Laravel

Commandline Basics

Create a new laravel project - $ laravel new project
Start webserver - $ php artisan serve

Routes

‘app/Http/routes.php’

Small things can be put directly into the routes file:

<?php
    Route::get('/', function () {
        return view('welcome');       // 'resources/views/welcome.blade.php'
    });

    Route::get('about', function () {
        return view("pages.about");   // 'resources/views/pages/about.blade.php'
    });

    Route::get('/data', function () {
        $people = ['Taylor', 'Matt', 'Jeffrey'];
        // return View::make();
        // return view('welcome', ['people' => $people ]);
        // return view('welcome')->with('people', $people);
        // return view('welcome')->withPeople($people);
        return view('welcome', compact('people'));
    });

But a better way is it to put it into a controller:

<?php   // Calling Controller Format: ControllerName @ Method
    Route::get('about', 'PagesController@about');

Controllers

‘App/Http/Controllers’

$ php artisan help make:controller
$ php artisan make:controller PagesController

Views with Blade - Templating Engine

‘resources/views’

blade doc

<!-- the old way:    -->
    <?php foreach ($people as $person) : ?>
        <li><?= $person; ?></li>
    <?php endforeach; ?>

<!-- the blade way: -->
    @if (empty($people))
        There are no people.
    @else
        There are some people.
    @endif

    @unless (true == true)
        unless works also
    @endunless

    @foreach ($people as $person)
        <li></li>
    @endforeach

Blade-Layout Files

Inside the layout file (layout.blade.php):

@yield('content')  // yield a section of the template file

Inside the template file:

@extends('layout')  // reference to layout.blade.php

@section('content')  // define the start of the section 'content'
[...]
@stop

Build Process - CSS, SCSS, JS, …

Laravel uses elixir - references can be found in the ‘/gulpfile.js’. To install all needed packages do a ‘npm install’ (which installs all packages referenced in the ‘package.json’ file).

To run the build process:

$ gulp or $ gulp --production or $ gulp watch

Further elixir tutorial at laracasts video…

SCSS

‘resources/assets/sass/app.scss’

Database

‘config/database.php’

Laravel uses an ORM called eloquent

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