Introduction to LaravelBill Condo // 2013-01-09

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Lineage

April 2011 by Taylor Otwell

February 2006 by EllisLab

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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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Overview

• MVC Framework with Bundles, Migrations, and Artisan CLI

• Eloquent ORM, Restful Controllers, Class Auto Loading, and Powerful Routing

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Project Structure

• application

• bundles

• laravel

• public

• storage

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Example Controller

Basic Controller

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... And Another

REST Controller

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Example Model

Basic Eloquent Model

all(), find(), where(), count(), save(), delete(), and more auto included.

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Example View

Calling From Controller

Passing in Data

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Example View Cont.

Accessing Data

*Also, View Templating is available with Blade.

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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...#laravel irc.freenode.net

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Questions?

• billcondo@gmail.com

• @mavrck

• billcondo.com / mavrck.com

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