Developer, Photographer, Blogger in Copenhagen.
Recently I set up a project with the laravel PHP framework and hit a little bump right away. After cloning my project on my computer at home, I encountered an error message about the AES key length.
Luckily I wasn’t the only one with that issue and running the following and conveniently available artisan commands fixed it already:
php artisan key:generate
php artisan config:clear
The Laravel project has made a pretty smart move, that now is also in their quick start guide. They enable you to install it directly through composer! I’ve written about composer once when I ran into a little quirky bug on MacOS.
Using composer, which is a general dependency manager for PHP seems like a big step towards more interchangeable code between different PHP frameworks. I’ve briefly looked into Sparks some time ago, but it’s pretty specifically aimed at the CodeIgniter framework. Continue reading “PHP MVC: The Laravel Framework”
Frameworks are making your life easier, since they take care of common tasks you without them would have to repeat for every project or even within projects.
I have assembled a small list of promising candidates for you, they may not be the most commonly used, but they teach best practices, principles like MVC and have communities and thereby helping hands on the internet.
This post was originally written for the semester blog of my class, therefore it also focusses on the types of database queries supported by the frameworks, we have a dedicated module in SQL and databases, which is why it is pretty relevant to the students of my semester. Continue reading “Best PHP MVC frameworks of 2013”
