Beginning Laravel Build Websites with Laravel 5.8 — Second Edition — Sanjib Sinha Beginning Laravel Build Websites with Laravel 5.8 Second Edition Sanjib Sinha Beginning Laravel Sanjib Sinha Howrah, West Bengal, India ISBN-13 (pbk): 978-1-4842-4990-1 ISBN-13 (electronic): 978-1-4842-4991-8 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4991-8 Copyright © 2019 by Sanjib Sinha This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. Trademarked names, logos, and images may appear in this book. 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Table of Contents About the Author ..................................................................................................... xi About the Technical Reviewer ............................................................................... xiii Acknowledgments ...................................................................................................xv Introduction ...........................................................................................................xvii Chapter 1: Introduction to Laravel ............................................................................ 1 Laravel’s Flexibility ........................................................................................................................ 1 How Laravel Works ....................................................................................................................... 3 What Is the MVC Pattern? ........................................................................................................ 7 How the MVC Pattern Works .................................................................................................... 9 Chapter 2: Setting Up Your Environment ................................................................ 11 Composer .................................................................................................................................... 11 Installing Composer Globally ................................................................................................. 12 Installing Laravel Globally ...................................................................................................... 13 Installing Laravel Locally with Composer .............................................................................. 14 Introduction to Homestead, Valet, and Forge .............................................................................. 16 Forge: Painless PHP Servers ................................................................................................. 18 Installing VirtualBox and Vagrant ........................................................................................... 19 Installing Homestead Using Vagrant ...................................................................................... 25 Configuring Homestead ......................................................................................................... 27 Shared Folders and Homestead ............................................................................................ 28 Launching the Vagrant Box .................................................................................................... 31 Homestead and MySQL ......................................................................................................... 34 How to Create a New Laravel Project ......................................................................................... 37 v TABLE OF CONtENtS Chapter 3: Routing, Controllers, Templates, and Views .......................................... 41 Route Definitions ......................................................................................................................... 41 How to Find the Default Route Files ...................................................................................... 42 Route and RESTful Controller ................................................................................................ 43 How to List All Routes ............................................................................................................ 43 Creating Controllers, Views, and Managing Routes .................................................................... 48 CRUD and the Seven Methods ............................................................................................... 51 Models Acts as a Resource ................................................................................................... 58 Models Act As Resources ...................................................................................................... 61 Resourceful Controllers ............................................................................................................... 62 The Importance of the Resourceful Controller ....................................................................... 64 How to Supplement the Resource Controller ........................................................................ 64 Getting User Input and Dependency Injection ............................................................................. 65 How a Blade Template Works with Controllers and Models ........................................................ 68 Security in Blade ................................................................................................................... 70 Authentication Through Blade ............................................................................................... 70 Control Structures in Blade ................................................................................................... 71 Other Advantages of Blade Templates ................................................................................... 72 Chapter 4: Working with Models ............................................................................ 75 Route Model Binding: Custom and Implicit ................................................................................. 75 Implicit Route Binding ........................................................................................................... 78 Custom Route Binding ........................................................................................................... 79 Model Relations .......................................................................................................................... 80 How Migrations Work with the Laravel Model ....................................................................... 81 Model and Faker Object ........................................................................................................ 92 Examining the Home Page .................................................................................................... 97 Relations Between Model, Database, and Eloquent .................................................................