Laravel: From Apprentice To Artisan

by Taylor Otwell

Written by the creator of Laravel, this is the definitive guide to advanced application development with Laravel 4. Learn about dependency injection, interfaces, service providers, SOLID design, and more while exploring practical, real-world code examples. Whether you're building a robust, large application with the Laravel framework, or just want to sharpen your software design chops, this book will be of great value to you and your team.

Genres: Programming, Technology

67 pages, ebook

First published September 4, 2013

About the author

Taylor Otwell is the creator of the popular Laravel PHP framework, and has a strong interest in software craftsmanship and design. His framework, Laravel, has become one of the most popular open-source PHP projects in the world, and is used by thousands of developers to rapidly build robust web applications.

Reviews

[Mohamed Amin · Rating 5 out of 5]

I think every php developer must read this book, specially who used to use laravel as a framework, I liked that laravel creator himself wrote it and he is talking about laravel behind the hood and usually we don't see such kind of these books.
he talked about how to understand the echo system of laravel and explained IOC in a great way and of course service provider.
then talked about clean code and how to build scalable application.
he finshed his book talking about famous principles "SOLID Principles" and how to apply by example.
i think he summarize his ideas and philosophy to write clean, neat, scalable, testable code.

[Joris W. van Rijn · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great short read, even today, now that Laravel has progressed much. The discussed concepts are interesting for, and easily applicable in, other languages as well.

[Ossy · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great read, a must read for every Laravel developer.

[Nagham Al Halabi · Rating 5 out of 5]

I found this small book to be quite rich in information. I've read it twice now and it gave me deeper understanding of the Laravel framework. The examples are really great and having the author referring to actual code used in building the framework made the read even more interesting. I really recommend this book, though it might be a bit outdated, to all those who are willing to look under the hood and have a deeper understanding of the framework.

[Luicfer69 · Rating 5 out of 5]

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[Watheq]

كتب مهم ومفيد جدا في فهم بعض المفاهيم الأساسية في لارافل
مثل
dependency injection و Inversion of control container و service provider

والتي بفهمها سينجلي الكثير من الغموض في فهم التصميم البرمجي لإطار عمل لارافل..

ثم يأتي الجزء الأقل أهمية وهو جزء شرح مبادئ
SOLID
وهذه المبادئ ستجدونها مشروحة في كثير من الأماكن خارج الكتاب.. والكتاب صغير حيث لا يتعدى ٧٠ صفحة..

وعلى الرغم من أن الكتاب يتحدث عن النسخة الرابعة من لارافل وأنا أثناء قراءتي للكتاب صارت لارافل في نسختها العاشرة إلا أن المفاهيم السابقة لم تتغير فهي في صلب إطار العمل نفسه.. وفهمها سيساعد كثيرا على التعامل مع إطار العمل بمستوى أعلى..

وإذا قرأت هذه المفاهيم ولم تفهمها جيدا فلا بأس من مراجعة مفاهيم البرمجية الكائنية
OOP
والعودة لهذه المفاهيم سواء من الكتاب أو من غيره..

[Boyan · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is an example of a small book packed with amazing content.

The concepts presented in the book are quite complex if you hear about them for the first time, but they are explained so clearly that it's a breeze to get a good understanding from this tiny book.

Also I was very pleasantly surprised to see that it's neither a mirror of the framework's documentation nor just another practical example of how to use the framework.

[Carl · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great into to SOLID and to Taylor's way of thinking, if you're going to be doing much in Laravel I highly recommend reading this book as it will help you understand the framework. Despite the title I wouldn't try to read this book if you've never worked with Laravel before. Check out Laracasts for great intro (and advanced) topics.

[Ammar Alakkad · Rating 5 out of 5]

Rich with useful information. very recommended to any PHP developer.

[Diego Hernandes · Rating 5 out of 5]

67 pages of power, that will quickly put all the SOLID thinking direct in your brain. Don't you miss it

[David · Rating 5 out of 5]

excellent book. really changed the way i write code, not just in php

[Ahmed Elbshry · Rating 4 out of 5]

most of code snippets available under the laravel documentation BUT
it's perfect for the developer who want to know about SOLID principle or
developer who want to be artisan in laravel

[Mark · Rating 4 out of 5]

A good start to a potentially great book.