Why use Laravel?

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 […]

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What’s new in Laravel 4

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 […]

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Building RESTful API in Laravel – part 3 – Integration with BackboneJS

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/ […]

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Building RESTful API in Laravel – part 2 – Design API Controller

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. […]

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Laravel Udemy Course offer

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 […]

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Laravel AJAX example source code

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 […]

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Laravel VS Ruby on Rails.

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 […]

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