FINDING

form a lost advanced beginner of Java

Who am I ?

Started career back in 2005 working with Java and Apache StrutsMoved to Spring/Hibernate with frontends like GWT/Flex later on/Got busy with managing offshore development house of VantageA manager who feels like rip van winkle as he is trying to get back to active development

Best way to get back ?

Getting busy with a productCompany had a new product development requirement which required working with phpframeworksThus I met Laravel, a framework I think heavily influenced by best practices from Java (and other leading standard frameworks)

Disclaimer

I’m not an expert on Laravel (yet)

… I’m learning …

What do you want from your development environment?

What do you want from your development environment?

Dependency management

What do you want from your development environment?

Dependency managementMVC

What do you want from your development environment?

Dependency managementMVCDependency injection / IoC

What do you want from your development environment?

Dependency managementMVCDependency injection / IoCA t S i P idAccess to Service Providers

What do you want from your development environment?

Dependency managementMVCDependency injection / IoCA t S i P idAccess to Service ProvidersORM

What do you want from your development environment?

Dependency managementMVCDependency injection / IoCA t S i P idAccess to Service ProvidersORMUnit tests

Composer

A PHP dependency managerDependencies stored in a JSON file composer.jsonSimilar to pom.xml if you are using Maven in Java projectsprojects

Composer

Installing dependencies are as simple as

mvn installcomposer installcomposer install

Spring MVC

Laravel MVC

Dependency Injection

Just like Spring Core/Context, foundation of Laravel is its powerful IoC containerSupports decoupling web layer from data layer completelyp y

Dynamic service provider injection?

As Bootstraper Laravel register IoC container bindings for the Service ProvidersLaravel lazy loads service providers for requests, improves performancep p

Framework also supports

One of the most powerful features of the Laravelcontainer is its ability to automatically resolve dependencies via reflectionSupport for singleton instancespp gEloquent ORM makes dealing with database easy and descriptiveUnit test through phpunit

Easy framework to pick up

Coming from a Spring/Java background it seemed natural and easy for me to pickup Laravel internals and best practices suggested by the developersIf any of you look forward to do a project on php, I y y p j p p,strongly suggest looking into Laravel framework, you won’t be disappointed.

Application I’m working with

Photowall: http://photowall.digitalsports.comChotJoldi (Open Source): https://github.com/mozammel/chot-joldi

Get in touch with local Laravel Community

FB/groups/LaravelBangladeshhttps://www.facebook.com/groups/LaravelBanglaDesh/