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 Stauffera leading teacher and developer in the Laravel communityprovides the definitive introduction to one of todays most popular web frameworks.The books 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, Laravels powerful, custom templating toolTools for gathering, validating, normalizing, and filtering user-provided dataLaravels Eloquent ORM for working with the applications databasesThe Illuminate request object, and its role in the application lifecyclePHPUnit, Mockery, and PHPSpec for testing your PHP codeLaravels tools for writing JSON and RESTful APIsInterfaces for file system access, sessions, cookies, caches, and searchTools for implementing queues, jobs, events, and WebSocket event publishingLaravels specialty packages: Scout, Passport, Cashier, Echo, Elixir, Valet, and Socialite

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 Stauffera leading teacher and developer in the Laravel communityprovides the definitive introduction to one of todays most popular web frameworks.The books 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, Laravels powerful, custom templating toolTools for gathering, validating, normalizing, and filtering user-provided dataLaravels Eloquent ORM for working with the applications databasesThe Illuminate request object, and its role in the application lifecyclePHPUnit, Mockery, and PHPSpec for testing your PHP codeLaravels tools for writing JSON and RESTful APIsInterfaces for file system access, sessions, cookies, caches, and searchTools for implementing queues, jobs, events, and WebSocket event publishingLaravels specialty packages: Scout, Passport, Cashier, Echo, Elixir, Valet, and Socialite