Why I <3 Laravel 4
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Laravel 4 is a PHP framework that leverages Symfony components and follows PSR-2 standards. It requires PHP 5.3 and uses features like dependency injection and Composer. While CodeIgniter is easy to learn, Laravel 4 has a larger community and more addons available. The framework has evolved over time from CodeIgniter and Kohana to Symfony and now Laravel 4, which stays lightweight while providing flexibility.
Why I <3 Laravel 4
- 1. Why I <3 Laravel 4 @philsturgeon
- 3. Use DIFFERENT frameworks for DIFFERENT things.
- 4. APIs Silex, Slim, etc Backend/Frontend Laravel, Symfony, FuelPHP, Zend Framework, etc CLI/Workers Python?
- 9. Example* *buy my software
- 10. PyroCMS CodeIgniter = EASIEST FRAMEWORK EVER Anyone can pick it up Anyone can make an addon I make $ when those addons are sold
- 11. Barriers to entry suck Smaller community Elitist douchebags Less addons Less money No beer
- 12. CodeIgniter != Laravel CodeIgniter supports PHP 5.2 I don’t care about PHP 5.2 PHP 5.3 is my new base version Laravel 4 uses PHP 5.3 extremely well Composer + PSR-2 = Double Rainbow
- 14. Framework Evolution CodeIgniter Symfony Kohana FuelPHP Laravel 3 Laravel 4
- 16. Leveraging Symfony Well tested Framework agnostic Enough new wheels Incredibly flexible
- 17. Leveraging other stuff Swift Mailer - Mail to all the things Monolog - Log to all the things Doctrine Common - Fuck knows, but yay * All PSR-2
- 21. Staying light $ cloc . 32 text files. 28 unique files. 50 files ignored. http://cloc.sourceforge.net v 1.56 T=1.0 s (22.0 files/s, 1100.0 lines/s) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Language files blank comment code ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PHP 21 181 637 264 XML 1 0 0 18 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SUM: 22 181 637 282 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------