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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

Uploading an image using Redactor

There are a few different JavaScript libraries that can turn a form's text area into a WYSIWYG editor. Redactor is a newer library but is very well coded and has gained quite a bit of popularity in a short amount of time. For this recipe, we'll apply Redactor to our Laravel form, and create routes to allow for image uploads through Redactor.

Getting ready

We need to download a copy of Redactor from https://github.com/dybskiy/redactor-js/tree/master/redactor. Download redactor.min.js and save it to the public/js directory. Download redactor.css and save it to the public/css directory.

How to do it...

To complete this recipe, follow these steps:

Create a route in our routes.php file to hold our form with the redactor field:

Route::get('redactor', function() 
{
    return View::make('redactor');
});

Create a view in our app/views directory and name it as redactor.php:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
    <head>
        <title>Laravel and Redactor<...

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