Building a simple URL Shortener in PHP with Laravel

Thu, 12 Mar 2020 00:00:00 +0000

I’ve recorded a quick Youtube video for you! In this video, we walk through building a simple URL shortener (think bit.ly) in PHP with the Laravel framework.

This originally started as part of my Laravel foundations course (link coming soon) but I felt that we could quickly get through an example on Youtube, too. In the course, we dive into things and go a bit slower to really get a grasp on how everything works, but this less than 30 minute video should get you started down the right path.

What is Laravel's Homestead?

Sat, 29 Feb 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Laravel is, as far as PHP frameworks go, extremely popular. In their guide, the Laravel community recommends you use Homestead as your local development environment. But what is Laravel’s homestead and why use it?

Laravel’s Homestead

Homestead is Laravel’s suggested development environment for building Laravel applications in PHP. Homestead is packaged as a vagrant box (a virtual machine) and is aimed to simply the initial setup of your Laravel project.

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Building a simple URL Shortener in PHP with Laravel

What is Laravel's Homestead?

Laravel’s Homestead