readme.md

This is a Fork of the original Laravel Quickstart for Pagodabox

It's fully prepared to run on Pagodabox using a sqlite database, or after editing the Boxfile a mysql database.

Working with memcached as cache and session driver (Remember to use php artisan key:generate).

You can change any configuration needed for the Pagoda enviroment on the application/config/production folder.

Also this Quickstart comes with some bundles intalled for faster develompent:

Bootstrapper For using Twitter bootstrap with Laravel.

Bob For easly creating new models, controllers, views, etc...

Date For a more easy date manipulation.

It also comes with spanish translation files (Work in progress).

Laravel Quickstart for Pagodabox

Get a copy of Laravel running on Pagodabox in seconds.

Based on the Boxfile method from: http://forums.laravel.com/viewtopic.php?id=890

Official Laravel Website & Documentation

Official Pagodabox Website & Documentation

Usage

• Install the quickstart on Pagodabox
• Clone the repo on your machine
• Open up Boxfile and modify the web1 name

web1: name: YOUR_APP_NAME

Features

• Laravel 3.2.10

Readme from laravel repo:

Laravel - A PHP Framework For Web Artisans

Laravel is a clean and classy framework for PHP web development. Freeing you from spaghetti code, Laravel helps you create wonderful applications using simple, expressive syntax. Development should be a creative experience that you enjoy, not something that is painful. Enjoy the fresh air.

Official Website & Documentation

Feature Overview

• Simple routing using Closures or controllers.
• Views and templating.
• Driver based session and cache handling.
• Database abstraction with query builder.
• Authentication.
• Migrations.
• PHPUnit Integration.
• A lot more.

A Few Examples

Hello World:

<?php

Route::get('/', function()
{
	return "Hello World!";
});

Passing Data To Views:

<?php

Route::get('user/(:num)', function($id)
{
	$user = DB::table('users')->find($id);

	return View::make('profile')->with('user', $user);
});

Redirecting & Flashing Data To The Session:

<?php

return Redirect::to('profile')->with('message', 'Welcome Back!');

Contributing to Laravel

Contributions are encouraged and welcome; however, please review the Developer Certificate of Origin in the "license.txt" file included in the repository. All commits must be signed off using the -s switch.

git commit -s -m "this commit will be signed off automatically!"

License

Laravel is open-sourced software licensed under the MIT License.