Beginning Laravel: Build Websites with Laravel 5.8. 2 Ed

Table of Contents....5 About the Author....10 About the Technical Reviewer....11 Acknowledgments....12 Introduction....13 Chapter 1: Introduction to Laravel....14 Laravel’s Flexibility....14 How Laravel Works....16 What Is the MVC Pattern?....20 How the MVC Pattern Works....22 Chapter 2: Setting Up Your Environment....24 Composer....24 Installing Composer Globally....25 Installing Laravel Globally....26 Installing Laravel Locally with Composer....27 Introduction to Homestead, Valet, and Forge....29 Forge: Painless PHP Servers....31 Installing VirtualBox and Vagrant....32 Installing Homestead Using Vagrant....38 Configuring Homestead....40 Shared Folders and Homestead....41 Launching the Vagrant Box....44 Homestead and MySQL....47 How to Create a New Laravel Project....50 Chapter 3: Routing, Controllers, Templates, and Views....53 Route Definitions....53 How to Find the Default Route Files....54 Route and RESTful Controller....55 How to List All Routes....55 Creating Controllers, Views, and Managing Routes....60 CRUD and the Seven Methods....63 Models Acts as a Resource....70 Models Act As Resources....73 Resourceful Controllers....74 The Importance of the Resourceful Controller....76 How to Supplement the Resource Controller....76 Getting User Input and Dependency Injection....77 How a Blade Template Works with Controllers and Models....80 Security in Blade....82 Authentication Through Blade....82 Control Structures in Blade....83 Other Advantages of Blade Templates....84 Chapter 4: Working with Models....86 Route Model Binding: Custom and Implicit....86 Implicit Route Binding....89 Custom Route Binding....90 Model Relations....91 How Migrations Work with the Laravel Model....92 Model and Faker Object....103 Examining the Home Page....108 Relations Between Model, Database, and Eloquent....115 Creating Views to Show Relationships....117 Chapter 5: Database Migration and Eloquent....123 Introduction to Migration....123 Introduction to Eloquent....124 Introduction to Eloquent Relations....125 One-to-One....126 One-to-Many....131 Separation of Concerns....138 Many-to-Many....142 Has-Many-Through....146 Polymorphic Relations....152 The Problem....153 The Solution....154 Summarizing All Relations....166 Chapter 6: Handling User Data and Redirects....177 How Redirect Methods Work....178 What Is a Request Object?....182 How Requests and Responses Work....184 Introducing Validation....185 Web Form Fundamentals....191 Using the Laravel HTML and Form Packages....192 Model Binding....196 The Traditional Way of Form Inputs....199 Form Request Validation....212 Chapter 7: Using Tinker....216 Handling a Database Using Tinker....216 SQLite Is a Breeze!....220 Chapter 8: Authentication, Authorization, and Middleware....222 Different Authentication Methods in the Company/Project/Task Management Application....223 How Auth Controller Works and What Auth Middleware Is....237 Middleware, Authentication, and Authorization in One Place....244 The Company App’s Model-View-Controller....250 Home Page, Redirection, and Authentication....264 Role of a User and Authorization....272 Authorization Through the Blade Template....275 Implementing Authorization Using Gates and Policies....288 How Authorization Works....290 How Policies Work....294 Why Are Policies Needed?....296 Chapter 9: Containers and Facades....302 SOLID Design Principle....302 Single Responsibility Principle....303 The Open-Closed Principle....303 Liskov Substitution Principle....304 The Interface Segregation Principle....304 Dependency Inversion Principle....304 Interfaces and Method Injection....305 Contracts vs. Facades....306 How a Container Works in Laravel....310 Containers and Classes....315 Chapter 10: Working with the Mail Template....322 Local Development....322 Using Tinker to Find the Verified E-mail....328 Changing the Route....330 Sending E-mail and Notifications....332 Sending E-mails....333 How to Send Notifications....343 Chapter 11: Events and Broadcasting....349 What Are Events and Broadcasting?....349 Setting Up Events and Broadcasting....350 Creating Events....351 Receiving Messages....365 Autogenerating Events....374 Chapter 12: Working with APIs....375 What Is REST?....375 Creating an API....376 Working with Laravel Passport....393 API Authentication....403 Appendix: More New Features in Laravel 5.8....407 What Is the Dump Server Feature?....407 Improved artisan Command....415 A Few More Additions....418 Renaming the Mail Format Folder....418 Changes to .env....418 Changing the Look of Error Pages....419 Improving Array and String Helper Functions....420 Changes in Caching....420 Where to Go from Here....421 Index....422