My (legacy) blog since 2010.
Laravel
Selecting right PHP framework for your next project
08 years
There is no thing best in the world. If something is best, it means, others simply wont exist and if exist, won’t survive.
Same is true for PHP frameworks. Presence of multiple frameworks is proof that no framework is best. So how will we select right framework for our next project?
I am Kapil Sharma, Technical Architect at Eastern Enterprise, with 10.5 years of professional experience in web application development, using different programming languages, CMS & frameworks. This article mainly shows how do I select framework for my next project. Personally I have worked with Zend Framework 1 (not 2), Symfony 1 & 2, Code Ignitor (not working any more), and Laravel 4 & 5. So I might not be the right person to compare all frameworks but it doesn’t stops me selecting right framework for next project, does it?
Please note, this article list down my points for considering framework for next project. There could be many who might not agree with me, and I respect their views.
To keep article short, I am assuming we already selected PHP as programming language and ruled out CMS. So only PHP frameworks are considered in this article.
Laravel learning notes, day 2
09 years
Welcome to the second blog post under Laravel learning notes. In first post, we installed the laravel. If you missed that post, click here to go to day 1.
I am Kapil Sharma, Technical Architect at Eastern Enterprise and working on web technologies since last 10 years. You can find more about me on my personal website kapilsharma.info or contact me through twitter @kapilsharmainfo or contact us from on website.
I am publishing my notes I made for personal reference while learning laravel. Although I do not include very basics of language in my personal notes but since I’m publishing these notes, I’ll add some more basics here for those trying to learn laravel using my notes.
Day 2
Today, we are going to discuss basics of:
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Routes
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Views
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Blade
Views are the part of MVC architecture so if you are not familiar with MVC architecture, please look it on google. MVC basics are out of scope for these notes. (more…)
Laravel learning notes, day 1
19 years
Welcome to the first blog post under Laravel learning notes.
I am Kapil Sharma, Technical Architect at Eastern Enterprise and working on web technologies since last 10 years. You can find more about me on my personal website kapilsharma.info or contact me through twitter @kapilsharmainfo or contact us from on website.
I am publishing my notes I made for personal reference while learning laravel. Although I do not include very basics of language in my personal notes but since I’m publishing these notes, I’ll add some more basics here for those trying to learn laravel using my notes.
Prerequisite
In these notes, I’m going to cover all the basics of laravel but I do expect readers have moderate to good understanding of PHP. Knowing any other MVC framework is not essential but good to have as I’m not going to cover basics of MVC design pattern. If you don’t know or understand MVC, just google it a bit.
Installation
First step while learning anything new is to install the tool, in our case, laravel. We will install laravel through composer. Using laravel (or probably any other PHP project) using homestead or custom vagrant box is recommended in professional development environment but that is currently out of scope for this post.
We mostly use composer to install laravel. Composer is the dependency management tool for PHP. Dependency management tool basically read a configuration file to identify all the project dependencies and install them. Assuming you do not have composer installed, lets first install composer. (more…)
My reply to lot of replies to my tweets
09 years
Please note, I mean no disrespect to anyone, anything. Whatever I said was my thinking from my view point. I don’t feel everyone should/will agree with me. Everyone view is based on multiple factors. This post is about my view, my thoughts and I’m not claiming my thought is correct but yes, they will not change soon.
Why I’m writing this? I recently posted a tweet, tweet was:
Worried about #codeIgniter future, one of my favorite frameworks. Let’s see how it goes ahead. Started learning #laravel for worse case.
While writing it my target audience was just few friends who follow me and occasionally reply. However I was surprised when my mailbox filled with quite a few mail like @xyz replied, @abc retweeted etc. One reply was from Taylor Otwell. His reply was:
@kapilsharmainfo @CodeigniterCMS i think you mean best case? 😉
Those who don’t know him, he is author and lead developer of Laravel; One of the most popular and probably one of the best PHP frameworks right now. I follow Taylor, his site, blogs, twitter; I’m his fan and wanted to be like him. Still Taylor, sorry but it was not typo. I mean worse case. Please, let me explain.
There were few other replies as well, few of them were:
Learning Laravel is the best case scenario. I came from CI and Zend. Laravel is much better.
Coming from CI myself I must agree
worst case? That’s upgrading mate…
Yes I agree with everyone. Developer within me agrees. Professionally I’m Technical Architect in a software company, I as Technical architect agree. This month only, I’d taken few official sessions about Coding standards, Code Sniffer and Test driven development. Laravel, as I read at many places, is one of the best examples of TDD. How can I disagree with anyone of you? Yes, I agree with everyone.
But after office hours, I’ve one more personality. I’m weekend developer. As weekend developer, I work on quite a few personal client projects, some personal projects. These projects are not enterprise apps, but apps that are targeted to be finished during 1-3 weekends. Weekend developer within me does not agree with any of you.