Mastering Laravel + Code

• Author: Christopher John Pecoraro
• Language: English
• Publisher: Packt Publishing - ebooks Account (July 2015)
• Pages: 232
• Size:  2 MB
• Format: pdf
• ISBN-13: 978-1785285028
• ISBN-10: 1785285025

Develop robust modern web-based software applications and RESTful APIs with Laravel, one of the hottest PHP frameworks

 

About This Book

• Master the flashiest functionalities Laravel has to offer
• Use PHPSpec to design testable software by specification to ensure quality code
• Explore the best-practices and latest features of Laravel 5

Who This Book Is For

If you are an experienced or a capable PHP programmer who has a basic understanding of the concepts of modern PHP (at least version 5.4), this book is ideal for you.
Basic object-oriented programming and database knowledge is expected. You should already know your way around Laravel, or have at least experimented with the framework.

What You Will Learn

• Convert specifications into classes and functions, using a specification-based behavioral-driven design (BDD)
• Create a deployment script for a continuous delivery environment
• Use Eloquent to interact with the database in an object-oriented manner
• Create RESTful APIs to allow an application to interact with other programs
• Easily scale software with route caching and the read/write configuration
• Use DocBlock annotations to enhance controllers and reduce the amount of code required