This document serves as a comprehensive guide to using Laravel, covering topics such as installation, project structure, development, testing, and deployment. It discusses the Laravel ecosystem and tools like Homestead, Envoy, and Forge, while providing practical commands and tutorials for building applications. Additionally, it introduces related services like Laravel Cashier for billing and Laravel Spark for subscription management.

1. 20162016

2. All the Laravel things: up
and running to making $$
Joe Ferguson

3. Who Am I?
Joe Ferguson
PHP Developer
Engineer @ Aol.
Twitter: @JoePFerguson
Organizer of @MemphisPHP
OSMI Board Member
@NomadPHP Lightning Talks
Passionate about Community

4. For Further Reading
laravelupandrunning.com easylaravelbook.com

5. What exactly is Laravel?

6. Laravel Ecosystem
FrameworkTools
Learning &
Community

7. Quick note on versions
5.1 LTS bug fixes for 2 years, security fixes for 3 years
Non LTS: bug fixes for 6 months, security fixes for 1 year
5.1 is currently the only LTS version

8. Which version should you use?
5.3 for my own projects
5.1 for client projects

9. Getting Laravel
composer global require “laravel/installer”

10. Installing Laravel
laravel new quickstart-basic-5.3

11. Install via Composer
composer create-project --prefer-dist laravel/laravel blog

12. Local Dev Environment

13. What’s in Homestead
• Ubuntu 16.04
• PHP 7.0
• HHVM
• Nginx
• MySQL
• MariaDB
• Sqlite3
• Postgres
• Composer
• NodeJS
• Bower
• Grunt
• Gulp
• Beanstalkd
• Memcached
• Redis

14. Getting Homestead
git clone https://github.com/laravel/homestead.git Homestead

15. Getting Homestead
cd Homestead && bash init.sh

16. How I use Homestead
composer require —dev laravel/homestead

17. Make Homestead
./vendor/bin/homested make —aliases

18. What is —aliases?

19. Configuring Homestead

20. Starting Homestead

21. Inspecting Homestead

22. Edit /etc/hosts
Optional for per project Homestead

23. Inspecting Homestead

24. Inspecting Homestead

25. Stopping Homestead

26. Don’t version control
Homestead.yaml

27. Questions?

28. Getting Started with Laravel

29. Project Structure

30. app Folder

31. config Folder

32. database Folder

33. public Folder

34. resources Folder

35. routes Folder

36. Model Factories
database/factories/ModelFactory.php

37. User Migration up()
database/migrations

38. User Migration down()
database/migrations

39. Database Seeders

40. Artisan Commands

41. Artisan Commands

42. Create Migration
artisan make:migration create_widgets_table

43. Create Migration

44. Create Migration

45. Run Migration(s)
artisan migrate

46. Inspect the Database
Password is “secret”

47. Inspect the Database

48. Create a model
artisan make:model Widget

49. Widget model

50. Add Widget ModelFactory
database/factories/ModelFactory.php

51. Create a seeder
artisan make:seeder WidgetSeeder

52. WidgetSeeder

53. DatabaseSeeder

54. Run Database Seeders
artisan db:seed

55. Users Table

56. Widgets Table

57. Routing
routes/web.php

58. Why 3 route files?!

59. Add /widgets Route

60. localhost:8000/widgets

61. Frontend Development

62. Run: npm install

63. Run: gulp

64. Compiled Assets

65. Layouts

66. Example View

67. Return a view()
routes/web.php

68. Refresh /widgets
localhost:8000/widgets

69. Clean up our layout

70. Widgets Index View

71. Pass data to a view
routes/web.php

72. localhost:8000/widgets

73. Questions?

74. Testing our Application

75. Testing our Widgets

76. Testing our Widgets

77. Testing our Widgets

78. Running phpunit

79. Route Groups

80. Form Requests

81. WidgetCreateRequest

82. HTML Forms

83. Widget Routes

84. Add Widget

85. Test Add Widget Form

86. Questions?

87. Controllers

88. Routing to Controllers

89. Routing to Controllers

90. Routing to Controllers

91. Widget Tests Still Pass

92. Questions?

93. Model Relationships
One to One
A User has a Phone Number
One to Many
A Post has many Comments
Many to Many
Users have may Roles

