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Posted by OSP Official
OSP Official
89 Points

Can anyone share me a good book for laravel? i really appreciate if treehouse open course for php laravel :D

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3 Answers

Tom Bedford
Tom Bedford
15,645 Points
Tom Bedford
Tom Bedford
15,645 Points

Hi there, Treehouse does have a Laravel course available. I have not used it before myself so can't recommend a book!

Atrian Wagner
Atrian Wagner
24,811 Points
Atrian Wagner
Atrian Wagner
24,811 Points

Code Bright is the most commonly used book for learning Laravel. It is free to use from the web, and it focuses on Laravel version 4. The author is currently working on Code Smart, which will focus on Laravel version 5. Also I second Tom Bedford's link to the Treehouse Laravel Basics course. I have taken it and find Hampton to be an excellent teacher.

Darryn Smith
Darryn Smith
32,043 Points
Darryn Smith
Darryn Smith
32,043 Points

I am having a good time (and learning a lot about implementing users and permissions) with this book: Learning Laravel eBook. What is very, very nice about this book is that it's 100% electronic, and the author(s) update it regularly to ensure it works with the latest releases of Laravel. Each leap from v4.2 -> 5.0 -> 5.1 -> 5.2 breaks certain parts of previous releases, so having an up to date reference is deeply appreciated. The English is a tad foreign/translated but it's strong enough not to get in the way.

Also I can't recommend Jeffery Way's Laracasts enough. His courses are just about the best Laravel training out there (once you've gone through Hampton Paulk's Laravel 4 course here on Treehouse). I also went through the Tutorials at Laravel.com and felt my time was well spent.

While a slight downside to the Treehouse course is that it's getting a bit long in the tooth, it's still probably the best absolute-beginner level course on Laravel that I've seen, and I'm sure I'd be nowhere without it. At this point, you just have to either be sure to install Laravel v.4 via Github Download or resolve to struggle through the few spots where v5 is different, which is what I did and apparently many others have done. Most of the bugs are resolved in teacher's notes and questions attached to each video. (4.2 can also be had using composer, at least as of today... )

composer create-project laravel/laravel {directory} 4.2 --prefer-dist.

I guess to summarize, I'd recommend these various resources in this order:

Bear in mind, everything except the Laravel.com tutorials bear a cost of some kind. But all worth it imho.