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[ 1 ] Mastering Laravel Develop robust modern web-based software applications and RESTful APIs with Laravel, one of the hottest PHP frameworks Christopher John Pecoraro BIRMINGHAM - MUMBAI Mastering Laravel Copyright © 2015 Packt Publishing All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embedded in critical articles or reviews. Every effort has been made in the preparation of this book to ensure the accuracy of the information presented. However, the information contained in this book is sold without warranty, either express or implied. Neither the author, nor Packt Publishing, and its dealers and distributors will be held liable for any damages caused or alleged to be caused directly or indirectly by this book. 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ISBN 978-1-78528-502-8 www.packtpub.com Credits Author Project Coordinator Christopher John Pecoraro Shweta H Birwatkar Reviewers Proofreader Kevin Coyle Safis Editing Js Lim Chinmoy Maity Indexer Hemangini Bari Commissioning Editor Sarah Crofton Graphics Sheetal Aute Acquisition Editor Tushar Gupta Production Coordinator Nitesh Thakur Content Development Editor Sumeet Sawant Cover Work Nitesh Thakur Technical Editors Ankur Ghiye Saurabh Malhotra Narsimha Pai Copy Editors Roshni Banerjee Trishya Hajare Vedangi Narvekar Rashmi Sawant About the Author Christopher John Pecoraro is an experienced web application developer born near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. After earning his BS. degree in computing and information science at Saint Vincent College in 1999, the majority of his career has centered around web application development in both the United States and Europe. He is a conference speaker, open source contributor, and an author. His research work includes biomedical informatics and machine translation, and he is a coauthor of several peer-reviewed publications. His native language is English and he speaks fluent Italian; he has visited many countries, and his noncareer interests are travel and cuisine. About the Reviewers Kevin Coyle has been developing web applications for nearly 10 years. With a keen interest in all technological things, he has become a polyglot for various programming languages. In the past, he has led the Drupal/PHP development in one of the largest telecommunications companies in the UK and has run his own small development agency specializing in people in the media. I would like to thank my family for putting up with me through the late nights while I was reviewing this book and my work colleagues for advising me to put the time in to do the review. Of course, most of all, I would like to thank my pet beagle, Archer, who, without fail, never ceases to make me smile. Js Lim had totally no idea about programming back in 2008. He started to pick up programming when doing an assignment at Tunku Abdul Rahman college, Malaysia, using the C programming language. Then, in 2011, he entered into a company as an internship trainee. This was the first time he studied PHP. His company was using two frameworks: one was an in-house framework, which was quite messy, and the other one was CodeIgniter. At that moment, the in-house framework needed to be refactored; thus, he and his team managed to code the AdoDB ORM plugin into that and changed it to an MVC design, which took quite some time. He is very fresh and is always looking for new things to learn. He saw his supervisor using Ubuntu and Vim, and he followed that the rest of the staff was using Windows and Notepad++. He is now a Vim lover. After his graduation, he joined a company that was into developing enterprise projects using ColdFusion. After working there for 3 months, he left due to the technologies used. He joined a company named Werebits, which was a start-up. This company was doing an in-house project, ChopInk, which is a kind of loyalty program. The technology behind this was LAMP stack-hosted on Amazon EC2, Zend Framework 1. After a few months, the company took a project, which he chose to use Zend Framework 2 on, and took some time to finish the project. Later on, the CEO decided to migrate ChopInk to another framework. He was assigned the task of choosing a better framework; after some research, he decided to use Laravel 4. Up until now, Laravel is still the best framework for him as well as to the Werebits team. At some point, he was approached by a college friend to join a company named Weavary Connection as a partner; he then got the technology over, which was the Laravel framework. Chinmoy Maity is a programmer, entrepreneur, and loves to write code for a living. He graduated in 2010 with a BSc in computer science with a first-class grade. He completed has MCA (master of computer application) degree in 2013 with a first-class grade and was awarded a gold medal. He has been working in the web development industry for the last two and a half years (mostly with start-ups). Since 2007, he has been coding, and this has become his profession—he is a backend developer. He is always excited to learn new technologies, write new code, and learn new programming languages. He is an expert in building core PHP and PHP framework-based applications. Other than being good at frontend (such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, AJAX, responsive designing, and so on), he does development too. Besides all his professional work, he works on a few hobby projects that are related to Android and robotics. www.PacktPub.com Support files, eBooks, discount offers, and more For support files and downloads related to your book, please visit www.PacktPub.com. 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Dogni mirada tua est una prenda, virtude chi possedis naturale Table of Contents Preface vii Chapter 1: Designing Done Right with phpspec 1 A new era 2 A leaner app 3 PSR 3 Installing and configuring Laravel 3 Installation 4 Configuration 4 Namespacing 4 TDD done right 5 PHPUnit 5 phpspec 5 Entity creation 6 The MyCompany database schema 7 Designing with phpspec 7 Specifying with phpspec 9 Red, green, refactor 12 Tidying things up 14 Controllers 18 The command bus 20 Summary 22 Chapter 2: Automating Tests – Migrating and Seeding Your Database 23 Using Laravel's migration feature 23 An example of migration 24 Creating the table 25 The Laravel migration magic 26 $table->timestamps(); 26 [ i ] Table of Contents From schema to migration 28 Composer's require-dev command 28 Laravel's providers array 28 The composer update command 29 Generating the migrations 29 Migration anatomy 31 List tables 31 The softDelete and timestamp properties 31 Creating seeds 32 Database testing with PHPUnit 35 Running PHPUnit 38 Functional testing with Behat 40 Summary 48 Chapter 3: Building Services, Commands, and Events 49 Request routing 49 User stories 51 User stories to code 52 The controller 53 Searching for the room 53 Controller to command 54 Command to event 55 The ReserveRoomCommandHandler class 57 Event to handler 58 Queued event handlers 59 The waiting list command 60 The queued commands 61 The console command 62 The command scheduler 66 Summary 67 Chapter 4: Creating RESTful APIs 69 RESTful APIs in Laravel 69 Essential CRUD 70 Bonus features 71 Controller creation 71 CRUD(L) by example 73 cRudl – read 74 crudL – list 74 Pagination 76 Crudl – create 76 crUdl – update 77 cruDl – delete 78 [ ii ] Table of Contents Model binding 78 Read revisited 79 List revisited 79 Update revisited 79 Delete revisited 80 Moving beyond CRUD 80 Nested controllers 81 Accommodation hasMany rooms 82 Room belongsTo accommodation 82 Eloquent relations 84 Nested update 84 Nested create 84 Eloquent model casting 85 Route caching 86 Summary 87 Chapter 5: Using the Form Builder 89 History 89 Installing the HTML package 91 Building web pages with Laravel 92 The master template 92 An example page 94 From static HTML to static methods 96 The form tag 97 The text input field 98 The label