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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

Setting up and configuring PHPUnit

In this recipe, we'll see how to install and setup the popular PHPUnit testing package: PHPUnit.

Getting ready

For this recipe, we need a working installation of Laravel 4. We'll also need the Composer dependency tool installed from http://getcomposer.org.

How to do it...

To complete this recipe, follow the given steps:

In the root directory of the application, add the following line to the composer.json file:
```
  "require-dev": {
  "phpunit/phpunit": "3.7.*"
  },
```
Open the command line window, navigate to the root directory, and run an update on the Composer tool with the following line:
```
  php composer update
```
After it is installed, run a quick test in the command line window with the command:
```
  vendor/bin/phpunit
```

How it works...

Our composer.json file tells the Composer tool which packages it should install. So our first task is to add the phpunit package as a requirement. After saving that file, we'll run an update command and phpunit will be added to our vendor...