The following content is the sixth chapter of my new e-book titled “Laravel: my first framework“. This writing is copyright by Maksim Surguy. Unauthorized copy and distribution of this material is prohibited. Chapter 6. Database Operations This chapter covers Configuring Laravel to use a database Introduction to Query Builder and Eloquent ORM Using Query Builder operators for […]
The following content is the fifth chapter of my new e-book titled “Laravel: my first framework“. This writing is copyright by Maksim Surguy. Unauthorized copy and distribution of this material is prohibited. Chapter 5. Understanding Controllers This chapter covers Default controllers Creating new controllers Controller routing RESTful and Resource Controllers When the code of the application […]
The following content is the fourth chapter of my new e-book titled “Laravel: my first framework“. This writing is copyright by Maksim Surguy. Unauthorized copy and distribution of this material is prohibited. Chapter 4. Views This chapter covers Basics of views and templates Passing data to views Blade template engine View layouts HTML helpers Most modern […]
The following content is the third chapter of my new e-book titled “Laravel: my first framework“. This writing is copyright by Maksim Surguy. Unauthorized copy and distribution of this material is prohibited. Chapter 3. Routing This chapter covers Basics of routing Passing parameters to routes Route filters Grouped and named routes Redirects When you come to […]
The following content is the second chapter of my new e-book titled “Laravel: my first framework“. This writing is copyright by Maksim Surguy. Unauthorized copy and distribution of this material is prohibited. Chapter 2. Getting started for Development with Laravel This chapter covers Installing Laravel with Composer Meeting Artisan: the command line interface Understanding structure of […]
The following content is the first chapter of my new e-book titled “Laravel: my first framework“. This writing is copyright by Maksim Surguy. Unauthorized copy and distribution of this material is prohibited. Chapter 1. Meeting Laravel This chapter covers: An introduction to Laravel 4 PHP framework History of Laravel framework Advantages of using Laravel Developing a […]
As you might know, for the past year and a few months I have been working on another book for web developers, called “Laravel in Action”. That book was scheduled to be launched in print by this upcoming fall. Due to the current trends in the market of PHP books and lower-than-expected pre-launch sales of the […]
The following content is a free chapter of my bestselling book, Integrating Front End Components with Web Applications. Please do not re-publish this content without my permission. Chapter 8 – Integrating Date Pickers This chapter covers: Theory behind date pickers Practical examples of date pickers in action Using Pickadate open source library for a date picker […]
Over the past few months I have been working on two books, one is about development with Laravel framework and one about integrating modern front end components and libraries into web applications. Today I am happy to announce that one of the books (the latter one) is scheduled for official release on Leanpub on Friday, July […]
In this blog post I will summarize my experience attending Laracon US 2014, the annual conference held for Laravel and PHP web developers in United States. I will share my expectations, most memorable moments, lots of photos and links from the conference. Expectations Laracon was my first web development conference. While I never attended a […]
The following post is my personal review of a new e-Book by PHP Town Hall co-host Ben Edmunds being released today on Leanpub. I’ve had the honor of getting a copy of the book before it is officially released and have read it all in order to have a more or less complete review. Short description […]
Yesterday Ryan Tablada organized a Google Hangout in which Matt Staffer, me (Maks Surguy), Jake Chapman, and Alex Dover were discussing CMSs built with Laravel and the future of such systems. You can watch our discussion here and also read the conversation on Google+ (link on the bottom of this post): Before the discussion, I had […]