This document is an introduction to the Laravel PHP framework presented by Dayle Rees. It discusses Laravel's history and growth from 2011 to present, how Rees became involved as an early user and contributor, and key features of Laravel like its dependency injection container, Eloquent ORM, queues, authentication, caching and more. It also promotes resources like Laravel Forge and Homestead for getting started with Laravel development.

1. ( and history of )
An Introduction to Laravel PHP

2. Who the fudge is this guy?
• Dayle Rees.
• 30 in December. *cry*
• Lives in Cardiff with GF Emma.

3. Welsh!
( Sounds English )

4. The Red Panda Guy
Also Big Panda / PHPanda / 1000s of others.
( Now, Le Panda Rouge? )

5. • Head of Development
• Startup (Seed round A)
• Index Ventures (Facebook!)
• Sharing Economy
• http://www.justpark.com
• (Previously ParkatmyHouse)

6. Laravel Team Member
• One of the first users.
• Team of high profile PHP
developers.
• Laravel 3 Bundles
• Laravel 4 Bundles

7. Accidental
Author
Over 7000 readers. #1 gross earnings.
http://leanpub.com/codebright

8. Laracons!
Spoke
Washington DC (Laracon US 2013)
New York (Laracon US 2014)
Attended
Amsterdam (Laracon EU 2013)
Amsterdam (Laracon EU 2014)

9. Colour Schemes “Engineer”
http://github.com/daylerees/colour-schemes
100 or so themes for a numbers of
editors and libraries.

11. Merci!

12. What’s this talk all about?
Open source, history and growth. (Story time.)
Laravel. (Cool stuff!)

13. Let’s go back in time to 2011!
(Imagine wibbly-wobbly effect.)

14. Working in Aberystwyth
•Using CodeIgniter.
•Simple projects.
•No side projects.
•Not “known” for anything.

15. Contributed to CodeIgniter
Started out with graphic contributions.
Accepted by Phil Sturgeon. (Thanks Phil!)
Rejected by EllisLab.
Started to outgrow the framework.

16. Time for a new framework!
VS

17. Laravel 2.something
• Simple website.
• Great documentation.
• Clean and simple code.
• No users.
• Mystery author.

18. Community time!
• Became active in IRC.
• Then: 3 people. Now: ~600.
• Started writing tutorials.
• Tutorials got attention.
• Released Code Happy.
• CodeIgniter users shifting across.

19. Involvement (L3)
• Started submitting fixes and features to the pre-release
Laravel 3.
• Helped build/design the website for Laravel 3
(and later 4).
• Did lots of visual work for the framework
including splash screens.
• Built popular bundles for Laravel 3.
• Help build a welcoming and helpful community.

20. Friendship
Taylor Otwell
(Grand Master Artisan)

21. Laravel 3 had it’s flaws.
TESTING :(
EXTENSIBILITY :’(

22. Time for Laravel 4!
• Taylor started work on Laravel 4.
• One of first users when it was built on Silex.
• Feedback loop.
• Exciting new architecture.
• Stable release cycle.
• Powered by Composer (Thanks Jordi!)
• Component-based framework.
• Uses plenty of open source! (Some Symfony, thanks Fabpot!)

23. The Promise
• No preaching!
• No moaning about other frameworks.
• Just cool features!
• Intro to IOC / DI.

24. Laravel
• Coding should be enjoyable.
• Code can be art.
• Clean and simple syntax.
• Your framework should grow with you.
• A complete platform, end to end.
• Components that solve real problems.
• Embrace open source, and make use
of it where possible.
• Give back to open source community
where possible.
• A community of friendly Artisans.

25. Automatic type-hinted dependency resolution and
injection inversion of control container.

26. Magic Code Box

27. Basic Usage

28. The same something!

29. Automatic Class Resolution
( From the magic box! )

30. Type-hinted Dependency Resolution

31. Tricking the magic box.

32. Let’s do something cool.

33. Implementations
( Shameless colour schemes promo.)

34. Bind the interface.
( Still have no shame, I mean, just look at the beard.)

35. Use our new service.
Imagine username here.

36. Interchangeable!

37. Components / Services

38. Facades!
Resolve the service from the container (magic box) by known key.
Forward the method call to the real service instance with parameters.

39. Replacing components.

40. Why bind?

41. The Magic Box Revisited
• Not just a data store!
• A number of binding methods.
• Automated class resolution.
• Automatic dependency
injection.
• Interface binding.
• Service replacement / mocking.
• Extensible framework.
• Facades without the testing
problems.
• The heart of the framework!
• illuminate/container
( Not so magic anymore, hopefully! )

42. Routes

43. Resource Controller

44. Named Routes

45. Route Filters
( Defaults: csrf auth auth.basic guest )

46. Route Groups

47. Database time!
( Drivers: MySQL, PostgresSQL, SQLite, SQL Server )

48. Eloquent Models

49. Eloquent Models

50. Relationships

51. Relationships

52. Eager Loading

53. Queues
Drivers: Beanstalkd, IronMQ, Amazon SQS, Redis.

54. Queues

55. Authentication

56. Cache
( Drivers: Database, File, APC, Memcached, XCache, WinCache, Redis, Array, Null )

57. Cache

58. Events

59. Model Events

60. Artisan

61. Artisan Commands

62. Sending Mail
( Drivers: SMTP, Mailgun, Mandrill. )

63. Validation
( Because users are wrong… always. )

64. More!
• Redis Client
• Blade Templating
• Stripe subscription-based billing.
• Log system.
• Custom exception handling.
• Informative debugging.
• Form helpers.
• Localisation.
• Workbench.
• Paginator.
• Session Wrapper.
• Remote SSH component.
• Test helpers.
• Database seeding.
• Route model binding.
• Response casting.
• Environment-based config loader.
Loads more! Hands are tired from typing.

65. Laravel Forge
• PHP Hosting for Artisans.
• Push to deploy.
• Choose your own cloud.
• Latest web stack.
• HHVM ready.
• Recipes. (stored scripts)

66. Homestead
• Ubuntu 14.04
• PHP 5.6
• HHVM
• Nginx
• MySQL
• Postgres
• Node (With Bower,
Grunt, and Gulp)
• Redis
• Memcached
• Beanstalkd
• Laravel Envoy
• Fabric + HipChat
Extension

67. What are you waiting for?
( Thanks for listening! Sorry if I’ve got 20 minutes left! )
composer create-project laravel/laravel
• Visit #laravel on Freenode.
• Read Code Bright (come give me your email for a free copy)
• Watch some Laracasts! (Sup Jeff!)
• Visit Laravel.io and listen to the podcast!
• Follow some Laravel guys on twitter. ( @daylerees @taylorotwell @jeffrey_way )
• Come say bonjour to me!