Аннотация

I’ve spent the vast majority of my professional career (20 years and counting) immersed in the PHP language. During this time I’ve written eight PHP-related books, including a few bestsellers.
Along the way I’ve worked on dozens of PHP-driven applications for clients ranging from unknown startups to globally-recognized companies, penned hundreds of articles about PHP and web development for some of the world’s most popular print and online publications, and personally trainedhundredsofdevelopersonvariousPHP-relatedtopics.Inshort,overthespanoftwodecades I’ve pretty much seen it all when it comes to PHP.
So it might come as a surprise to some that I’ve never been more immersed in the language than right now. The PHP community and project ecosystem has never been stronger than it is today, offering an incredible number of libraries, frameworks, and tools which allow PHP developers to build more complicated web applications faster than they ever have before. And at least at the time of this writing there is no more popular PHP project on the planet than the Laravel framework.
Over the past several years I’ve worked on multiple large Laravel projects for a variety of clientele.
Among others these projects include a REST API for an incredibly popular iOS and Android app, an e-commerce application for selling subscription-based services, and a huge intranet application for a South American agricultural concern. I can say without hesitation that these projects have ranked among the most entertaining and fulfilling in my career, and that sentiment has largely to do with the incredible power and productivity Laravel bestows upon its users.
This book summarizes all of the hard-won knowledge and experience I’ve amassed building these Laravel projects, and indeed that accrued building web applications of all shapes and sizes over the past two decades. By its conclusion, you’ll have gained a well rounded understanding of Laravel’s many features, and along the way will have been introduced to many best practices pertaining to code organization, testing, and deployment. I can’t wait to get started!