As discussed in my last article How to choose a PHP Framework?, there are lots of php framework and i prefer Laravel – The PHP Framework For Web Artisans for my next project just because of following reasons:
Ease of setup: Up and running with laravel is super easy, you can install it using composer or by using installer
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//Using composer composer create-project laravel/laravel --prefer-dist // Using laravel installer composer global require "laravel/installer laravel new projectname |
That’s it, laravel is ready for your next project.
Routing: The framework for web artisan has incredibly simple routing approach which provides easy authentication for different kind of modules in our project eg. blog can be access publicly but dashboard containing private and sensitive data must be access after authenticating users, laravel handles such kind of situation with super easy configuration in routing. Also, it provides mechanism to validate the url params within the routing system using regular expressions thus securing our project to a great extent.
Eloquent ORM: Eloquent ORM, provided with ActiveRecord implementation for interacting with sql and nosql databses like mysql, mongodb etc.Eloquent ORM works quite fast and we have to write very less code to use it.For every table a model is created and the core logic goes in controller eg.
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// Retrieve a model by its primary key $user = App\User::find(1); // Getting first user whose user_id is 98746 $user = App\Flight::where('user_id', 98746)->first(); |
Caching: Laravel comes with inbuilt support of file and database based caching which supports two of the most popular databases for caching i.e. redis and memcached.Storing and removing data from cache is as easy as you think.
API(Application Programming Interface): We can create API’s that can power our mobile and web application without making much fuss, one can create super flexible, scalable and industry standard api with the resourceful controller.
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// It creates api's to create,fetch,delete,update a user details Route::resource('user', 'UserController'); |
Artisan: It is the command line interface bundled with laravel which provides various userful commands to speed up your development cycle.eg.
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// List all registered routes php artisan routes // Following command will create a Project Controller with default actions php artisan make:controller ProjectController |
Blade Template Engine: Blade has unique feature of inheritance and sections. Inheritance means you can extend a layout easily and with the use of sections, each part of a page can be individually handled by some other developer without interrupting in others code.
Other features: Laravel is bundled with lots of features which helps a developer to “Write Less And Do More”.Facades,validation,authentication, form handling, session and cookie security,3rd party library inclusion, templating engine and many more makes Laravel a robust,easy to maintain, secure, easy to code and highly scalable php framework.
All in all, this is the framework for web artisans, deploy it and start creating something awesome.