If you wanted to, you could build a pretty substantial application and never make use of a controller. How could this be? Well, we saw in our introduction to basic routing and views that we can pass a closure to the second argument of a Route::get() request. The drawback is that pretty soon, you are going to have a routes file the size of Manhattan, and that is probably not ideal.…
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How To Get Started With Eloquent In Laravel
Eloquent makes use of the Active Record pattern adored by software developers far and wide. Active Record was originally named by the software developer Martin Fowler when he discussed it in his book titled Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture. It is a pattern where an Object maps to a table in a database. The object’s properties usually correspond to the columns in the given table. It’s a convenient and easy to use pattern, and Eloquent is a great version of active record.…
How To Use The Laravel Query Builder
We’re moving forward with Laravel and so far we have a good grasp of routing, views, and we have also set up our environment with a database connection. We also included phpMyAdmin as a graphical front end to the database so that manually working with tables and data is easy. Recall that in our passing data to views tutorial, we simply hard coded the data in the Closure of our routes file.…
Getting Your Database Set Up For Use With Laravel
Now that we’ve covered the most simple introduction to Laravel, let’s take a moment to get ready to work with a database so we can make use of the Query Builder or Eloquent. You have many options to choose from such as sqlite, pgsql, redis, and mysql. MySql is far and away the most used option, so that is what we’ll look at here. In addition, we can work with the database via the command line, or from a graphical user interface such as phpMyAdmin.…
How To Pass Data To Views In Laravel
In this tutorial, we’ll start looking at how we can take variable data, and pass it to our views to be rendered in the Browser. This approach adheres to the Model View Controller architecture. In this most recent series of tutorials on Laravel, we have not yet talked about Models that typically deal with retrieving data, but we have covered the basics of Routing and Views.…