Bootstrap + Laravel PHP
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THE PHP FRAMEWORK FOR
WEB ARTISANS
What is Laravel?
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Developed by Taylor Otwell
Web application framework
Follows MVC design pattern
Expressive syntax
Why use Laravel
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Elegant syntax
Utilizes the latest PHP features
Well documented
CLI Tools
Eloquent ORM
Fun to develop with
Closures
• Introduced in PHP 5.3
• Anonymous functions
Route::get(‘login’, function() {
return View::make(‘users/login’);
});
The Syntactic Sugar
• Easy to understand
• Expressiveness and elegance
Auth::check()
Input::get()
User::all()
The MVC Layers
• Eloquent ORM
• Blade Engine
• Controller
Eloquent ORM
• Easy to use
class Feed extends Eloquent {
public function user()
{
return $this->belongsTo('User');
}
public function moment()
{
return $this->created_at->diffForHumans();
}
}
Eloquent ORM
• Example queries:
Book::all()
Book::find(1)
Book::where(‘name’, ‘=‘, ‘John Doe’)
• Insert / Update
$b = new Book();
$b->title = ‘Intro to Laravel’;
$b->description = ‘This book rocks’;
$b->save;
$b = Book::find(2);
$b->title = ‘Advanced Laravel’;
$b->save();
Eloquent ORM
• Relationship mapping
public function user()
{
return $this->belongsTo(‘Author’, ‘authro_id’);
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Blade Engine
• Stock templating engine for laravel
• Supports template inheritance and sections
<html>
<head>
<title>@yield('page_title')</title>
</head>
<body>
Some text @yield('content')
</body>
</html>
Blade Engine
@extends(‘layout’)
@section(‘page title’, ‘Test Page’)
@section(‘content’)
Hello user!
@stop
Bootstrap
The most popular front-end framework for
developing responsive, mobile first projects on
the web.
