Benjamin Gonzalez

• Web Developer back-end and more recently front-end
• Involved in PHP since 2006 with a few years off for good behaviour
• CTO for InfoPrimes, founder of Laravel Montréal we meet every month, you are welcome :)
• @BenjaminRosell at Github and Twitter … also on LinkedIn

Authentication

Events

Localization

Packages

Prerequisites

• PHP >= 5.4
• Mcrypt extension
• OpenSSL extension
• Mbstring extension
• Tokenizer extension
• JSON extension
• Composer getcomposer.org and install it globally!
• Don't worry too much PHP as binary package and relax...

Project Folders

• app < your application's logic
• bootstrap < startup stuff
• config < settings and config
• database < seeds and migrations
• resources < assets, language files and views
• storage < stuff generated by Laravel
• tests < ...
• public < static stuff: img, js, css, etc.
• composer.json < no changes here
• vendor < other people's stuff

Project files

• .env < all your environment settings
• gulpfile.js < Laravel Elixir
• phpspec.yaml < PhpSpec settings file
• phpunit.xml < PHPUnit settings file

Application Folder

• Commands < the core of your application's logic
• Console < your artisans commands
• Events < applications events
• Exceptions < exception handlers
• Handlers < Command and event's handlers
• Http < Controllers, Middleare and Requests
• Providers < Service Providers
• Services < Other "helper" classes

Application Folder

• make:command < Create a new command class
• make:console < Create a new Artisan command
• make:controller < Create a new resource controller class
• make:event < Create a new event class
• make:middleware < Create a new middleware class
• make:migration < Create a new migration file
• make:model < Create a new Eloquent model class
• make:provider < Create a new service provider class
• make:request < Create a new form request class
• event:generate < Generate the missing events and handlers

Starting a New Project

composer create-project laravel/laravel unicorn --prefer-dist

	

php artisan app:name Unicorn

	

Dependency Injection

namespace App\Handlers\Commands;

use Illuminate\Contracts\Mail\Mailer;

class PurchasePodcastHandler {

    protected $mailer;

    public function __construct()
    {
        $this->mailer = new Mailer;
    }

}


	

Dependency Injection

namespace App\Handlers\Commands;

use Illuminate\Contracts\Mail\Mailer;

class PurchasePodcastHandler {

    protected $mailer;

    public function __construct(Mailer $mailer)
    {
        $this->mailer = $mailer;
    }

}


	

Dependency Injection

namespace App\Handlers\Commands;

use Illuminate\Contracts\Mail\Mailer;
use Illuminate\Contracts\OtherClass;
use Illuminate\Contracts\Validator;
use Illuminate\Contracts\SomethingElse;

class PurchasePodcastHandler {

	[...]

    public function __construct(Mailer $mailer, OtherClass $otherClass, Validator $validator, SomethingElse $somethingElse)
    {
        $this->mailer = $mailer;
        $this->otherClass = $otherClass;
        $this->validator = $validator;
        $this->somethingElse = $somethingElse;
    }

}


	

Dependency Injection

namespace App\Handlers\Commands;

use Illuminate\Contracts\Mail\Mailer;

class PurchasePodcastHandler {

    protected $mailer;

    public function __construct(Mailer $mailer)
    {
        $this->mailer = $mailer;
    }

    public function handle(Validator $validator) {
        $validator->run();
    }

}


	

Self Validating forms !

namespace App\Http\Requests;

use Illuminate\Foundation\Http\FormRequest;
use Response;

class FriendFormRequest extends FormRequest
{
    public function rules()
    {
        return [
            'first_name' => 'required',
            'email_address' => 'required|email'
        ];
    }


	

Self Validating forms !

php namespace App\Http\Controllers;

use App\Http\Requests\FriendFormRequest;
use Illuminate\Routing\Controller;
use Response;

class FriendsController extends Controller
{
    public function getAddFriend()
    {
        return view('friends.add');
    }

    public function postAddFriend(FriendFormRequest $request)
    {
        $this->command('addFriend', \Request::input());
        return Response::make('Friend added!');
    }
}


	

Scheldule your artisans commands

$schedule->command('cache:clear')
     ->hourly()
     ->sendOutputTo($filePath)
     ->emailOutputTo('john@doe.com');

$schedule->command('foo')->dailyAt('15:00');

$schedule->command('foo')->thenPing($url);

$schedule->command('foo')->cron('* * * * *');

$schedule->call(function()
{
    // Do some task...

})->hourly();

	

Unified API for any filesystem

	  	$contents = Storage::get('file.jpg');

	Storage::put('file.jpg', $contents);

	Storage::delete('file.jpg');

	Storage::move('old/file1.jpg', 'new/file1.jpg');

	Storage::copy('old/file1.jpg', 'new/file1.jpg');

	$file = Storage::disk('s3')->get('file.jpg');

	

Cast strings into specific types

/**
 * The attributes that should be casted to native types.
 *
 * @var array
 */
protected $casts = [
    'is_admin' => 'boolean',
    'friends' => 'array',
    'somethingHere' => 'integer',
    'somethingElse' => 'float',
];