laravel/readme.md

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:

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

Passing Data To Views:

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:

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.