The document provides an overview of Laravel 5.1, highlighting its new features, such as long-term support, a new folder structure, and improved middleware handling. Key advancements include the transition to object-oriented events and requests, streamlined authentication processes, and enhanced dependency management through environment configuration. Additionally, it outlines steps for upgrading from Laravel 4.2 to 5.1, emphasizing the need to migrate in a new environment.

1. All Aboard for Laravel 5.1
Jason McCreary
"JMac"
@gonedark

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A short rant about frameworks
Choose wisely and code carefully
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Talk the Talk
1. What’s New in Laravel 5.0
2. Upgrading from Laravel 4.2
3. What’s New in Laravel 5.1
4. What’s coming in Laravel 5.2
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The Goal
“To get you familiar with the new features in Laravel so
you are comfortable upgrading your projects to 5.1”
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Why Upgrade?
“Laravel 5.1 is the first release of Laravel to receive
long term support. Laravel 5.1 will receive bug fixes
for 2 years and security fixes for 3 years.This support
window is the largest ever provided for Laravel and
provides stability and peace of mind for larger,
enterprise clients and customers.”
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What’s New…
In Laravel 5.0
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New Folder Structure
• Follows PSR-4 naming conventions
• App namespacing
• Models live in the default namespace
• Everything related to HTTP lives under Http/
(controllers, middleware, requests)
• Views live outside the App namespace within
resources/.
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Folder Structure
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App Folder
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Namespacing
<?php namespace App;
// ...
class User extends Model {
// ...
}
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Namespacing
<?php namespace AppHttpControllers;
class HomeController extends Controller {
public function index()
{
return view('home');
}
}
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Namespacing
"autoload": {
"classmap": [
"app/commands",
"app/controllers",
"app/models",
"app/database/migrations",
"app/database/seeds",
"app/tests/TestCase.php"
]
},
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"autoload": {
"classmap": [
"database"
],
"psr-4": {
"App": "app/"
}
},
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New Objects
• Events are now objects, not strings!
• Command objects allow simpler job processing
• Requests are now objects
• Middleware objects to replace Filters
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Middleware
“HTTP middleware provide a convenient mechanism
for filtering HTTP requests entering your application.”
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Middleware
<?php namespace AppHttpControllers;
class HomeController extends Controller {
public function __construct()
{
$this->middleware('auth');
}
// ...
}
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Middleware
<?php namespace AppHttpMiddleware;
use Closure;
class TimeoutMiddleware {
public function handle($request, Closure $next) {
if (abs(time() - $request->input(‘ttl’)) > 300) {
return redirect('timeout');
}
return $next($request);
}
}
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Form Request Objects
“A simple way to customize request validation
automatically.”
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Form Request Objects
<?php namespace AppHttpRequests;
class RegisterRequest extends FormRequest {
public function rules() {
return [
'email' => 'required|email|unique:users',
'password' => 'required|confirmed|min:8'
];
}
}
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Controller Method Injection
“In addition to constructor injection, you may now
type-hint dependencies on controller methods. These
objects will be resolved and available along with any
route parameters.”
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Controller Method Injection
public function register(
RegisterRequest $request,
RegistrationRepository $registration)
{
// ...
}
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ControllerValidation
"If FormRequests are a little too much, the Laravel 5
base controller now includes a
ValidatesRequests trait.This trait provides a
simple validate() method to validate incoming
requests."
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ControllerValidation
public function register(Request $request)
{
$this->validate($request, [
'email' => 'required|email|unique:users',
'password' => 'required|confirmed|min:8'
]);
}
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Environment Configuration
“Laravel 5 uses the DotEnv library to condense all
configuration values into a single .env file. These
values get loaded into $_ENV and available through the
env() helper method.”
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Environment Configuration
APP_ENV=local
APP_DEBUG=true
APP_KEY=SomeRandomString
DB_HOST=localhost
DB_DATABASE=homestead
DB_USERNAME=homestead
DB_PASSWORD=secret
CACHE_DRIVER=file
SESSION_DRIVER=file
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<?php
return array(
'APP_KEY' => 'secretkey',
);
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Environment Configuration
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<?php
return [
'debug' => env('APP_DEBUG'),
// ...
'key' => env('APP_KEY', 'SomeRandomString'),
// ...
];

