Laravel

1. Information

See Introduction To OOP PHP | Object Oriented PHP Tutorial For Beginners.
See Laravel PHP Framework Tutorial for Beginners | Laravel for Complete Beginners.

See http://codebright.daylerees.com/code-bright for documentation.
See https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-set-up-apache-virtual-hosts-on-ubuntu-12-04-lts.
See http://weblogs.asp.net/fbouma/soft-deletes-are-bad-m-kay.
Note: Note that we do not tell Eloquent which table to use for our User model. The lower-case, plural name of the class will be used as the table name unless another name is explicitly specified. So, in this case, Eloquent will assume the User model stores records in the users table.

2. Installation

Installation of Laravel 5:

See https://laravel.com/docs/5.5/installation
Install XAMPP.
Install Composer.
Log in as <user>.

Start Terminal.

composer global require laravel/installer

Setup XAMPP to work with Laravel.
Edit the php.ini file. (see YouTube video at 16 min).

cd
sudo apt-cache search php7
sudo apt-get install php7.#-mbstring
sudo apt-get install php7.#-xml
sudo apt-get install php7.#-zip
sudo apt-get install tree
composer global require "laravel/installer"
echo PATH=\$PATH:$HOME/.composer/vendor/bin >> $HOME/.bashrc
? echo PATH=\$PATH:$HOME/.composer/vendor/bin >> /etc/bash.bashrc
source $HOME/.bashrc
? source /etc/bash.bashrc
which laravel
laravel --version
laravel new <project>
tree <project>
vdir <project>
cd <project>

php artisan serve

Browse to http://localhost:8000.

sudo ln -s `pwd`/smru-anc-application/src /var/www/html/anc-app
sudo ln -s $HOME/<project>/public /var/www/html/laravel
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart                # Optional

Browse to http://localhost/laravel.

? sudo chown $USER:$USER $HOME/<project>/storage
? sudo chown -R $USER:$USER $HOME/<project>/storage
? sudo chown $USER:$USER $HOME/<project>/bootstrap/cache
? sudo chown -R $USER:$USER $HOME/<project>/bootstrap/cache

Type composer create-project laravel/laravel laravel-5 dev-develop and press Enter.
Close Terminal.

3. Installation of Laravel 4

Install Composer.
Log in as delta.

sudo apt-get install php5-mcrypt
sudo service apache2 restart
sudo composer self-update
mkdir -p ~delta/github/git/delta-software-labs
cd ~delta/github/git/delta-software-labs
composer create-project laravel/laravel ANC-Application --prefer-dist
* .....
cd ~delta/github/git/delta-software-labs/ANC-Application

# Optional.
composer install
composer update


sudo useradd --shell /bin/false --system --uid 900 web
sudo gpasswd -a delta web
sudo gpasswd -a www-data web
sudo chgrp -R web app/storage
sudo chmod -R g+rw app/storage

sudo cp -a /etc/apache2/sites-available/default /etc/apache2/sites-available/laravel
diff /etc/apache2/sites-available/default /etc/apache2/sites-available/laravel

0a1,2
> Alias /ANC-Application /home/delta/github/git/delta-software-labs/ANC-Application/public
>
2a5,6
>       ServerName laravel
>       ServerAlias www.laravel
4c8
<       DocumentRoot /var/www
---
>       DocumentRoot /home/delta/github/git/delta-software-labs/ANC-Application/public

sudo a2ensite laravel
sudo service apache2 restart

Append the following lines to the /etc/hosts file?
```
#Virtual Hosts
12.34.56.789    example.com
```

Note: Clashes with other web sites.

Contents of the /etc/apache2/conf.d/laravel.conf file.

Alias /ANC-Application "/home/delta/github/git/delta-software-labs/ANC-Application/public"

<VirtualHost *:80>
  # Host that will serve this project.
  ServerName app.dev
  # The location of our projects public directory.
  DocumentRoot /home/delta/github/git/delta-software-labs/ANC-Application/public
  # Useful logs for debug.
  CustomLog /var/log/apache2/laravel-access.log common
  ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/laravel-error.log
  # Rewrites for pretty URLs, better not to rely on .htaccess.
  <Directory /home/delta/github/git/delta-software-labs/ANC-Application/public>
    <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
      Options -MultiViews
      RewriteEngine On
      RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
      RewriteRule ^ index.php [L]
    </IfModule>
  </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

? sudo a2enmod rewrite
sudo service apache2 restart

4. Configuration of Laravel 4

sudo cp -a app/config/app.php app/config/app.php.orig
sudo cp -a app/config/database.php app/config/database.php.orig
# Set the timezone value in the application.php file to 'Asia/Bangkok'.
sudo php artisan key:generate

Make the following changes to the database.php file.

