Update: Laravel Tutorials Status and some Site News

By The Company | Published: February 11, 2012

I’ve been working away at some Laravel tutorials that use the 3.0 codebase to work off of, it’s introduced some significant changes to the core and the tutorials will provide everything a beginner needs to get started.

I will also post some tutorials that have been requested on the forums, so look forward to those coming up soon.

By the way, I’ve got a special tutorial series coming up, in which I rewrite the code for this website with Laravel. It’s currently on WordPress, but I don’t need that extra bloat for a simple blog, so I’ll be scrapping all that in favour of Laravel.

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The Basics of Laravel Routes and Views

By The Company | Published: September 30, 2011

Today we’ll be covering GET Routes and Views, the core of Laravel, the defining aspect of any Laravel web application.

This is part of a series of posts designed to help a newcomer to the Laravel PHP framework find their way around. By the time this series is through, we’ll know the ins and outs of this amazing little framework. Now, enough talk, let’s get to work!

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Code Poetry – A Laravel Project

By The Company | Published: September 27, 2011

I just published version 1.0 of Code Poetry, a Laravel PHP project!

Many people see programming as a form of art, and I’d like to be able to have a place for these people to express it. Whenever you create a piece of code that you think is creative, poetic, or funny, then you should head on over to code-poetry.ecustom.ca and submit it!

I’d like for you guys and gals to head on over there and contribute something if interested. Currently there are no posts, so I encourage you to be the first!

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Named Routes in Laravel

By The Company | Published: September 21, 2011
This entry is part 3 of 3 in the series Laravel for the Complete Beginner

Today we’ll be covering using named routes in Laravel, which will ultimately make our lives easier in building our final web application.

This is part of a series of posts designed to help a newcomer to the Laravel PHP framework find their way around. By the time this series is through, we’ll know the ins and outs of this amazing little framework. Now, enough talk, let’s get to work!

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Prettifying Laravel URLs

By The Company | Published: September 19, 2011
This entry is part 2 of 3 in the series Laravel for the Complete Beginner

Laravel is a great PHP framework, but unfortunately it’s default URLs have index.php in them.

Today, we’ll be covering how to fix this problem by providing a solution for both Apache and nginx servers!

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Install & Setup Laravel in 3 Easy Steps

By The Company | Published: September 17, 2011
This entry is part 1 of 3 in the series Laravel for the Complete Beginner

A while ago we wrote an article reviewing Laravel, a new PHP framework. Today, we’re kicking off a series to teach you more about it!

This is the first of a series of posts designed to help a newcomer to the Laravel PHP framework find their way around. By the time this series is through, we’ll know the ins and outs of this amazing little framework. Now, enough talk, let’s get to work!

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Laravel – Amazing Little PHP Framework

By The Company | Published: August 5, 2011

Been a little quiet around here lately, but I assure you, we’re still here.

I recently got my hands on quite a nifty little PHP framework named Laravel by Taylor Otwell. It focuses on “staying true to the web with RESTful style routing,” which I have found to be a gift. Laravel makes putting my web app ideas into reality a dream.

Still sound cool? It should! Learn more after the jump.

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Disqus Comments

By The Company | Published: March 26, 2011

Hey all!

I’m currently revamping parts of the site, and I’m curious, how would you feel if I converted to Disqus comments, as opposed to my plain-old vanilla comments? Head on over there and look at some of the features.

Eventually I’d setup some of the Disqus features myself but, just for now, what’s your opinions? Leave a comment down below.

Thanks! :D

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CSS: The Very Basics

By John | Published: March 9, 2011
This entry is part 1 of 1 in the series CSS for Beginners

Welcome to the first tutorial in an ongoing series that will cover aspects of CSS big and small!

Starting from the basic groundwork, we will work our way up to crazy advanced ninja techniques, covering CSS3 and a variety of neat tips and tricks!

Interested? Read on for more!

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March 2011 Newsletter

By The Company | Published: March 7, 2011

Welcome to this month’s eCustom Solutions newsletter!

Read on to learn about three major endeavours that will be rolling out over our short-mid term future.

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