The advantages of Laravel
In this article I am going to talk about the advantages of Laravel. In my opinion Laravel is the best framework for a PHP application. Laravel comes with a lot of build in features, like authentication, authorization, artisan, cashier, cache, collections, elixir, encryption and more.
Authentication
Laravel comes with a authentication class, which means that you can build login systems and register forms very easy.
Authorization
In Laravel, 'Authorization' means: "limitation of user permissions". With the authorization feature in Laravel, you can limit the permissions of users very easy. You also can block pages for several users.
Artisan
Artisan is the command-line tool of Laravel. With Artisan, you can build views, models, controllers and many more. Artisan is awesome!
Cashier
With Laravel Cashier/Billing, you can handle coupons, swapping subscriptions, subscription 'quantities", cancellation grace periods and you even can generate PDFs.
Cache
With the build-in caching API, Laravel can handle serveral caching systems, like Memcached and Redis.
Encryption
Laravel comes with an encryption system. You only have to set a 32 character random string. Now you can encrypt messages, errors, exceptions and many more, and you can decrypt them of course.
Errors & Logging
Laravel can handle errors very easy. You can loop through an array with errors, to show them, for example.
Laravel supports Monolog, Monolog is a logging system for developers. Monolog is integrated within Laravel.
Events
With the events functionality, you can handle events. For example, you can send a 'Thank you for registering'-email when a user have made an account.
Filesystem
Laravel supports Flysystem. It is written by a Dutch developer called Frank de Jonge. Flysystem can handle local hosted files, Amazon S3 and Rackspace Cloud Storage. It is also possible to switch between these services.
Hashing
For hashing, Laravel uses Bcrypt, a secure solution for hashing in PHP, for example.
Localization
With the localization option, you can locate the country of the user. You can adjust your website to the language of your user.
Laravel also can handle emails. Laravel uses the SwiftMailer library. It can handle SMTP, Mailgun, Mandrill and Amazon SES.
Pagination
In other frameworks, pagination can be very painful. Laravel makes it a breeze. Laravel can quickly generate an intelligent "range" of links based on the current page, and the generated HTML is compatible with the Bootstrap CSS framework.
Queues
Yes, Laravel supports queues. You can make queues with the unified API.
Redis
You can use Redis in Laravel, you can store strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets.
Session
Laravel loves sessions, so you can make sessions very easy, you also can cache data.
Envoy Task Runner
In my opinion, this is the coolest feature in Laravel. You can execute tasks with this package. You only have to set the task in your blade template.
Task Scheduling
Cronjobs are headache, so Laravel offer task scheduling, you can schedule tasks very easy. You only have to start the task scheduling from the command line.
Testing
With Laravel, you can test your application in a test environment. It will be set to 'testing' automatically.
Validation
With Laravel, you can validate data very easy. You only have to pass the data through a class which can validate them.
Conclusion
In my opinion, Laravel is the best PHP framework ever. It is easy to use, open-source and free to use. You also can generate views, models and controllers easily with Artisan. Thank you for reading this article, I hope you have learned the basics about Laravel, see you the next time, bye!