
- Step 3 - Install Gulp
- Step 4 - Install Composer
- Step 5 - Adding SSH Keys
- Step 6 - Adding the Homestead box
- Step 7 - Installing Homestead
- Step 8 - Bring up the Homestead VM
- Step 9 - Installing the Laravel Installer
- Recap
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Chapter 5 - Homestead and Laravel Installer
- Chapter Contents
- The Homestead Tool
- Overview of Common Homestead Commands
- Examining Homestead.yaml
- Adding Software to the Homestead VM
- Daily Workflow
- Six Steps to Starting a New Laravel 5.1 Project
- Other Homestead Tips
- Recap
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Chapter 6 - Testing
- Chapter Contents
- Creating the l5beauty Project
- Running PHPUnit
- Using Gulp for TDD
- Creating a Markdown Service
- Other Ways to Test
- Recap
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Chapter 7 - The 10 Minute Blog
- Chapter Contents
- Pre-work before the 10 Minute Blog
- 0:00 to 2:30 - Creating the Posts table
- 2:30 to 5:00 - Seeding Posts with test data
- 5:00 to 5:30 - Creating configuration
- 5:30 to 7:30 - Creating the routes and controller
- 7:30 to 10:00 - Creating the views
- Recap
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Chapter 8 - Starting the Admin Area
- Chapter Contents
- Establishing the Routes
- Creating the Admin Controllers
- Creating the Views
- Testing logging in and out
- Recap
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Chapter 9 - Using Bower
- Chapter Contents
- Stealing Code
- Installing Bower
- Pulling in Bootstrap
- Creating admin.less
- Gulping Bootstrap
- Running gulp
- Updating the admin layout
- Adding FontAwesome and DataTables
- Recap
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Chapter 10 - Blog Tags
- Chapter Contents
- Creating the Model and Migrations
- Implementing admin.tag.index
- Implementing admin.tag.create
- Implementing admin.tag.store
- Implementing admin.tag.edit
- Implementing admin.tag.update
- Finishing the Tag System
- Recap
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Chapter 11 - Upload Manager
- Chapter Contents
- Configuring the File System
- Adding a Helpers file
- Creating an Upload Manager Service
- Implementing UploadController index
- Finishing the Upload Manager
- Setting Up Your S3 Account
- Configuring L5Beauty to Use S3
- Installing an Additional Package
- Test The Upload Manager
- Fixing Bucket Permissions
- Recap
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Chapter 12 - Posts Administration
- Chapter Contents
- Modifying the Posts table
- Updating the Models
- Adding Selectize.js and Pickadate.js
- Creating the Request Classes
- Creating the PostFormFields Job
- Adding to helpers.php
- Updating the Post Model
- Updating the Controller
- The Post Views
- Removing the show route
- Recap
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Chapter 13 - Cleaning Up the Blog
- Chapter Contents
- Using the Clean Blog Template
- Creating the BlogIndexData Job
- Updating the BlogController
- Building the Assets
- The Blog Views
- Adding a Few Model Methods
- Updating the Blog Config
- Updating our Sample Data
- Recap
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Chapter 14 - Sending Mail and Using Queues
- Contents
- Setting Up for Emails
- Adding a Contact Us Form
- About Queues
- Queuing the Contact Us Email
- Automatically Processing the Queue
- Queing Jobs
- Recap
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Chapter 15 - Adding Comments, RSS, and a Site Map
- Contents
- The Problem with Comments
- Adding Disqus Comments
- Adding Social Links
- Creating a RSS Feed
- Create a Site Map
- Recap
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Chapter 16 - General Recap and Looking Forward
- Contents
- Testing
- Eloquent Models and the Fluent Query Builder
- Advanced Routing
- Migrations, Seeding, and Model Factories
- Dependency and Method Injection
- Facades vs. helpers vs. IoC objects
- Laravel Elixir
- Tinker
- Artisan Commands
- Events
- Form Requests
- Blade Template Engine
- Flysystem
- Queues
- Blog Features to Add
- Final Recap and Thank You
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