Laravel 5 Cheatsheet

Create New Project

mkdir my-project-name
cd my-project-name
composer create-project laravel/laravel . --prefer-dist

To make sure you have the necessary packages on Ubuntu 16.04, you may need to run:

sudo apt update && \
sudo apt install -y php7.0-mbstring php7.0-xml

Running Locally

You can test locally by running:

sudo php -S localhost:80 public/index.php

Then just go to localhost in your browser.

Routing

There are several routing files under the top level routes directory:

• api.php - routes for an API.
• channels.php - for websockets and broadcasting.
• console.php - routes for if you are building a CLI application.
• web.php - routes for a traditional web application that isn't an API.

There are two main ways to define a route. The first is by actually passing a callback that gets executed.

Route::get('/', function () {
    return view('welcome');
});

The alternative "shorthand" is to pass a string that represents the controller and method to execute.

Route::get('/my/web/path', 'MyController@method');

Official routing docs.

Artisan CLI Tool

Create A Controller

php artisan make:controller MyController

Create a RESTful Resource Controller

php artisan make:controller MyController --resource

Create Model

php artisan make:model MyModel

Run Migrations

php artisan migrate

Database Migrations

• Database migrations can be found under database/migrations.
• By default, you will have two migrations in there that create the users and password_resets tables.
• Migration filenames are prefixed with the year, month, day, and time in order for the migration tool to know which order to run the migrations.
  • Using the date/time rather than an incrementing integer should hopefully reduce the likelihood of an issue arising when merging two different branches that each created a migration script.

Create A Migration

The following command will create a migration script in your migrations table for creating a table called x.

php artisan make:migration create_x_table

If you don't use create_tableName_table naming convention, then you won't get the starting code within the up/down methods for creating/destroying the table.

Using Raw SQL

If you need use raw SQL, you can just use DB::statement() like below:

public function up()
{
    $createTableQuery = 
        "CREATE TABLE `broker` (
            `id` int unsigned NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
            `name` varchar(255) NOT NULL,
            `redirect_url` text NOT NULL,
            `secret` varchar(30) NOT NULL,
            `modified_timestamp` timestamp DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP ON UPDATE CURRENT_TIMESTAMP,
            PRIMARY KEY (`id`)
        ) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8";

    DB::statement($createTableQuery);
}

Run Migrations

You can execute migrations with:

php artisan migrate

If you're just getting started, don't forget to edit the .env file with your database connection details.

Models

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Views

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Controllers

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