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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

Hashing passwords and other data

It's common practice to hash a user's password when we store it in a database. This helps prevent anyone who gets unauthorized access to the database from seeing people's passwords. However, we may also want to hide our user's e-mail address or other information, so no one will be able to access them as well. We can use Laravel's Hash to do this easily.

Getting ready

For this recipe, we need a standard installation of Laravel, as well as a properly set-up and configured MySQL database.

How to do it...

Here are the steps for this recipe…

Set up the database table by using the following commands:

CREATE TABLE register (
  id int(10) unsigned NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
  username varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,
  email char(60) DEFAULT NULL,
  password char(60) DEFAULT NULL,
  PRIMARY KEY (id)
  ) ENGINE=InnoDB AUTO_INCREMENT=1

In the views directory, create a file named as register.php with the help of the following code:
```
  <!doctype html>
  <html lang="en"&gt...
```