Laravel

Implicit Route Binding

From this video

 Route::get('users/{user}', function(App\User $user){
   return $user;
 });

If the arg name matches the token, it will magic that value into place. With the type hinting, it will find a user with the primary key given in the url.

To use something other than the primary key, you have to add a route binding in RouteServiceProvider.

Auth

Video

 php artisan make:auth

Creates a bunch of views, routes and adds a controller.

Email

Easiest is to use 'sendmail'. Make sure to set 'from' in config/mail.php.

Homestead

I'll need to try setting up a homestead instance on AWS with Vagrant. Could be useful to know for other projects too.

Illuminate/html

 composer require illuminate/html

Then in config/app.php, add 'Illuminate\Html\HtmlServiceProvider' to the providers array and 'Form' => 'Illuminate\Html\FormFacade' to the aliases array.

This seems to be the most up-to-date documentation.

Request

 $input = Request::all();
 $foo = Request::get('foo');

Gets all inputs from get and post.

Good shorthand

 $input = Request::all();
 SomeModel::create($input);

Eloquent

The $fillable property limits which properties can be assigned.