The document provides an overview of setting up a Laravel development environment using Laravel Homestead, a Vagrant box that simplifies installation of necessary server software. It details prerequisites like VirtualBox and Vagrant, and outlines the installation steps for Homestead, including configuring a basic application. The document also highlights key features of Laravel, such as user management and application structure.

1. Laravel from the
Ground Up
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2. Who Am I?
Joe Ferguson
PHP Developer
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3. Before we begin
Have Virtualbox (virtualbox.org)
Installed
Have VirtualBox Extension Pack
Installed
Have Vagrant (vagrantup.com) Installed
run: vagrant box add laravel/homestead

4. The Plan
Brief overview of Laravel
Local Development Environment
Build an Application
Testing Your Application
Deploying Your Application

5. Brief overview of
Laravel

6. Love beautiful code? We do too.
The PHP Framework For Web Artisans

7. Elegant applications
delivered at warp speed

8. Expressive, beautiful
syntax

9. Database ORM

10. Routing

11. Layouts and views

12. Validation

13. Application Structure

14. Local Development
Environment

15. Laravel Homestead
“Laravel Homestead is an official, pre-packaged
Vagrant "box" that provides you a wonderful
development environment without requiring
you to install PHP, HHVM, a web server, and
any other server software on your local machine.”

16. What’s in the box:
• Ubuntu 14.04
• PHP 5.6
• HHVM
• Nginx
• MySQL
• Postgres
• Redis
• NodeJS
• Bower
• Grunt
• Gulp
• Beanstalkd
• Memcached
• Laravel Envoy
Fabric + HipChat Extension + more!

17. Getting Homestead
Install the box:
vagrant box add laravel/homestead
Clone the Repository:
git clone https://github.com/laravel/homestead.git Homestead

18. Configure Homestead
Default: Hello World:

19. Update /etc/hosts
192.168.10.10 hello-world.app

20. Ready to vagrant up
Our code will be shared from our host machine
And mapped to the vagrant machine
~/PhpstormProjects/hello-world
/home/vagrant/hello-world

21. How I use Homestead

22. Install Homestead
http://laravel.com/docs/5.1/homestead#per-project-installation

23. $ vagrant up

24. Application Features
User Login
User Management
on user reg queue admin email
contact us saves to DB and emails admin
layout with menu extending

25. Feedback!
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