Tuesday, 30 July 2013

Laravel : New php framwork

Installation

Install Composer

Laravel utilizes Composer to manage its dependencies. First, download a copy of the composer.phar. Once you have the PHAR archive, you can either keep it in your local project directory or move to usr/local/bin to use it globally on your system. On Windows, you can use the Composer Windows installer.

Install Laravel

Via Composer Create-Project

You may install Laravel by issuing the Composer create-project command in your terminal:

composer create-project laravel/laravel

Via Download

Once Composer is installed, download the latest version of the Laravel framework and extract its contents into a directory on your server. Next, in the root of your Laravel application, run the php composer.phar install (or composer install) command to install all of the framework's dependencies. This process requires Git to be installed on the server to successfully complete the installation.
If you want to update the Laravel framework, you may issue the php composer.phar update command.

Server Requirements

The Laravel framework has a few system requirements:

PHP >= 5.3.7
MCrypt PHP Extension

Configuration

Laravel needs almost no configuration out of the box. You are free to get started developing! However, you may wish to review the app/config/app.php file and its documentation. It contains several options such as timezone and locale that you may wish to change according to your application.

Note: One configuration option you should be sure to set is the key option within app/config/app.php. This value should be set to a 32 character, random string. This key is used when encrypting values, and encrypted values will not be safe until it is properly set. You can set this value quickly by using the following artisan command php artisan key:generate.

Permissions

Laravel requires one set of permissions to be configured - folders within app/storage require write access by the web server.

Paths

Several of the framework directory paths are configurable. To change the location of these directories, check out the bootstrap/paths.php file.

Note: Laravel is designed to protect your application code, and local storage by placing only files that are necessarily public in the public folder. It is recommended that you either set the public folder as your site's documentRoot (also known as a web root) or to place the contents of public into your site's root directory and place all of Laravel's other files outside the web root.

Pretty URLs

The framework ships with a public/.htaccess file that is used to allow URLs without index.php. If you use Apache to serve your Laravel application, be sure to enable the mod_rewrite module.
If the .htaccess file that ships with Laravel does not work with your Apache installation, try this one:

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^ index.php [L]

PHP framework – The Best PHP Framework for 2013

PHP frameworks help you to write clean and reusable code. It follows the MVC pattern, ensuring a clear separation of logic and presentation. But there is a much discussion all around because some prefer performance, some prefer better documentation, some prefer amount of built-in functions etc.

Here in this article we will discuss few top php framework based on it’s popularity and Google Trends from 2012.
Yii vs CodeIgniter vs Zend vs Cakephp Comparison Chart

yiiframework

Statistically, currently yiiframework is the best php framework in the market. The main features that makes Yii on top spot is its features and a bit faster than Codeigniter and Zend framework.

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CodeIgniter

Statistically, Codeigniter comes on second spot. It’s a choice of most of php developer. It’s relatively easy to learn. Feature wise, Codeigniter is powerful frameworks such as Zend and Cake. Its major goal is to enable you to develop projects much faster than you could, by providing a rich set of libraries for commonly needed tasks, as well as a simple interface and logical structure to access these libraries.

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Zend Framework

Statistically, Zend Framework comes on third spot. It’s a powerfull PHP Framework which is more secure, reliable and allow Web 2.0 applications & web services. It is used in building big applications.

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CakePHP

Statistically, CakePHP comes on 4th spot. It’s a popular framework for web application development. It comes comes with a lot of features: code generation, translations, database access, caching, validation, authentication etc.

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PHP Framework

PHP4

PHP5

MVC

Multiple DB's

ORM

DB Objects

Templates

Caching

Validation

Ajax

Auth Module

Modules

EDP

Akelos

ash.MVC

CakePHP

CodeIgniter

DIY

eZ Components

Fusebox

PHP on TRAX

PHPDevShell

PhpOpenbiz

Prado

QPHP

Seagull

Symfony

WACT

WASP

Yii

Zend

ZooP

MVC: Indicates whether the framework comes with inbuilt support for a Model-View-Controller setup.
Multiple DB's: Indicates whether the framework supports multiple databases without having to change anything.
ORM: Indicates whether the framework supports an object-record mapper, usually an implementation of ActiveRecord.
DB Objects: Indicates whether the framework includes other database objects, like a TableGateWay.
Templates: Indicates whether the framework has an inbuilt template engine.
Caching: Indicates whether the framework includes a caching object or some way other way of caching.
Validation: Indicates whether the framework has an inbuilt validation or filtering component.
Ajax: Indicates whether the framework comes with inbuilt support for Ajax.
Auth Module: Indicates whether the framework has an inbuilt module for handling user authentication.
Modules: Indicates whether the framework has other modules, like an RSS feed parser, PDF module or anything else (useful).
EDP: Event Driven Programming.New!

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