PHP

What sets Laravel apart from other PHP web frameworks? Speed and simplicity, for starters. This rapid application development framework and its ecosystem of tools let you quickly build new sites and applications with clean, readable code. Fully updated to include Laravel 10, the third edition of this practical guide provides the definitive introduction to one of today's most popular web frameworks.

Matt Stauffer, a leading teacher and developer in the Laravel community, delivers a high-level overview and concrete examples to help experienced PHP web developers get started with this framework right away. This updated edition covers the entirely new auth and frontend tooling and other first-party tools introduced since the second edition.

Dive into features, including:

• Blade, Laravel's powerful custom templating tool
• Tools for gathering, validating, normalizing, and filtering user-provided data
• The Eloquent ORM for working with application databases
• The Illuminate request object and its role in the application lifecycle
• PHPUnit, Mockery, and Dusk for testing your PHP code
• Tools for writing JSON and RESTful APIs
• Interfaces for filesystem access, sessions, cookies, caches, and search
• Tools for implementing queues, jobs, events, and WebSocket event publishing
• Specialty packages including Scout, Passport, Cashier, and more

If you're a PHP developer looking for proven solutions to common problems, this cookbook provides code recipes to help you resolve a variety of coding issues. PHP is a remarkably easy language to work with, which explains why it powers more than 75% of the websites online today. It's also incredibly forgiving of programming mistakes, which can perpetuate reuse of questionable code.

By leveraging modern versions of PHP through version 8.2, author Eric Mann provides self-contained recipes that will enable you to solve the problems you face in your day-to-day work. You'll also find established patterns and examples that any developer can follow for addressing common problems with PHP. With these recipes, you'll quickly identify and resolve complicated issues without having to reinvent the wheel.

This practical guide will help you:

• Build efficient applications composed of functions and objects
• Explore the type system of modern PHP
• Understand key concepts such as encryption, error handling, debugging, and performance tuning
• Examine the PHP package/extension ecosystem
• Learn how to build basic web and command-line applications
• Work securely with files on a machine, both encrypted and in plain text

Take the guesswork out using regular expressions to search and manipulate text. With this updated cookbook, you have access to hundreds of proven recipes for today's most popular programming languages - including C#, Java, JavaScript (including XRegExp), Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, and VB.NET. As useful as regular expressions can be for programmers, their power doesn't come worry-free. This guide will deepen your understanding, no matter how much experience you have with this reliable tool. You'll learn powerful new tricks, steer clear of flavor-specific gotchas, and save valuable time with this huge library of solutions to difficult, real-world problems.

Understand the basics of regular expressions through a concise tutorial Use regular expressions effectively in several programming and scripting languages Learn how to validate and format input Manage words, lines, special characters, and numerical values Find solutions for using regular expressions in URLs, paths, markup, and data exchange Discover the nuances of more advanced regex features Experience how regular expressions' APIs, syntax, and behavior differ from language to language Write better regular expressions for custom needs

There's a wealth of data online, but sorting and gathering it by hand can be tedious and time consuming. Rather than click through page after endless page, why not let bots do the work for you?

Webbots, Spiders, and Screen Scrapers will show you how to create simple programs with PHP/CURL to mine, parse, and archive online data to help you make informed decisions. Michael Schrenk, a highly regarded webbot developer, teaches you how to develop fault-tolerant designs, how best to launch and schedule the work of your bots, and how to create Internet agents that:

• Send email or SMS notifications to alert you to new information quickly
• Search different data sources and combine the results on one page, making the data easier to interpret and analyze
• Automate purchases, auction bids, and other online activities to save time

Sample projects for automating tasks like price monitoring and news aggregation will show you how to put the concepts you learn into practice.

This second edition of Webbots, Spiders, and Screen Scrapers includes tricks for dealing with sites that are resistant to crawling and scraping, writing stealthy webbots that mimic human search behavior, and using regular expressions to harvest specific data. As you discover the possibilities of web scraping, you'll see how webbots can save you precious time and give you much greater control over the data available on the Web.