Laravel: Up and Running: A Framework for Building Modern PHP Apps

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Product Description What sets Laravel apart from other PHP web frameworks? Speed and simplicity, for starters. This rapid application development framework and its vast ecosystem of tools let you quickly build new sites and applications with clean, readable code. With this practical guide, Matt Stauffer--a leading teacher and developer in the Laravel community--provides the definitive introduction to one of today's most popular web frameworks.The book's high-level overview and concrete examples will help experienced PHP web developers get started with Laravel right away. By the time you reach the last page, you should feel comfortable writing an entire application in Laravel from scratch.Dive into several features of this framework, including:Blade, Laravel's powerful, custom templating toolTools for gathering, validating, normalizing, and filtering user-provided dataLaravel's Eloquent ORM for working with the application's databasesThe Illuminate request object, and its role in the application lifecyclePHPUnit, Mockery, and PHPSpec for testing your PHP codeLaravel's tools for writing JSON and RESTful APIsInterfaces for file system access, sessions, cookies, caches, and searchTools for implementing queues, jobs, events, and WebSocket event publishingLaravel's specialty packages: Scout, Passport, Cashier, Echo, Elixir, Valet, and Socialite Review "Not only is Matt one of the most knowledgable members of the Laravel community, he is also a fantastic teacher. I'm proud to recommend this book as a thorough, extensive guide to the Laravel framework." -Taylor Otwell, creator of Laravel"As a self-diagnosed evangelist for Laravel, I'm thankful to finally have a book that I can point newcomers to. Even better, I can think of no one more qualified to introduce this wonderful framework to the masses than Matt." -Jeffrey Way, creator of Laracasts About the Author Matt Stauffer is a developer and a teacher. He is a partner and technical director at Tighten Co., blogs at mattstauffer.co, and hosts The Five-Minute Geek Show and the Laravel Podcast.