Table Of ContentLaravel 5 Cookbook
Enhance Your Amazing Applications
Nathan Wu
©2015-2016NathanWu
Contents
Book Information
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BookDescription . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
WhatYouWillGet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
BookStructure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Feedback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Translation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
BookStatus,ChangelogandContributors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Changelog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
CurrentVersion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Laravel 5 Cookbook
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Chapter1:BackEndRecipes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
ProjectFiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
ListOfRecipes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Recipe1-IntroducingCLI(CommandLineInterface) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Recipe2-AllAboutGit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Recipe3-BuildALaravelStarterApp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Recipe4-CreateAUserAuthenticationSystemwithFacebookandSocialite . . . . . . . 31
Recipe5-CreateAUserAuthenticationSystemUsingLaravelAuthScaffold . . . . . . . 42
Recipe6-ImageUploadInLaravel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Recipe7-SeedingYourAppUsingFaker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Recipe8-Pagination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Recipe9-TestingYourApp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Recipe10-WritingAPIswithLaravel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Chapter2:FrontEndRecipes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
ListOfRecipes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Recipe201-Notifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
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Recipe202-IntegratingButtonsWithBuilt-inLoadingIndicators . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
Recipe203-CreateARegistrationPageUsingAJAXandjQuery . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Recipe204-CreateALoginPageUsingAJAXAndjQuery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
Recipe205-UploadFilesUsingAJAXAndjQuery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
Recipe206-CroppingImagesUsingjQuery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
Chapter3:DeploymentRecipes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
ListOfRecipes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
Recipe301-DeployingyourapplicationsusingDigitalOcean(PHP7andNginx) . . . . . 185
Recipe302-DeployingyourapplicationsusingHeroku . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200
Recipe303-DeployingyourapplicationsblazinglyfastusingGIT . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208
Book Information
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Book Description
If you’re looking for a book that can help you to build amazing web applications, this is the book
foryou!AimedatpeoplewhohavesomeexperiencewithLaravel,thiscookbookhasyourback!
There are many proven code rich recipes for working with Laravel. Each recipe includes practical
advice, tips and tricks for working with jQuery, AJAX, JSON, API, data persistence, complex
applicationstructure,modularPHP,testing,deploymentandmore.
ThinkaboutthisbookasacollectionofallpremiumLaraveltutorialsorthesuccessortothepopular
LearningLaravel5book.
Laravel 5 Cookbook also includes tested code that you can download and reuse in your own
applications.You’llsavetime,learnmoreaboutLaravelandotherrelatedtechnologiesintheprocess.
We also have a forum for discussion and debate. You can freely ask any questions, provide your
valuablefeedbackandhelpothers.
It’stimetodiscoverLaravelmore!
Requirements
The projects in this book are intended to help people who have grasped the basics of PHP and
HTML to move forward, developing more complex projects, using Laravel advanced techniques.
ThefundamentalsofthePHPandLaravelarenotcovered,youwillneedto:
• ReadLearningLaravel5book.(optional)
• HaveabasicknowledgeofPHP,HTML,CSSandLaravel.
• LoveLaravel.
What You Will Get
• Lifetimeaccesstotheonlinebook.(PremiumOnly)
• Digitalbooks:PDF,MOBI,EPUB(PremiumOnly)
• Fullsourcecode(PremiumOnly)
• Accessnewchaptersofthebookwhileit’sbeingwritten(PremiumOnly)
• Acommunityof20000+studentslearningtogether.
• Amazingbundlesandfreebiestohelpyoubecomeasuccessfuldeveloper.
• iPhone,iPadandAndroidAccessibility.
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BookDescription 3
Book Structure
Note:Thisisadraftversion.Thisbookisstillunderactivedevelopment,thatmeanssomechapters
anditscontentmaychange.Thebookalsomayhavesomeerrorsandbugs.Foranyfeedback,please
sendusanemail.Thankyou.
Chapter 1 - Back End Recipes
Building APIs and large applications using modern technologies can be a daunting task. In this
chapter,you’lllearnbestpracticesandmoderntechniquesforback-enddevelopment,startingwith
anintroductiontothecommandlineandGit.
These complete, easy-to-use recipes show you how to use cookies, sessions, web storage and some
popularLaravelpackages.You’llalsolearnaboutwritingAPIsanddebuggingtechniques.
In addition to mastering the technologies, you’ll understand when they’re needed and how to use
them.
Chapter 2 - Front End Recipes
Whether you are a beginner or intermediate web developer, if you wish to make good interactive
webapplications,thenthischapterisforyou.
In this chapter, you’ll be getting some recipes about front-end web technologies and popular front-
end tools. These recipes cover best practices and modern techniques for front-end development
such as: integrating Twitter Bootstrap, AJAX loading, notifications, cropping images, file uploads
andmanymore.
By the end, you should have a better understanding of how to work with AJAX, Jquery, front end
frameworks and responsive design. You can apply these techniques to build beautiful applications
andaddthatinteractivitytoanysiteyouworkon.
Chapter 3 - Deployment Recipes
After learning some tricky topics to successfully build a full stack application, it’s time to deploy
your app. This chapter contains some helpful recipes about working with Heroku, Digital Ocean,
etc.
Deploy your applications blazingly fast using GIT and secret techniques are also discussed in the
book!
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Changelog
Current Version
Latestversionthebook:
• Version:0.20
• Status:Complete(BetaVersion)
• Updated:May15th,2016
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