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Creating a Basic ToDo Application in Laravel 5 – Part 4

Posted February 5th, 2015 (Updated 28 Mar 2015) in PHP

Welcome back to my simple to-do application tutorial for Laravel 5. This tutorial is relatively long so I’ve broken it up into multiple posts.

The source for each part can also be found on GitHub.

So far we’ve learned how to install and set up Laravel, set up some project and task nested resources and display them to the user. Create, edit and delete functionality has also been implemented. In this chapter we’ll finish things off by adding form validation.

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Creating a Basic ToDo Application in Laravel 5 – Part 3

Posted February 5th, 2015 (Updated 1 Apr 2015) in PHP

Welcome back to my simple to-do application tutorial for Laravel 5. This tutorial is relatively long so I’ve broken it up into multiple posts.

The source for each part can also be found on GitHub.

So far we’ve learned how to install and set up Laravel, set up some project and task resources and displayed them to the user. In this chapter we’ll learn how to set up create, edit and delete pages/actions.

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Creating a Basic ToDo Application in Laravel 5 – Part 2

Posted February 5th, 2015 (Updated 7 Aug 2015) in PHP

Welcome back to my simple to-do application tutorial for Laravel 5. This tutorial is relatively long so I’ve broken it up into multiple posts.

The source for each part can also be found on GitHub.

So far we have a working database complete with seed data and a bunch of routes for displaying, editing and deleting our projects and tasks. In this second chapter I’ll cover controllers, models (with relationships), views (including the blade templating language and layouts) and route model binding.

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Creating a Basic ToDo Application in Laravel 5 – Part 1

Posted February 5th, 2015 (Updated 13 May 2015) in PHP

With the release of Laravel 5, there have been a bunch of backwards incompatible changes, new features added as well as the usual influx of new users so I thought I’d take the time to redo my basic to-do application with Laravel 5. The app covers a wide range of concepts, links to relevant learning material where possible and should make for a great introduction to the framework.

This tutorial is relatively long so I’ve broken it up into multiple posts.

The source for each part can also be found on GitHub.

Today will cover installation, configuration, artisan, migration, seeding and routes.

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How to Install Illuminate/HTML In Laravel 5

Posted February 5th, 2015 (Updated 19 Dec 2015) in PHP

Laravel 4 contained a Form helpers package called HTML but it was removed from 5 to cut down on cruft. HTML is still available as a first party package though so below are instructions on getting it back.

First require it in:

1	composer require "illuminate/html":"5.0.*"

Next up add the service provider and aliases. Open /config/app.php and update as follows:

'providers' => [
	...
 
	'Illuminate\Html\HtmlServiceProvider',
],
 
'aliases' => [
 
	...
 
	'Form'=> 'Illuminate\Html\FormFacade', 
	'Html'=> 'Illuminate\Html\HtmlFacade',
],

That’s it. To confirm it’s working use the following:

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php artisan tinker
> Form::text('foo')
"<input name=\"foo\" type=\"text\">"

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Using illuminate/queue outside of Laravel

Posted May 24th, 2014 in PHP

I’ve been wanting to use iron.io queues with Illuminate/Queue and despite claiming otherwise in its readme, this doesn’t actually work with the provided example code – instead simply resulting in

Fatal error: Uncaught exception ‘ReflectionException’ with message ‘Class encrypter does not exist’ in /vendor/illuminate/container/Illuminate/Container/Container.php on line 485

I’ve tried numerous times to get a fix from Taylor and ignored/given the runaround every time. I even submitted a pull request with the solution but it was closed without merge or explanation.

Anyway, to ACTUALLY use iron.io with illuminate/queue outside of laravel, the following lines of code are required:

$queue->getContainer()->bind('encrypter', function() {
	return new Illuminate\Encryption\Encrypter('foobar');
});
$queue->getContainer()->bind('request', function() {
	return new Illuminate\Http\Request();
});

Drop them below $queue->addConnection and you’re good to go. Here’s complete example file:

require 'vendor/autoload.php';
 
use Illuminate\Queue\Capsule\Manager as Queue;
use Carbon\Carbon;
 
$queue = new Queue;
 
$queue->addConnection(require __DIR__.'/config/queue.php');
 
