Beginning Laravel: Build Websites with Laravel 5.8. 2 Ed

Table of Contents....5

About the Author....10

About the Technical Reviewer....11

Acknowledgments....12

Introduction....13

Chapter 1: Introduction to Laravel....14

Laravel’s Flexibility....14

How Laravel Works....16

What Is the MVC Pattern?....20

How the MVC Pattern Works....22

Chapter 2: Setting Up Your Environment....24

Composer....24

Installing Composer Globally....25

Installing Laravel Globally....26

Installing Laravel Locally with Composer....27

Introduction to Homestead, Valet, and Forge....29

Forge: Painless PHP Servers....31

Installing VirtualBox and Vagrant....32

Installing Homestead Using Vagrant....38

Configuring Homestead....40

Shared Folders and Homestead....41

Launching the Vagrant Box....44

Homestead and MySQL....47

How to Create a New Laravel Project....50

Chapter 3: Routing, Controllers, Templates, and Views....53

Route Definitions....53

How to Find the Default Route Files....54

Route and RESTful Controller....55

How to List All Routes....55

Creating Controllers, Views, and Managing Routes....60

CRUD and the Seven Methods....63

Models Acts as a Resource....70

Models Act As Resources....73

Resourceful Controllers....74

The Importance of the Resourceful Controller....76

How to Supplement the Resource Controller....76

Getting User Input and Dependency Injection....77

How a Blade Template Works with Controllers and Models....80

Security in Blade....82

Authentication Through Blade....82

Control Structures in Blade....83

Other Advantages of Blade Templates....84

Chapter 4: Working with Models....86

Route Model Binding: Custom and Implicit....86

Implicit Route Binding....89

Custom Route Binding....90

Model Relations....91

How Migrations Work with the Laravel Model....92

Model and Faker Object....103

Examining the Home Page....108

Relations Between Model, Database, and Eloquent....115

Creating Views to Show Relationships....117

Chapter 5: Database Migration and Eloquent....123

Introduction to Migration....123

Introduction to Eloquent....124

Introduction to Eloquent Relations....125

One-to-One....126

One-to-Many....131

Separation of Concerns....138

Many-to-Many....142

Has-Many-Through....146

Polymorphic Relations....152

The Problem....153

The Solution....154

Summarizing All Relations....166

Chapter 6: Handling User Data and Redirects....177

How Redirect Methods Work....178

What Is a Request Object?....182

How Requests and Responses Work....184

Introducing Validation....185

Web Form Fundamentals....191

Using the Laravel HTML and Form Packages....192

Model Binding....196

The Traditional Way of Form Inputs....199

Form Request Validation....212

Chapter 7: Using Tinker....216

Handling a Database Using Tinker....216

SQLite Is a Breeze!....220

Chapter 8: Authentication, Authorization, and Middleware....222

Different Authentication Methods in the Company/Project/Task Management Application....223

How Auth Controller Works and What Auth Middleware Is....237

Middleware, Authentication, and Authorization in One Place....244

The Company App’s Model-View-Controller....250

Home Page, Redirection, and Authentication....264

Role of a User and Authorization....272

Authorization Through the Blade Template....275

Implementing Authorization Using Gates and Policies....288

How Authorization Works....290

How Policies Work....294

Why Are Policies Needed?....296

Chapter 9: Containers and Facades....302

SOLID Design Principle....302

Single Responsibility Principle....303

The Open-Closed Principle....303

Liskov Substitution Principle....304

The Interface Segregation Principle....304

Dependency Inversion Principle....304

Interfaces and Method Injection....305

Contracts vs. Facades....306

How a Container Works in Laravel....310

Containers and Classes....315

Chapter 10: Working with the Mail Template....322

Local Development....322

Using Tinker to Find the Verified E-mail....328

Changing the Route....330

Sending E-mail and Notifications....332

Sending E-mails....333

How to Send Notifications....343

Chapter 11: Events and Broadcasting....349

What Are Events and Broadcasting?....349

Setting Up Events and Broadcasting....350

Creating Events....351

Receiving Messages....365

Autogenerating Events....374

Chapter 12: Working with APIs....375

What Is REST?....375

Creating an API....376

Working with Laravel Passport....393

API Authentication....403

Appendix: More New Features in Laravel 5.8....407

What Is the Dump Server Feature?....407

Improved artisan Command....415

A Few More Additions....418

Renaming the Mail Format Folder....418

Changes to .env....418

Changing the Look of Error Pages....419

Improving Array and String Helper Functions....420

Changes in Caching....420

Where to Go from Here....421

Index....422

Develop cutting-edge websites and applications using the new features of Laravel 5.8. This book starts with an introduction to Laravel and takes a glance at its newly introduced features. Moving on to setting up your development environment, you will learn how the composer works. In addition to this, you will be introduced to Valet, Homestead, Virtual Box, Vagrant, and Forge in Laravel. With this foundation, you will be ready to get started writing your first Laravel apps.

To do so, you will learn to manage routes and controllers and how the Blade template works. Moving on to models, you will work with route model binding and get to know the relationship between models, databases, and Eloquent. Along the way you will define methods on your Eloquent model classes using different types of relationships. 

Shifting focus to handling user data, you will see how redirect methods work. You will also get to know the inner workings of requests and responses. Continuing the data theme, Beginning Laravel covers basic and grouped artisan commands and how to handle databases with Tinker. By being able to handle data effectively, your applications will come alive for your users, giving them the functionality they need.

The last section of the book handles core concepts such as sending emails, alerting users via notifications, and implementing SOLID design principles. You will see how to decouple your application classes by using events and listeners. 

You will:

• Protect your app with authentication and authorization
• Build a complex relationship between entities using Eloquent models
• Take advantage of containers and facades
• Use the mail template
• Create and configure events
• Work with Laravel Passport
• Deploy API authentication
• Discover new Laravel 5.8 features such as dump server and email verification