Table of Contents

Recipes providing solutions to finding additional Laravel help.

• Finding Documentation
• The Laravel Community

Recipes providing instructions on setting up your development environment.

• Installing VirtualBox
• Installing Vagrant
• Creating a Vagrant Box
• Installing Composer
• Installing MySQL
• Installing Apache
• Installing Nginx
• Installing Laravel
• Provisioning Vagrant with a Shell Script
• Installing APC
• Installing Memcached
• Installing Redis
• Installing XCache
• Installing SQLite

Recipes dealing with general Laravel configuration and the configuration of the machine running Laravel applications.

• Editing the Hosts File
• Creating an Apache VirtualHost
• Creating a Nginx VirtualHost
• Environment Specific Configurations
• Detecting the Environment with a Closure
• Using Environment Specific Start Files
• Changing the Storage Path
• Changing Storage Path Permissions
• Using a PSR-0 Directory Structure
• Creating a Helpers File
• Where to Keep Your Application Bindings

Recipes dealing with basic Laravel development. Topics like creating projects, setting up routes, basic controller usage, and so forth.

• Creating a Laravel Project
• Managing Your Project With Git
• Managing Your Project With Subversion
• Understanding the Request Lifecycle
• Understanding Pluralization Rules

Recipes dealing with Laravel's App facade

• Checking Your Environment
• Checking if You're Running in the Console
• Storing a Value in the IoC Container
• Binding an Interface to an Implementation
• Resolving Objects from the IoC Container
• Registering a Before Application Filter
• Registering an After Application Filter
• Registering a Shutdown Callback
• Calling the Registered Shutdown Callbacks
• Checking if the Application is Booted
• Registering Booting or Booted Callbacks
• Registering HttpKernel Middleware
• Removing Middleware from the Application
• Checking if the Application is Down for Maintenance
• Registering a Maintenance Mode Handler
• Getting the Application Bootstrap File
• Registering a Service Provider With the Application
• Registering a Finish Callback
• Determining if the Application is Ready for Responses
• Throwing HttpExceptions
• Registering a 404 Error Handler
• Registering an Error Handler
• Registering a "Last Chance" Error Handler
• Registering an Error Handler for Fatal Errors
• Getting the Current Application Locale
• Set the Current Application Locale
• Getting the Default Request Class
• Setting the Request for the Console Environment
• Calling a Static Method on the Default Request Class

Recipes dealing with Laravel's Artisan command

• Displaying Laravel's Change Log
• Displaying the Current Environment
• Listing Your Routes
• Clearing the Compiled Class
• Optimizing the Framework for Better Performance
• Putting the Application in Maintenance Mode
• Bringing the Application Out of Maintenance Mode
• Creating the Migration Repository
• Creating a New Migration
• Running Database Migrations
• Rolling Back the Last Database Migration
• Rolling Back All Database Migrations
• Resetting and Re-running All Migrations
• Seeding Your Database
• Creating a Migration for Sessions
• Creating a Migration for Password Reminders
• Clearing Expired Password Reminders
• Creating a Reminders Controller
• Creating a New Package Workbench
• Clearing the Application Cache
• Publishing a Package's Configuration to Your Application
• Publishing a Package's Views to Your Application
• Publishing a Package's Assets to Your Public Directory
• Interacting With Your Application
• Tailing a Log File on a Remote Server
• Running PHP's Built-in Web Server
• Generating a New Application Key
• Creating a New Artisan Command

Recipes dealing with Laravel's Auth facade

• Changing Your Authentication Driver
• Changing Your Authentication Model
• Changing Your Authentication Table
• Changing the View For Password Reminders
• Changing the Password Reminder Expiration
• Changing Your Password Reminder Table
• Artisan Password Reminder Commands
• Determining if the Current User is Authenticated
• Determining if No User is Logged In
• Accessing the Current User
• Determine if the User Was Authenticated Via the Remember Cookie
• Creating an Instance of the Auth Database Driver
• Creating an Instance of the Auth Eloquent Driver
• Logging a User In Without Sessions or Cookies
• Validating a User's Credentials
• Attempting to Authenticate Using Basic Auth
• Performing a Stateless HTTP Basic Login
• Attempting to Authenticate with Credentials
• Listening for Authentication Attempts
• Manually Logging a User In
• Manually Logging a User by ID
• Logging in a User by ID Without Sessions or Cookies
• Logging the User Out of Your Application
• Getting the Cookie Jar Used for Authentication
• Setting the Cookie Jar Used for Authentication
• Getting the Remember Me Cookie Name
• Getting the Cookie Name Used for Authentication
• Getting the Currently Cached Authenticated User
• Setting the Currently Authenticated User
• Getting the Event Dispatcher for Authentication
• Setting the Event Dispatcher for Authentication
• Getting the Authentication Request Instance
• Setting the Request Instance for Authentication
• Getting the Authentication User Provider
• Setting the Authentication User Provider
• Getting the Session Store Used for Authentication

Recipes dealing with the Blade template engine

• Using Blade Layouts to Extend Templates
• Outputting the Content of a Blade Section
• Displaying a Variable in a Blade Template
• Using @if Control Structures in Blade
• Using the @unless Control Structure in Blade
• Using Comments in Blade Templates
• Using @for Control Structures in Blade
• Using @foreach Control Structures in Blade
• Using @while Control structures in Blade
• Including a Blade Template within another Template
• Rendering a View For Items in a Collection
• Yielding the Current Section in a Blade Template
• Starting to Inject Content into a Blade Section
• Stopping Injecting Content Into a Section
• Stopping Injecting Content into a Section and Appending It
• Stopping Injecting Content into a Section and Overwriting
• Pulling in the Content of a Parent Section in Blade
• Setting the Content Tags Blade Uses
• Setting the Escaped Content Tags Blade Uses
• Outputting a Translation in a Blade Template
• Outputting a Translation With Pluralization in a Blade Template
• Knowing All the Blade Template Commands
• Assigning a Variable in a Blade Template

