Learning Laravel 4 Application Development -- Table of Contents -- Learning Laravel 4 Application Development -- Credits -- About the Author -- About the Reviewers -- www.PacktPub.com -- Support files, eBooks, discount offers, and more -- Why Subscribe? -- Free Access for Packt account holders -- Preface -- What this book covers -- What you need for this book -- Who this book is for -- Conventions -- Reader feedback -- Customer support -- Downloading the example code -- Errata -- Piracy -- Questions -- 1. Welcome to the World of Laravel -- Landing yourself into the MVC world -- Why Laravel 4 is awesome! And why it must be your next framework -- Composer -- Summary -- 2. Let's Begin the Journey -- Installing Laravel 4 on Windows -- Installing Composer -- Installing Laravel 4 -- Installing Laravel 4 on Linux/Ubuntu -- Installing Laravel 4 on Mac -- Exploring the Laravel 4 structure -- Configuring Laravel -- Configuring the Laravel environment -- Configuring the database -- Configuring the application -- Artisan - magic of Laravel 4 -- Generating a boilerplate controller -- Managing database with migrations -- Filling the database with basic data for testing via database seeds -- Running unit tests -- Maintenance mode -- Summary -- 3. Creating a Simple CRUD Application in Hours -- Getting familiar with Laravel 4 -- Controllers versus routes -- Creating a simple CRUD application with Laravel 4 -- Listing the users - read users from database -- Creating new users -- Editing user information -- Deleting user information -- Adding pagination to our list users -- Summary -- 4. Building a Real-life Application with Laravel 4 - The Foldagram -- Preparing the schema -- Setting up the layout -- Setting up the inner pages -- Creating the newsletter section -- Creating a Foldagram form -- Summary -- 5. Creating a Cart Package for Our Application.

Introducing IoC container -- Dependency Injection -- Service providers -- Packages in Laravel 4 -- Package structure -- Facades -- Cart functions -- The Cart class -- Adding Foldagram to the cart -- Updating the cart -- Deleting from cart -- Viewing the cart contents -- Viewing the cart total -- Deleting all items from the cart -- Integrating the Cart package in Foldagram order process -- Adding the Foldagram information to the Foldagram table -- Image resizing in Laravel -- Adding the recipient information to the Recipients table -- Adding the Foldagram order details to our Cart package -- Creating the preview page to preview Foldagram -- Deleting the recipient's information -- Editing the Foldagram information -- Deleting Foldagram from the cart -- Summary -- 6. User Management and Payment Gateway Integration -- Introducing the Sentry package -- Setting up our user section -- Register user -- User login -- The User dashboard -- Change password -- Checkout and payment gateway integration -- Building the checkout page for credit cards -- Integrating Stripe payment gateway -- Creating the checkout order process -- Building the credits section -- Building the view orders section -- Summary -- 7. The Admin Section -- Building the foundation for the administration section -- Creating a login section for the administrator -- Managing orders -- Building the view recipients section -- Building the order details section -- Updating order status -- Deleting orders -- Exporting orders -- Managing Foldagram pricing -- Adding credit for the user -- Managing users -- Adding users -- Editing users -- Deleting users -- Blocking users -- Summary -- 8. Building a RESTful API with Laravel - Store Locator -- REST basics -- A store locator's single page web application -- Creating a REST API in Laravel 4 using Resource Controllers -- Creating a RESTful backend.

Creating an API to view all the stores -- Building an API method for viewing an individual store -- Creating an API method for searching the stores -- Adding a store method to our API -- Updating the store method of our API -- Creating an API method for deleting a store client -- Creating a frontend via a RESTful API -- Summary -- 9. Optimizing and Securing Our Applications -- Handling errors -- Profiling Laravel applications -- Logging data with Laravel -- Security in Laravel -- SQL injections -- CSRF -- XSS (Cross-site scripting) -- Summary -- 10. Deploying Laravel Applications -- Creating production configuration -- Creating a directory structure based on your web host -- Uploading your Laravel application directory files -- Deploying via SSH -- Uploading files via OpenSSH (Linux, Mac) -- Uploading files via Putty (Windows) -- Creating a database in the production site and uploading your local database on the production site -- Giving proper permissions to your storage files -- Setting up .htaccess based on your server -- Deploying via FTP -- Deploying via SSH from the Git repository -- Deploying via FTP from the Git repository -- Summary -- 11. Creating a Workflow and Useful Laravel Packages and Tools -- Creating a workflow -- Introducing JeffreyWay / Laravel-4-Generators -- Summary -- Index.