94. Task belongs to User

95. User has many Tasks

96. Query Model
Relationships

97. The N+1 Problem

98. Eager Loading

99. Questions?

100. How do we get it to the
server?

101. Envoy
Envoy provides easy ways to run command
commands on remote servers such as pulling
code from git, running artisan commands, etc.
Envoy uses blade template syntax
Envoy only supports Mac & Linux

102. Sample Envoy Config

103. Sample Envoy Config

104. Envoy Configuration

105. Easy OAuth Login

106. Laravel Socialite
Easily allow users to authenticate via Github,
Google, Twitter, Facebook, Bitbucket, or Linkedin
Handles almost all the boilerplate for you
https://github.com/laravel/socialite

107. composer require
laravel/socialite

108. Configure Socialite

109. Configure Socialite

110. AuthController

111. Add Socialite Routes

112. Making $$$

113. Laravel Cashier
Expressive interface to Stripe and Braintree
subscription billing services
Free, open source package easily added to
Laravel
Designed for subscription, not one off charges
https://laravel.com/docs/5.3/billing

114. Installing Cashier

115. Configure Cashier

116. Cashier Migration

117. Billable Trait

118. Stripe API Keys

119. Subscribing a User
https://laravel.com/docs/5.3/billing

120. Laravel Spark
SASS in a box
You bring the Service
Spark brings the boilerplate of billing,
authentication, and more
$99 For a single site
$299 For unlimited sites

121. Laravel Spark

122. Questions?

123. Artisan Commands

124. Create a new Command

125. Create a new Command

126. app/Console/Kernel.php

127. BasicCommand.php

128. Signature

129. Description

130. Constructor

131. Handle The Command

132. Running our Command

133. Output Some Text

134. Output Some Text

135. Output Warning Text

136. Output Warning Text

137. Output Error Text

138. Output Error Text

139. Questions?

140. Authentication

141. artisan make:auth

142. View Files

143. Auth Routes

144. Layout :(

145. Register a new user

146. Logged In User

147. Add our Navigation

148. http://localhost:8000

149. localhost:8000/widgets

150. Multiple Middleware

151. Not Logged In?

152. Test Errors and Failure

153. Run test as a user

154. Test now passes

155. Questions?

156. Laravel Forge
“A simple way to deploy your Laravel applications
onto blazing fast servers”

157. Forge is Homestead
and more in the cloud

158. Forge is not a server host

159. Forge uses your servers

160. Forge uses any* server
*Any Internet accesible Ubuntu 14.04 x64 Server

161. Laravel Forge
• Unlimited Servers.
• Unlimited Sites.
• Unlimited Deployments.
• Push To Deploy.
Laravel Forge Plus
• Share Servers With Teammates.
• Unlimited Servers.
• Unlimited Sites.
• Unlimited Deployments.
• Push To Deploy.
$15/Month
$140/Year
$30/Month
$300/Year

162. Adding Servers To Forge

163. Adding a site to a server

164. Adding a ssh key to a server

165. Adding scheduled (cron) jobs

166. Adding daemons (supervisor)

167. Creating server networks

168. Server Monitoring

169. Update Server Meta Data

170. Adding our hello-world site

171. Install our Git Repository

172. Configure App Deployment

173. Deploy!

174. Deploy!
Continuous
Delivery!

175. Deployment Log

176. Setting Environment Variables

177. Queue Workers

178. Configure / Install SSL

179. LetsEncrypt.org
100% Supported

180. Envoyer.io

181. Zero Downtime
Deployments with
Envoyer.io

182. Envoyer
10 Projects - $10/month or $100/year
20 Projects - $20/month or $200/year
Envoyer Plus
Unlimited Projects - $50/month or $500/year
Envoyer Premium

183. Add a project

184. Adding a Server

185. Add the SSH key from
Envoyer

186. Test Connection Status
Envoyer now connected to our Forge Server

187. Project Path

188. Our first Deployment

189. Deployment Recap

190. Deploy when code is pushed

191. Free Video Series at Laracasts
https://laracasts.com/series/envoyer
https://envoyer.io/docs

192. Questions?

193. Feedback!
https://joind.in/talk/4eb90
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