I have recently started to take a look at the PHP Laravel Framework for various reasons.
My personal reasons are:
- I have a basic understanding of PHP. I wanted to get some exposure to a PHP Framework.
- I have also noticed that there are some potential freelancing opportunities with Laravel.
My professional reasons are:
- It is an MVC Framework.
- It has a lot of built-in features: RESTful Routing, The Eloquent ORM, Blade Templating, Unit Testing, Authentication
The one really nice perk about Laravel is there is a lot of good documentation for it. I also joined Laracasts. It’s a video based training for Laravel. They also provide some JavaScript Training videos. In the future I’ll post a review of it.
I’ll also write about any projects that I make using Laravel.