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Artisan Updates
• Now includes several make commands to generate
common objects
• tinker is now backed by Psysh for a more powerful
REPL
• route commands for listing and caching routes
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Authentication
“User registration, authentication, and password reset
controllers are now included out of the box, as well as
simple corresponding views.”
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User Model (4.2)
<?php
use IlluminateAuthUserTrait;
use IlluminateAuthUserInterface;
use IlluminateAuthRemindersRemindableTrait;
use IlluminateAuthRemindersRemindableInterface;
class User extends Eloquent implements UserInterface,
RemindableInterface {
use UserTrait, RemindableTrait;
protected $table = 'users';
protected $hidden = array('password', 'remember_token');
}
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User Model (5.0)
<?php namespace App;
use IlluminateAuthAuthenticatable;
use IlluminateDatabaseEloquentModel;
use IlluminateAuthPasswordsCanResetPassword;
use IlluminateContractsAuthAuthenticatable as AuthenticatableContract;
use IlluminateContractsAuthCanResetPassword as
CanResetPasswordContract;
class User extends Model implements AuthenticatableContract,
CanResetPasswordContract {
use Authenticatable, CanResetPassword;
protected $table = 'users';
protected $fillable = ['name', 'email', 'password'];
protected $hidden = ['password', 'remember_token'];
}
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Blade
“By default, Laravel 5.0 escapes all output from both
the {{ }} and {{{ }}} Blade directives. A new
{!! !!} directive has been introduced to display raw,
unescaped output.”
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Libraries and Packages
• Laravel Elixir - asset management
• Laravel Socialite - authentication with Oauth services
• Flysystem - filesystem abstraction library
• Laravel Scheduler - command manager
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Upgrading Laravel
From 4.2 to 5.0
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Two Approaches
• “New move-in”
• “Update in-place”
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What to do?
“As always, it depends. However, the documentation
recommends migrating your 4.2 app to a new Laravel 5
app. So, new move-in it is.”
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Basic Steps
1. Create a new Laravel 5 app
2. Migrate configuration
3. Move app files
4. Add namespacing
5. Review Bindings
6. Miscellaneous changes
7. Blade Tag changes
8. Update dependencies
9. Cross fingers
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Do not pass 5.0!
“Going directly to 5.1 will make the migration more
complicated as there are significant changes between
5.0 and 5.1. Do not pass 5.0. Otherwise you will not
collect $200 and you will go to jail.”
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Create new Laravel 5 app
composer create-project laravel/laravel --prefer-dist
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Create new Laravel 5 app
composer global require “laravel/installer=~1.1”
laravel new project-name
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Migrate Configuration
1. Copy configuration from your 4.2 app’s env.php
to .env
2. Compare configurations from your 4.2 app’s
config/
3. Recreate environment configurations from your 4.2
app’s config/env/ to.env
4. Update environment configurations to use env()
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Migrate Configuration
“Be sure to leave .env.example file in your project.
It should contain placeholder values that will make it
easy for other developers to copy and configure for
their environment.”
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Migrate Configuration
“When managing multiple environments, you may find it
easiest to create several .env files and symlink
the .env within each environment.”
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Move Files
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Move Files
• routes.php to app/Http/routes.php
• app/views to resources/views
• app/database to database/
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Add namespace
“You do not need to do this.You can keep everything in
the global namespace and add the paths to the
classmap just as in Laravel 4.2. However, not doing
so carries over technical debt as your project will not
truly follow Laravel 5.0’s configuration.”
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Add namespace
<?php namespace AppHttpControllers;
class YourController extends Controller {
// ...
}
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Add namespace
<?php namespace App;
class YourModel extends Eloquent {
// ...
}
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Review Bindings
"Move any service container bindings from start/
global.php to the register method of the app/
Providers/AppServiceProvider.php file."
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Miscellaneous Changes
•SoftDeletingTrait is now SoftDeletes
•User Authentication changes
•Pagination method changes
•Oh yeah, and the Form and Html Facades are gone.
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Blade Changes
1. Cry
2. Bargain
3. Face reality
4. Start changing every {{ }} to {!! !!}
5. Remove all blade comment tags {{-- --}} (you
should have known better)
6. Smile
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Update your dependencies
"Review your dependencies then run composer
update"
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Cross fingers
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Questions…
Ask now! Cause we’re moving to 5.1
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What’s New…
In Laravel 5.1
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Project Updates
• Long Term Support
• Requires PHP > 5.5.9
• Follows PSR-2
• Updated Documentation
• Uses openssl for encryption, instead of mcrypt
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App Folder
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Event Broadcasting
"makes it easy to broadcast your events over a
websocket connection."
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Middleware Parameters
<?php namespace AppHttpMiddleware;
use Closure;
class RoleMiddleware {
public function handle($request, Closure $next, $role) {
if (!$request->user()->hasRole($role)) {
// Redirect...
}
return $next($request);
}
}
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Middleware Parameters
Route::put(
‘post/{id}',
['middleware' => 'role:editor', function ($id) {
// ...
}]
);
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Focus on Testing
• Stronger integration testing
• Model factories
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What’s Coming…
In Laravel 5.2
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Laravel 5.2
• Coming December 2015
• Route filters have been deprecated in preference of
middleware.
• *_fetch methods deprecated in favor of *_pluck
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Resources
• What’s new in Laravel 5 Laracasts
• Laravel Official Upgrade Guide
• Laravel In-Place Upgrade Guide
• What’s new in Laravel 5.1 Laracasts
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Questions…
@gonedark on Twitter
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