Laravel learning notes

#Day1, 2018-02-11:

1. History of Web and PHP frameworks:

    First comes Ruby on Rail @ 2004 [David Heinemeier Hansson]

    Then PHP frameworks imitates Rails pops up:

        CakePHP @ 2005, and it was soon followed by Symfony, CodeIgniter, Zend

Framework, and Kohana (a CodeIgniter fork). 

        Yii @ 2008, 

        Aura and Slim @ 2010,

        FuelPHP and Laravel @ 2011

    By 2010, CodeIgniter becomes the most popular independent PHP frameworks, but it slowly accept new technology, and this makes Taylor Otwell write his own Laravel framework. 

#Day2, 2018-02-12: 

        Laravel 1 @ June 2011, Laravel 2 @ November 2011, Laravel 3 @ February 2012, Laravel 4 @ May 2013, Laravel 5 @ February 2015.

    The Philosophy of Laravel: Developer happiness from download to deploy.

2. Setting up a Laravel Development Environment

    2.1 System requirement:

        PHP >= 5.6.4 for Laravel 5.3 or PHP >= 5.5.9 for 5.1 and 5.2

        OpenSSL PHP extension

        PDO PHP extension

        Mbstring PHP extension

        Tokenizer PHP extension

    2.2 Composer

    2.3 Local Development Environments

        2.3.1 MAMP or WAMP or XAMPP

        M stands for Mac, W stands for Windows and XAMPP stands for Cross-platform for Windows, Mac OS and Linux.

        2.3.2 Laravel Valet (Omit)

        2.3.3 Laravel Homestead