// Make this Capsule instance available globally via static methods... (optional)
$queue->setAsGlobal();
 
$date = Carbon::now()->addMinutes(2);
$queue->getContainer()->bind('encrypter', function() {
	return new Illuminate\Encryption\Encrypter('foobar');
});
$queue->getContainer()->bind('request', function() {
	return new Illuminate\Http\Request();
});
Queue::push($date, 'EmailTest', array('foo' => 'bar'));
 
class EmailTest
{
	public function fire($job, $data)
	{
		mail('my@email.com', 'hiya', $data['foo']);
	}
}

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Creating a Basic ToDo Application With Laravel 4 – Part 4

Posted December 2nd, 2013 (Updated 5 Feb 2015) in PHP

Welcome back to my simple to-do application tutorial for Laravel 4. This tutorial is relatively long so I’ve broken it up into multiple posts.

So far we’ve learned how to install and set up Laravel, set up some project and task nested resources and display them to the user. Create, edit and delete functionality has also been implemented. In this chapter we’ll finish things off by adding form validation and slug management.

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Creating a Basic ToDo Application With Laravel 4 – Part 3

Posted December 2nd, 2013 (Updated 5 Feb 2015) in PHP

Welcome back to my simple to-do application tutorial for Laravel 4. This tutorial is relatively long so I’ve broken it up into multiple posts.

So far we’ve learned how to install and set up Laravel, set up some project and task resources and display them to the user. In this chapter we’ll learn how to use Laravel 4 Generator’s form helpers and set up create, edit and delete pages/actions for our resources.

Before you Begin

If you’re a Laracasts member, watch the videos RESTful Forms and Create/Edit Forms. These videos explain far better and in far more detail the concepts below. If you’re serious about learning Laravel I’d highly recommend you sign up.

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Creating a Basic ToDo Application With Laravel 4 – Part 2

Posted December 2nd, 2013 (Updated 5 Feb 2015) in PHP

Welcome back to my simple to-do application tutorial for Laravel 4. This tutorial is relatively long so I’ve broken it up into multiple posts.

So far we have a working database complete with test data and a bunch of routes for displaying, editing and deleting our projects and tasks. In this second chapter I’ll cover controllers, models (with relationships), views (including the blade templating language and layouts) and route model binding.

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Creating a Basic ToDo Application With Laravel 4 – Part 1

Posted December 2nd, 2013 (Updated 5 Feb 2015) in PHP

Laravel may be one of the younger frameworks out there but it’s making ripples in the PHP world. The following post teaches how to build a basic to-do application in Laravel 4. It covers a wide range of concepts, links to relevant learning material where possible and should make for a great introduction to the framework.

This tutorial is relatively long so I’ve broken it up into multiple posts.

Today will cover installation, configuration, artisan, migration, seeding and routes.

Before you Begin

Before you begin there are a few great resources you should check out.

You won’t get far in the Laravel world without hearing about Jeffrey Way. Jeffrey has perhaps done more for the Laravel community than any other non-core developer. He has produced high-quality, comprehensive video tutorials on almost every aspect of L4, many of which are free to view and aimed at beginners. I would highly recommend you check out the following pieces of his work:

Laravel 4 Mastery – although older (from the L4 beta days), it’s mostly still relevant. Aimed at beginners and quite comprehensive
Laravel From Scratch – in many ways an updated version of Laravel 4 Mastery. Not as comprehensive but a great compliment to the above
Laracasts – Mostly paid for videos of very high quality. New videos are regularly created and one a week is made free.

There are a few other places to find news and information:

The Laravel Twitter feed – for the latest breaking news on L4 development
Laravel.io – Weekly roundups that gather the latest news and tutorials from around the web. They also do a weekly podcast that often includes the framework author Taylor Otwell
Laravel Packages Registry – good place to go to find some of the best L4 packages
Code Bright – An e-book provided free of charge by framework author Dayle Rees

Project Aim

Our to-do application will consist of one or more projects, each with its own list of tasks. You will be able to create, list, modify and delete both tasks and projects.

In this lesson we will go through:

Installing and setting up Laravel 4
Installing extra packages that will make development easier
Using migrations and seeds
Learning how to use resourceful controllers
Learning how to use views (including the blade templating language and content layouts
Handling model relations