'default' => 'pgsql',

'pgsql' => array(
        'driver'   => 'pgsql',
        'host'     => '127.0.0.1',
        'host'     => 'localhost,
        'database' => 'laravel',
        'username' => 'delta',
        'password' => '********',
        'charset'  => 'utf8',
        'prefix'   => '',
        'schema'   => 'public',
),

Close Terminal.

git clone https://github.com/laravel/laravel.git ANC-Application
cd ANC-Application
composer install
# Use built-in server of PHP 5.4:
php -v
php -S localhost:8888 -t public

Browse to http://localhost:8888.

Download the latest development version from http://four.laravel.com.

cd /opt
sudo unzip ~/Downloads/laravel-develop.zip
sudo rm -rf laravel
sudo ln -s laravel-develop laravel
sudo ln -s /opt/laravel/public /var/www/laravel
vdir
cd /opt/laravel
? Type [kbd]`sudo chown -R www-data:www-data app/storage/*
sudo composer install
sudo cp -a app/config/app.php app/config/app.php.orig
sudo cp -a app/config/database.php app/config/database.php.orig

# Set the timezone value in the application.php file to 'Asia/Bangkok'.
sudo php artisan key:generate

Make the following changes to the database.php file.

'default' => 'pgsql',

'pgsql' => array(
        'driver'   => 'pgsql',
        'host'     => '127.0.0.1',
        'database' => 'laravel',
        'username' => 'delta',
        'password' => '********',
        'charset'  => 'utf8',
        'prefix'   => '',
        'schema'   => 'public',
),

Browse to http://localhost/laravel.

5. Installation of Laravel 3

Download the latest stable version from laravel.com.

sudo apt-get install php5-mcrypt
sudo service apache2 restart
cd /opt
sudo unzip ~/Downloads/laravel-laravel-v3.2.13-5-g23d23dd.zip
sudo find laravel-laravel-23d23dd -type d -exec chmod a+rx {} \;
sudo rm -rf laravel
sudo ln -s laravel-laravel-23d23dd laravel
sudo ln -s /opt/laravel/public /var/www/laravel
vdir
cd /opt/laravel
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data storage/views
cd /opt/laravel/application/config
sudo cp -a application.php application.php.orig
sudo cp -a database.php database.php.orig
# Set the timezone value in the application.php file to 'Asia/Bangkok'.
# Set the key value in the application.php file to an empty string.
cd /opt/laravel
sudo php artisan key:generate

Make the following changes to the database.php file.

'default' => 'pgsql',

'pgsql' => array(
        'driver'   => 'pgsql',
        'host'     => '127.0.0.1',
        'database' => 'laravel',
        'username' => 'delta',
        'password' => '********',
        'charset'  => 'utf8',
        'prefix'   => '',
        'schema'   => 'public',
),

Browse to http://localhost/laravel.

See http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/php/building-web-applications-from-scratch-with-laravel.
See http://forums.laravel.io/viewtopic.php?id=2864.
See http://daylerees.com/category/laravel-tutorials.
See http://bundles.laravel.com/bundle/jquery-validator.
See https://github.com/joecwallace/jquery-validator.
Type cd /etc/apache2/sites-available and press Enter.

Contents of the xxx file.

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerAdmin username@gmail.com
    DocumentRoot /var/www/laravel/public
    ServerName www.site1.com
    ServerAlias site1.com
</VirtualHost>

Note: Douwe: Is the following really needed?
Type sudo cp -a /etc/apache2/sites-available/default /etc/apache2/sites-available/default.orig and press Enter.
Type sudo cp -a /etc/apache2/sites-available/default-ssl /etc/apache2/sites-available/default-ssl.orig and press Enter.
Change AllowOverride None to AllowOverride All in the <Directory /var/www> section of the /etc/apache2/sites-available/default and /etc/apache2/sites-available/default-ssl files.
Type sudo service apache2 restart and press Enter.
Close Terminal.

6. Experimental

Install Composer.
Log in as user.

Download the latest validation version from https://github.com/illuminate/validation.

cd /opt
sudo unzip ~/Downloads/validation-master.zip
cd validation-master
sudo composer install

Production way, moderate complexity for people not familiar with unixes, but more secure:

Go in super user mode (sudo -s or su).
Create group web (groupadd web)
Add you main user to group web (suppose your user is cool_user, so run usermod -a -G web cool_user)
Add php-fpm or web server user (is php used as SAPI module) to web group (for example, on centos php-fpm utilize apache user name, so in most cases this will work: usermod -a -G web apache)
Change your project root directory group owner to web recursively (chgroup -R web /path/to/project/root/)
Grant recursively write permission for group (chmod -R g+w /path/to/project/root/
Optionaly To allow all newly created by apace (or some other) user files and folders be accessible from your user, make them receive group ownership same as their parent folder by setting groupid bit recursively on your project root directory (chmod -R g+s /path/to/project/root/).

Voila!.