Conventions

In this book, you will find a number of text styles that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles and an explanation of their meaning.

Code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles are shown as follows: "The Illuminate namespace does not refer to a third-party library."

A block of code is set as follows:

sites:
    - map: dev.furbook.com
      to: /home/vagrant/Code/furbook.com/public
databases:
    - furbook

When we wish to draw your attention to a particular part of a code block, the relevant lines or items are set in bold:

Route::post('cats', function() {
  $cat = Furbook\Cat::create(Input::all());
  return redirect('cats/'.$cat->id)
    ->withSuccess('Cat has been created.');
});

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

$ composer create-project laravel/laravel furbook.com --prefer-dist

New terms and important words are shown in bold. Words that you see on the screen, for example, in menus or dialog boxes, appear in the text like this: " If you now try to visit an invalid URL, nginx will display a 404 Not Found error page."

Note

Warnings or important notes appear in a box like this.

Tip

Tips and tricks appear like this.