What is Laravel? Why should any PHP developer care about it? A few days ago I had to present at a local PHP Meetup in Fullerton, CA. I spoke about Laravel framework and why it will be the future of PHP frameworks (and that future is already here). Below I have that presentation from my […]
I created this presentation for a Laravel Meetup that I organized. It explains what’s changed in Laravel v4 over v3 and brings up some nice examples of using new features. Check it out : And the transcript of it is below: laravel 4 What’s old?What’s new? by Maks Old: Clean and Eloquent syntax. Separation of […]
I’ve noticed that some people are having trouble using Backbone fetch function to pass parameters to their PHP applications. In this very short post I’m going to fix that and demonstrate how to pass a query parameter during backbone fetch call so that the PHP application (running Laravel) will return specific data. For example the […]
Login with AJAX – including PhoneGap apps Oh God. For a few weeks I was researching what is a good way to login to a Laravel web app via AJAX and it turns out I was over-preparing for some problems that after all weren't even there. Example – you made a web app in Laravel […]
For those of you who haven’t been following this blog – I am posting a short series of tutorials that guide you through creating a simple API in Laravel 3 and integrating it with a client application – in this case TodoMVC BackboneJS application (see screenshot below). Part 1 of the tutorial is here : https://maxoffsky.com/code-blog/building-restful-api-in-laravel-start-here/ […]
In the previous tutorial (https://maxoffsky.com/code-blog/building-restful-api-in-laravel-start-here/) I shared the basics of RESTful controller structure and a route that we will need to build a RESTful web application. As promised, in this tutorial we will explore how exactly to make our API work with our data. We will explore a simple Todo list application as and example. […]
Over the past few weeks I’ve been very busy learning basics of Backbone – an MV* framework for Javascript because it simplifies creation of one page applications (great for mobile devices!). In just two weeks I built a working mobile app for the company I’m working for, and soon it will be released to Android […]
Hi friends! As you might know, I really like Laravel PHP framework and I love telling others about it. I built http://bootsnipp.com from scratch in 4 days with Laravel and want others to get to know such great framework. I have finished creating my Laravel course on Udemy and I decided to give every one of my […]
The source code is available here: https://github.com/msurguy/laravel-ajax-example AJAX examples using Laravel and Bootstrap AJAX See live demo at Pagodabox deployed code This is a demo of simplifying AJAX calls withing Laravel application using Bootstrapper Bundle and Bootstrap-ajax extension The source code features are : replace content via AJAX calls append content via AJAX calls Form submittal and displaying result […]
Since a lot of people come to this blog searching for the answer if Laravel is better than Ruby on Rails, I will post a short biased comparison of the two, and I will tell why they shouldn’t be compared. I had started developing web applications about two years ago in one of my classes […]
I am taking a little break from writing my “Make a Blog in Laravel” tutorial, i feel like majority of information is already there, just will need some more examples of deployment and what to accomplish next. Today I will write about how to make deployment of Laravel applications quicker, how to develop with Laravel […]