{"id":35,"date":"2014-10-15T03:24:25","date_gmt":"2014-10-15T03:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alexanderramsey.com\/blog\/?p=35"},"modified":"2014-10-15T03:25:26","modified_gmt":"2014-10-15T03:25:26","slug":"laravel-the-latest-in-refined-web-application-frameworks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/alexanderramsey.com\/blog\/?p=35","title":{"rendered":"Laravel: The Latest in (Refined) Web Application Frameworks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.ittestsonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/2013_year_of_PHP_Laravel.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Learning PHP from front to back to develop a web application has proven daunting for many of us who like to focus on front end design. I cannot express to you how much of a headache I get when I think about all of the components I would need to understand better in order to develop a basic blogging or CMS engine. Luckily, thanks to the hard work of many talented web application developers, there are now many open source frameworks available for use.<\/p>\n<p>Layers upon layers being built upon existing languages, with repurposed code being organized and made available for the masses &#8211; it&#8217;s a prime example of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/laravel.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Laravel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There is a very talented web developer named\u00a0Maksim Surguy who has written <a href=\"http:\/\/maxoffsky.com\/maxoffsky-blog\/laravel-first-framework-chapter-1-meeting-laravel\/\" target=\"_blank\">an excellent introductory article for the new framework<\/a>. I would highly recommend taking a look at his write up as it offers a good balance of technical knowledge and entry level explanation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learning PHP from front to back to develop a web application has proven daunting for many of us who like to focus on front end design. I cannot express to you how much of a headache I get when I think about all of the components I would need to understand better in order to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,14,13],"tags":[16,15,17],"class_list":["post-35","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-development","category-frameworks","category-php","tag-laravel","tag-php-2","tag-web-application-framework"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/alexanderramsey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/alexanderramsey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/alexanderramsey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alexanderramsey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alexanderramsey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/alexanderramsey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42,"href":"http:\/\/alexanderramsey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions\/42"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/alexanderramsey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alexanderramsey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alexanderramsey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}