Recipes dealing with Laravel's Cache facade

• Setting Up the File Cache Driver
• Setting Up the Database Cache Driver
• Setting up the APC Cache Driver
• Setting up the Memcached Cache Driver
• Setting up the Redis Cache Driver
• Setting up the Array Cache Driver
• Setting up the WinCache Cache Driver
• Setting up the XCache Cache Driver
• Organizing Your Cache into Sections
• Determining if an Item Exists in the Cache
• Getting a Cache Driver Instance
• Getting All Created Cache Drivers
• Getting the Cache Prefix Value
• Retrieving an Item From the Cache
• Storing an Item in the Cache
• Storing an Item in the Cache if it Doesn't Exist
• Retrieving an Item from the Cache or Storing a Default
• Storing an Item in the Cache Forever
• Getting an Item from the Cache or Storing a Default Forever
• Removing an Item from the Cache
• Incrementing the Value of an Item in the Cache
• Decrementing the Value of an Item in the Cache
• Removing All the Items From the Cache
• Using a Cache Key Prefix

Recipes dealing with Laravel's Config facade

• Determining If a Configuration Value Exists
• Determining If a Configuration Group Exists
• Retrieving a Specific Configuration Value
• Setting a Specific Configuration Value
• Retrieving All the Configuration Items

Recipes dealing with Laravel Controllers.

• Registering Before Filters On a Controller
• Registering After Filters On a Controller
• Retrieving a Controller's Before and After Filters

Recipes dealing with Laravel's Cookie component.

• Creating a new Cookie
• Retrieving a Cookie from the Request

Recipes dealing with Laravel's Crypt component.

• Encrypting a Value
• Decrypting a Value
• Setting the Encryption Key
• Setting the Encryption Cypher
• Setting the Encryption Mode
• Understanding Where Laravel Uses Encryption

Recipes dealing with Laravel's File facade.

• Determining If a File Exists
• Getting the Contents of a File
• Getting the Contents of a Remote File
• Getting the Return Value of a File.
• Requiring a File Once
• Writing the Contents of a File
• Prepending to a File
• Appending to a File
• Deleting a File
• Moving a File to a New Location
• Copying a File to a New Location
• Extracting a File Extension From a Path
• Getting the Type of a File
• Getting the Size of a File
• Getting a File's Last Modification Time
• Determining if a Path is a Directory
• Determining if a File or Directory is a Writable
• Determining if a Path is a File
• Finding Files Matching a Pattern
• Getting a List of All Files in a Directory
• Getting All the Files Recursively From a Directory
• Getting All the Directories in a Directory
• Creating a Directory
• Copying a Directory From One Location to Another
• Recursively Deleting a Directory
• Emptying a Directory of All Files and Folders

Recipes dealing with Laravel's Form facade.

• Opening a New HTML Form
• Creating a New Model Based Form
• Closing the Current Form
• Generating a Hidden Field With the CSRF Token
• Creating a Form Label Element
• Creating a Password Input Field
• Creating a Text Input Field
• Creating a Hidden Input Field
• Creating an Email Input Field
• Creating a URL Input Field
• Creating a File Input Field
• Creating a Form Input Field
• Creating a Textarea Input Field
• Creating a Select Box Field
• Creating a Select Range Field
• Creating a Select Year Field
• Creating a Month Selection Field
• Creating a Checkbox Input Field
• Creating a Radio Button Input Field
• Creating a Reset Input Field
• Creating an Image Input Element
• Creating a Submit Button
• Creating a Button Element
• Getting the ID Attribute For a Field Name
• Getting the Value Attribute a Field Should Use
• Getting a Value From the Session's Old Input
• Determining if the Old Input is Empty
• Getting the Session Store
• Setting the Session Store Implementation
• Getting the Select Option for a Value

Recipes dealing with Laravel's Hash facade.

• Hashing a Value

Recipes dealing with Laravel's HTML facade.

• Converting a HTML String to Entities
• Decoding HTML Entities to a String
• Generating a Link to a Javascript File
• Generating a Link to a CSS File
• Generating an HTML Image Element
• Generating a HTML Link
• Generating a Secure HTML Link
• Generating a HTML Link to an Asset
• Generating a Secure HTML Link to an Asset
• Generating a HTML Link to a Named Route
• Generating a HTML Link to a Controller Action
• Generating a HTML Link to an Email Address
• Obfuscating an Email Address
• Generating an Ordered List of Items
• Generating an Unordered List of Items
• Bulding an HTML Attribute String From an Array
• Obfuscating a String

Recipes dealing with Laravel's Lang facade.

• Getting the Translation for a Key
• Determining if a Translation Exists
• Getting a Translation Using Pluralization Rules
• Getting the Default Locale Being Used
• Setting the Default Locale
• Parsing a Language Key into its Components
• Adding a New Namespace to the Message Loader
• Getting the Translation Message Selector
• Setting the Translation Message Selector
• Listening for Locale Changes

Recipes dealing with setting up and configurating databases with Laravel.

• Setting up the MySQL Database Driver
• Setting up the SQLite Database Driver

Recipes dealing with Extending Laravel's Core Components

• Using Your Own Authentication Driver
• Creating Form Macros
• Creating HTML Macros
• Changing the Default Request Class
• Extending Blade Templates
• Using Your Own Cache Driver

Recipes dealing with Service Providers

• Creating a Simple Service Provider

Recipes dealing with Laravel's Middleware

• Understanding What Middleware Is
• Creating a Simple Middleware Class

Recipes dealing with Packages Provided by 3rd Parties

• Speeding up Development with Generators