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Intro to Laravel 5

Intro to Laravel 5

From the course: MVC Frameworks for Building PHP Web Applications

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Intro to Laravel 5

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- [Narrator] Laravel's one of the newcomers to the framework world. It was released in 2011 and has fast become the most popular framework in the PHP world. There are a lot of good reasons for this and its active user base has only helped to widen their lead. Let's take a look at this framework. Laravel was born out of frustration because of the lagging of the CodeIgniter framework. People in the Laravel world say crazy things like It makes PHP fun again, and it's really loved currently and it has a very active community. And because of this, a lot of projects have branched out of it. There's been a flurry of activity in this sphere. One of the intelligent things about Laravel was it borrowed a lot of things from Symfony2 and from other places, so it came together very quickly and they didn't have to build a lot of the core infrastructure. So they weren't doing a lot of redundant work that they do in a lot of these other frameworks. Laravel has used Composer for a long, long time, so…

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