Professional Programming. Laravel 9. Rapid Website Development in PHP

The book is a complete description of the Laravel 9 framework for rapid website development in PHP. It provides a brief introductory course for beginners, which describes the development of a simple training website - an electronic bulletin board. The... basic tools of Laravel are described: migrations, models, routes, controllers, templates, user input processing and saving uploaded files, validators, templates, paginators, and access control tools. More advanced tools are discussed: dependency injection, providers, middleware, events and their handling, sending emails, notifications, queues and delayed tasks, built-in scheduler, caching tools, site localization, and extending the capabilities of the built-in artisan utility. Additional libraries for processing BBCode tags and CAPTCHA, displaying graphic thumbnails, and social network authentication are described. The programming of REST web services, broadcasting via the WebSocket protocol, and website publishing are covered. The electronic archive on the publisher's website contains the source code of the site described in the book.