Laravel: my first framework. Chapter 4 – Views

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 […]

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Laravel: my first framework. Chapter 3 – Routing

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 […]

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Laravel: my first framework. Chapter 2 – Getting started for Development with Laravel

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 […]

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In-place Pagination using Backbone.js and Laravel (shop tutorial #4)

This tutorial is one more addition to my “Building a shop with Laravel” tutorial series. In the previous tutorial, I showed you how to implement very nice “Smart search” feature using Selectize.js plugin to make user experience a bit nicer: https://maxoffsky.com/code-blog/laravel-shop-tutorial-3-implementing-smart-search/ When I develop web applications, I care a lot about the user experience and […]

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Laravel Shop tutorial #1 – Building a review system

The first tutorial in “Building a shop” series is going to be a practical example of implementing a rating/review system into an application. Review systems or rating systems are very common in all kinds of e-Commerce projects, social networks, anything that requires user’s input to be some sort of concrete value on some scale. DEMO: http://demos.maxoffsky.com/shop-reviews Source […]

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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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