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You're reading from Laravel Application Development Cookbook Since Laravel is so versatile, one of the best learning routes is a cookbook. We've included lots of recipes and guidance on building web application, both simple and complex. It's a pick & mix approach that works brilliantly.

Product type Paperback

Published in Oct 2013

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781782162827

Length 272 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

PHP

Tools

Laravel

Concepts

Server Side Web Development

Author (1):

Terry Matula

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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Laravel Application Development Cookbook

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

www.PacktPub.com

Preface

1. Setting Up and Installing Laravel FREE CHAPTER

2. Using Forms and Gathering Input

3. Authenticating Your Application

4. Storing and Using Data

5. Using Controllers and Routes for URLs and APIs

6. Displaying Your Views

7. Creating and Using Composer Packages

8. Using Ajax and jQuery

9. Using Security and Sessions Effectively

10. Testing and Debugging Your App

11. Deploying and Integrating Third-party Services into Your Application

Index

Using basic sessions and cookies

There will be times when we want to pass data from one page of our app to another page without needing to store the information in a database. To accomplish this, we can use the various Session and Cookie methods that Laravel provides us.

Getting ready

For this recipe, we need a standard Laravel installation.

How to do it…

For this recipe, follow the given steps:

In the views folder, create a file named session-one.php with the following code:

  <!DOCTYPE html>
  <html>
  <head>
  <title>Laravel Sessions and Cookies</title>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  </head>
  <body>
  <h2>Laravel Sessions and Cookies</h2>
  <?= Form::open() ?>
  <?= Form::label('email', 'Email address: ') ?>
  <?= Form::text('email') ?>
  <br>
  <?= Form::label('name', 'Name: ') ?>
  <?= Form::text('name') ?>
  <br>
  <?= Form::label('city', 'City: ') ?>
  <?= Form::text('city') ?&gt...