For example ..

Schema::create('users', function($table) {
	// auto incremental id (PK)
	$table->increments('id');

	// varchar 32
	$table->string('username', 32);
	$table->string('email', 320);
	$table->string('password', 64);

	// int
	$table->integer('role');

	// boolean
	$table->boolean('active');

	// created_at | updated_at DATETIME
	$table->timestamps();
});

The new scheme doesn’t fit the color scheme of the site so well, but I don’t feel that it ‘breaks’ the theme either, so we should be ok for now.

The previous tutorials will need to be updated manually to the new style of code blocks, so you will see them gradually improve over time when I get a spare five minutes.

I am also working on a category view for the tutorials, so you can see them all in order without my other blog posts interrupting the procedure.

Thanks for reading!

The tmfile can be used with Sublime Text 2, Textmate, or any other texteditor that supports the tmLanguage extension, to add syntax highlighting support for the Laravel Blade templating language, using colors from your current editors color scheme.

Medalink claimed the cash prize for the creation, almost $100, $25 of which donated by myself, and many of the other Laravel team. Well done Medalink!

If you would like to use the Blade language syntax highlighting, simply head over to Medalink’s Github repo.

Thanks Eric!

I have finally accepted that there will never be another good Final Fantasy game, I have accepted that you have whored out on making little social games or iPhone ports. So please don’t rub it in my face, by using a logo-style that was once used by some of the best Japanese RPG games that ever graced the console world. It’s teasing, and it’s just plain not fair!

It kinda sucks that you hyped it with a big teaser trailer too, yeah well… ah forget it.

It currently has the 15 topics covered on the blog, with many, many more coming soon, you pay once and you receive every update, forever! I will try to keep the book up to date with future versions of Laravel, so you can’t get a better deal than that!

Please note that this is a publish in progress title, extra tutorials will be added every couple of days to extend the length of the book. Not bad for $4.99 right?

The pricing scheme is a little special, the base price for the book is set at $4.99, however the suggested price is set to £39.99. The suggested price is NOT suggested, that is simply the label that the site uses, here is how extra payment works..

If you pay over $4.99, you well get my everlasting gratitude, and spur me on to continue writing my tutorials at the highest quality I can provide.

If you pay over $9.99 I will print your name at the end of the next published chapter of the book, the amount you pay over $9.99 decides how ‘high-up’ it will appear! (fun right!)

If you pay over $19.99 you can email me / comment a 140 character message to be included with your name in the next published chapter of the book, please keep it clean!

The limit has been set to $39.99 to stop people with more money than sense from emptying their wallets!

If you spend over $9.99 please send an email to me@daylerees.com with your name, and your purchase ID to be included in the next chapter, if you spend over £19.99 please include your 140 character message in this email.

The publisher will only accept PayPal payments at present, I will try to find additional publishers to widen the payment options at a later date.

Click the picture of the red panda to buy the book! Thanks!

Now the book does have a price, but I wan’t to assure my readers that the tutorials will still be posted here for free. Why would you bother buying the book then? Well you don’t have to at all, I love Laravel and I want to make my tutorials available to as many people as possible so they can learn how wonderful the framework really is, but if you would like to ‘reward’ me for my time spent on them, or ‘bribe’ me so that I continue writing these things, or even if you just want a nice reference copy of all my tutorials that you can read on your kindle, you can.

You see people normally just put up a ‘donate here’ button, or a buy me a beer. Well if you did that, I might  get a beer out of it, but you would just lose money, damn that’s not fair at all. So I thought why not give something back? You know? I get a beer, you get a book, that sort of thing. We both win, it will be a great feeling!

The book will be available in .mobi ePub and PDF so you can read it on your PC, or take it with you on your hitch-hikers guid… Kindle. It will be re-published every time I add something new, this includes trying to keep it up to date for future versions of Laravel, and if you have already paid for it, you can download the updates as many times as you want, thanks to the guys at Leanpub.com. As far as I know this is the first book based on the Laravel framework! Wanna see the cover? It’s kinda cute.

Thanks to my girlfriend Emma for the photo, un-shopped, just a generally happy panda! He has been using Laravel. You have probably guessed this by now but Red Panda’s are really fussy coders, unless their code is truly expressive, they are not happy! Most people think that Red Panda’s are kinda rare, but the truth is we have too many here in Wales, in fact I am using one as a footrest right now, another pair are dancing for my amusement, and at night we use them instead of pillows; they have better stuffing you see..

Overdue Thanks

I would like to say thanks to all of you who have been reading my tutorials, and providing enthusiastic and helpful feedback. Writing this kinda thing is a first for me, I simply wanted to share with the world how great Laravel is to use, and in doing so my blog stats have turned from depressingly poor, to no longer a loner! Really check this out!

Some unfortunately sad, to many people! Hurray!

Now unfortunately I have got a little off track due to sorting out the Book stuff, but the next tutorial will arrive tonight, and it covers using the Fluent Query Builder to handle database interactions.

The book itself is almost ready to release the first published version, the publisher currently has a little bug with their PDF generation effecting the headers, if it can’t be fixed soon I will release anyway but promise to fix this in the future, the Kindle and ePub versions look great.

Expect a release later today if the headers get fixed, early next week if not!

Thanks again everyone!

Layout allows you to define your hierarchical layout structures within PHP arrays, to display complex HTML layouts. You can also bind data (just like with CI views) and attach assets to each view.

Full documentation, including a download link can be found at:

http://daylerees.com/layout

and the source for the library can be found on Github, please feel free to contribute changes.

Let me know if the Library is of any use to you!