Laravel 4.0 Released
github.comThere's also a Laravel 4 book released today. It's Laravel: Code Bright (https://leanpub.com/codebright) by Dayle Rees, a member of the Laravel core team.
It's the featured book on the Leanpub homepage (https://leanpub.com/) right now, and it's doing really well.
(Disclosure: Leanpub cofounder here.)
kinda expensive but i guess price will drop since it just got released :)
the Minimum is too expensive... i got the Jeff book instead... thkx however :)
Yeah, I forgot to mention https://leanpub.com/laravel-testing-decoded which is an oversight on my part! Laravel 4 is #1 and #2 on Leanpub for the past week, just because of today!
As of now the official 4.0 docs are still on http://four.laravel.com/
Another book released today: Laravel Testing Decoded, by Jeffrey Way - https://leanpub.com/laravel-testing-decoded
I really liked the static method shortcuts Laravel has for almost everything. Too bad it's almost as slow as Symfony, because it uses so many of it's (great) components.
Does anyone have any benchmarks?
I've only made a couple of sites using Laravel but I actually really like it and haven't hit any performance bottlenecks yet.
Personally I like to follow coding standards when writing app in given framework, so I always start with looking at what they look like and I find that very often there is something that I personally find off e.g. in lavarels case they use tabs for indentation or classes have braces in the same line as class name, but not methods. Other than that project looks great!
I dont understand... L4 follows the standard... your standard however must be off. Also PHP-Fig has recommended tabs over spaces.
> Also PHP-Fig has recommended tabs over spaces.
Great! I have always ignored that part of the spec. Tabs rule.
That's what I said, that I personally find off. Just an opinion.
If you haven't tried Laravel 4, now is the TIME!
How does this compare to other PHP frameworks?
It's very easy to get going with and to learn.
It has good documentation (available here[0] for version four) and the code is filled with comments if the documentation isn't enough.
It uses "Eloquent ORM" which makes it so easy to handle data with Active Record.
RESTful controllers makes it easy to handle the request.
And much more, which is why you need to read the documentation to understand why it's different.
Easier to develop for thanks to the great syntax, but unfortunately slower than everything except symfony.
my take: - easy to use / learning curve is not steep - very well documented - contains the basics (no do-it-all overblown class library like Zend)
Troll
Who let you into the PHP party?
The fonts are very hard to read on the webpage, how to fix this? maybe text-rendering will help?
No HTML::script :(
I never liked html-generating methods anyway (it makes escaping more difficult) so personally i'm quite happy if there are fewer of them.