The document introduces Simon Funk, the CEO of Tree Stones Web Agency, and provides an overview of Laravel, a PHP framework designed to simplify web development. It covers Laravel's philosophy, structure, routing, templating, Eloquent ORM, authentication, testing tools, and various ecosystem components like Lumen, Socialite, and Forge. Additionally, it lists community resources, events, and learning materials for Laravel developers.

1. Introduction

2. Who am I?
• Simon Funk
• CEO and founder of Tree Stones web agency
• Passionate Webdeveloper and Laravel enthusiast
• Always interested for new technology and innovations

3. When I discovered Laravel

4. What is Laravel?
• PHP Framework for Artisans
• First release 2011
• Built on top of Symfony2 Components
• MVC based
• Like any framework, provides services and libraries to make interaction
with web requests and other services

5. Laravel Philosophy
• Love beatiful code
• Has expressive, elegant syntax
• Attempts to take the pain out of development (authentication, routing,
sessions, and caching)
• Providing powerful tools needed for large, robust applications
• Happy developers make the best code

6. Who is behind?
Taylor Otwell

7. Google Trend

8. The Installation
• Larave is based on Composer
• Installation via Laravel Installer
• Installation via Composer

9. Laravel folder structer
Controllers
Models
Views

10. The Basics
• Routing
• Controllers
• Templating (Blade)
• ORM (Eloquent)

11. Routing
• Handles the HTTP requests
• GET, POST, PUT, PATCH, DELETE
• Routes are defined in routes.php
• Routes can uses a closure
• Or you can use a Controller

12. Routing

13. Route List
• image

14. Controller

15. Blade
• Laravel default template engine
• Files need to use .blade.php extension
• Driven by inheritance and sections
• Extensible for adding new custom contol structures (directives)

16. Define a Blade Layout

17. Using a Blade Layout

18. Eloquent (ORM)
• Active Record
• Table – plural, snake_case class name
• Migrations
• Support relationship
• Soft deleting
• Timestamp

19. Migration & Seeder
• Migration • Seeder

20. Model

21. Artisan
• Laravel CLI, command «php artisan do:somtehing»
• Uses the Symfony Console component
• Manage table migrations, seed tables, create resourceful controllers
• Many more

22. Artisan

23. Service Container
• Manages class depencies
• Based on dependency injection method
• Dependencies are injected at run-time
• Allowing dependencies to be easily swapped

24. Service Container

25. Service Providers
• Act like component bootstrap
• Group related Service Container registrations in one place
• Can also run other functionalities like artisan command

26. Service Providers

27. Facades – What are they?
• Facade::doSomethingCool()
• Isn’t that a static method?
• Well, no

28. Facades – What are they?
• A «static» access to underlying service
• Lool like static resources, but actually uses services underneath
• Classes are resolved via Service Containers

29. Facades
• Laravel has a lot usefull usages of Facades like
• App::config()
• View::make()
• DB::table()
• Mail::send()
• Request::get()
• Session::get()
• Url::route()
• And much more…

30. Queue
• Provides a unified API across queue back-ends
• Interface to
• Amazon SQS
• IronMQ
• Redis queues
• Beanstalkd
• Sync – calls job inline

31. Middleware
• Allows processing or filtering of requests entering the system
• Example: Authentication, manipulation of content

32. Encryption
• Simplified encryption using mcrypt
• Available as Facade Crypt::(‘secret’)

33. Filesystem
• Abstraction layer to filesystem
• Local filesystem
• Amaron S3
• Rackspace Cloud Storage
• FTP/SFTP
• Dropbox
• Uses the league/flysystem library

34. Authentication
• Inlcudes libraries to do basic username/password authentication out
of the box
• Includes password recovery (Forgot password)
• Protecting routes using filters

35. Testing
• Testing Toolset
• Supports PHPUnit out of the box
• Easy to get started with Composer
• Allows you to simulate a web browser
• Support Mockery

36. Ecosystem
• Laravel
• Lumen
• Socialite
• Cashier
• Elixir
• Envoyer
• Spark (coming soon)
• Homestead
• Forge

37. Lumen
• Micor-framework for Micro-services
• Sacrifices configurability for speed
• Easy upgrade to a full Laravel application

38. Socialite
• Integrates Social authentication functionality
• Almost for all popular platforms available
• http://socialiteproviders.github.io

39. Cashier
• Billing without the hassle
• Subscription logic included
• Easy to setup

40. Envoy
• A simple deployment solution
• Handles SSH tasks
• Deploy on miltiple servers at onve

41. Elixir
• Gulp simplified
• Compilation, concatenation, minifaction, auto-prefixing,…
• Support for
• Source Maps
• CoffeScript
• Browserify
• Babel
• …

42. Spark (coming soon)
• Billing
• Team management
• Invitations
• Registration
• 2-factor auth
• …

43. Homestead
• Comes with everything you need
• Ubuntu
• PHP 5.6 & 7
• Nginx
• MySQL & Postgres
• Node
• Memcached
• …

44. Forge
• Automates the process to setup a server
• You don’t need to learn how to set up one
• Saves you the effort of settings everything up
• Globally, saves you ridiculous amounts of time

45. Envoyer (!= Envoy)
• Zero downtime deployments
• Seamless rollbacks
• Cronjobs monitoring with heartbeats
• Deployment health status

46. Community
• Slack http://larachat.co/
• Forum https://laracasts.com/discuss
• Forum http://laravel.io/forum
• Twitter https://twitter.com/laravelphp
• GitHub https://github.com/laravel/laravel

47. Conference
• LaraconUS July 27-29, Kentucky USA http://laracon.us/
• LaraconEU August 23-24, Amsterdam NL http://laracon.eu

48. Learning
• Laravel Documentation https://laravel.com/
• Laracasts https://laracasts.com/

49. CMS
• AsgardCMS https://asgardcms.com/
• OctoberCMS http://octobercms.com/

50. Thank you!
Questions?