Introduction to Laravel 4, Developer Conference - Digital World 2014
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This document introduces Laravel, an PHP web application framework. It summarizes the author's experience working with Java and managing offshore development teams. It then describes a new team of university graduates tasked with building a PHP application within 5-6 months. Laravel was chosen as it is easy to start with, clean in design, allows quick development and deployment, and is well documented. The team was able to complete the project in 3 months. The document recommends using Composer for dependency management in Laravel projects and provides instructions for installing Laravel and running a development server. It also lists local Laravel community resources.
Introduction to Laravel 4, Developer Conference - Digital World 2014
- 2. INTRODUCTION TO form an experienced Java developer
- 3. Who am I ? Started career back in 2005 working with Java and Apache Struts Moved to Spring/Hibernate with frontends like GWT/Flex later on Got busy with managing offshore development house of Vantage A ScrumMaster who enjoys being the Scrum expert of 5 development teams involving php/Java/C,C++/Javascript and whatever needed for our products.
- 4. Joined the Laracon 2014 at NY
- 5. Had lunch with Taylor Otwell there, creator of Laravel
- 6. The Plot A brand new team With freshly baked team members straight out of universities Ready to take on real world challenges but cluelessReady to take on real world challenges, but clueless at the same time about where to start A product that needs to be in production by 5/6 months Needs to be a php application
- 7. Now What ? Needed a framework that is easy to start with Clean and simple in design Quick development and deployment W ll d t dWell documented Has potentiality to grow as maturity of the developers expands Embraces the best practices followed in Java and other development eco systems.
- 8. What do you want from your development environment?
- 9. What do you want from your development environment? Dependency management
- 10. What do you want from your development environment? Dependency management MVC
- 11. What do you want from your development environment? Dependency management MVC Dependency injection / IoC
- 12. What do you want from your development environment? Dependency management MVC Dependency injection / IoC A t S i P idAccess to Service Providers
- 13. What do you want from your development environment? Dependency management MVC Dependency injection / IoC A t S i P idAccess to Service Providers ORM
- 14. What do you want from your development environment? Dependency management MVC Dependency injection / IoC A t S i P idAccess to Service Providers ORM Unit tests
- 15. Composer A PHP dependency manager Dependencies stored in a JSON file composer.json Similar to pom.xml if you are using Maven in Java projectsprojects
- 16. Composer Installing dependencies are as simple as mvn install composer installcomposer install
- 17. Spring MVC
- 18. Laravel MVC
- 19. Did the team deliver? They completed their project in 3 months You can find their work at: http://photowall.digitalsports.com/ Currently it has 4 304 059 media files where 4869Currently it has 4,304,059 media files where 4869 are video files (rest are photo)
- 21. Let’s get dirty (in a good way!) Install composer from getcomposer.org composer create-project laravel/laravel your- project-name --prefer-dist php artisan servephp artisan serve You know what? Let’s open the damn terminal.
- 22. Get in touch with local Laravel Community Must see: https://laracasts.com/ FB/groups/LaravelBangladesh https://www.facebook.com/groups/LaravelBangla Desh/Desh/ Installing Laravel on Ubuntu 13.10 (Bangla) http://go.bdcyclists.com/InstallLaravel