Helpful links on a variety of topics:
- General Web & Development
- Laravel 4
- Composer Packages
- Testing
- Misc
- Important Project File Reference
- User Interface / Front End
- Backbone
- Component Management
- Web Components
- Websockets (Persistent Connections / Real-time updates)
- Interesting Apps to Model / Watch / Assist?
- Interesting Blogs
- Forums / Ideas
- APIs
HTTP Response Codes http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec10.html
Composer Package Directory http://packagist.org
REST API http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/php/laravel-4-a-start-at-a-restful-api/
Error handling in REST http://satishgopal.wordpress.com/tag/rest-error-handling/
Style guide for web authors http://med.stanford.edu/modelsite/styles/
Supported Timezones: http://php.net/manual/en/timezones.php
GPG Cheatsheet: http://irtfweb.ifa.hawaii.edu/~lockhart/gpg/
PHP Package Checklist: http://phppackagechecklist.com/#1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14
Easy way to learn web frameworks: https://github.com/komarserjio/notejam
Installing Laravel http://niallobrien.me/2013/03/installing-and-updating-laravel-4/
Testing Laravel Models http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/php/testing-like-a-boss-in-laravel-models/
Laravel 4 IoC and Facades http://www.thenerdary.net/post/30859565484/laravel-4
Dependency Injection and IoC in Laravel 4 Controllers http://www.nathandavison.com/posts/view/16/using-dependency-injection-and-ioc-in-laravel-4-controllers
Excellent tutorial on a user management system: https://gist.github.com/anchetaWern/4223764
Laravel starter site https://github.com/andrew13/Laravel-4-Bootstrap-Starter-Site
Routing / Cross-Origin-Resource-Sharing http://acairns.co.uk/2013/01/routing-and-cors-with-laravel-4/
Doctrine documentation: http://docs.doctrine-project.org/projects/doctrine-dbal/en/latest/index.html
Laravel package registry: http://registry.autopergamene.eu/
Way Generators https://github.com/JeffreyWay/Laravel-4-Generators "way/generators": "dev-master"
Prevent artisan from running some commands (eg, migrate:refresh on a production server): https://github.com/Itrulia/ArtisanBlock
DocBlock parser: "phpdocumentor/reflection-docblock": "2.0.*@dev" https://github.com/phpDocumentor/ReflectionDocBlock
Presenter: https://github.com/robclancy/presenter "robclancy/presenter": "dev-master"
Image handling and manipulation: http://creolab.hr/2013/07/image-manipulation-in-laravel-4-with-imagine/ http://intervention.olivervogel.net/image "intervention/image": "dev-master"
More image handling and manipulation: https://github.com/Zweer/php-images
Laravel Administrator (seems to be a nice front-end for accessing tables, etc.): http://administrator.frozennode.com/ https://github.com/FrozenNode/Laravel-Administrator "frozennode/administrator": "dev-master"
Laravel 4 package unit testing helper (this has a lot of dependencies...): https://github.com/orchestral/testbench "orchestra/testbench": "2.0.*"
Classes to help write tests for laravel: https://github.com/Zizaco/testcases-laravel
Role-based permissions for Laravel 4: https://github.com/Zizaco/entrust "zizaco/entrust": "dev-master"
Authentication (by same person who built entrust): https://github.com/Zizaco/confide "zizaco/confide": "dev-master" (needs PHP 5.4)
Authentication & Authorization: https://github.com/cartalyst/sentry "cartalyst/sentry": "2.0.*"
Authentication/ACL admin panel: https://github.com/intrip/laravel-authentication-acl
Another auth package: https://github.com/Toddish/Verify-L4 "toddish/verify": "dev-master"
OAuth (login via facebook, github, google, etc.) https://github.com/madewithlove/laravel-oauth2
Server-side handling of datatables: https://github.com/bllim/laravel4-datatables-package "bllim/datatables": "dev-master" also https://github.com/Chumper/Datatable
I think this lets you interact with Artisan via a web form (useful if no shell access): https://github.com/JN-Jones/web-artisan
Laravel IDE Helper - enables auto-completion for Laravel in Sublime/PHPStorm: https://github.com/barryvdh/laravel-ide-helper "barryvdh/laravel-ide-helper": "v1.5.2"
Extra functionality for models (including auto-validation, similar to ardent): https://github.com/betawax/role-model
Ardent Self-validating, secure and smart models: http://laravelbook.github.io/ardent/ https://github.com/laravelbook/ardent "laravelbook/ardent": "dev-master"
Markdown compiler for Laravel 4: https://github.com/vtalbot/markdown
Markdown: https://github.com/michelf/php-markdown/
User-available configuration settings (config loader via database): https://bitbucket.org/hailwoodnz/database-config-loader "hailwood/database-config-loader": "dev-master"
Simple menu builder: https://bitbucket.org/purposemedia/menu
Alternate formatting for rules (eg, 'username' => Rule::required()->alphaDash()->between(3, 100)) https://github.com/bigelephant/laravel-rules
File attachments: https://github.com/CodeSleeve/stapler
File uploads: https://github.com/andrew13/cabinet
Theme and asset management: https://github.com/teepluss/laravel4-theme "teepluss/theme": "dev-master"
Themes: http://docs.cartalyst.com/themes-2/overview
Find the classes behind the facades: https://github.com/experience/laravel-4-map
Multi-gateway payment processing library: https://github.com/adrianmacneil/omnipay "omnipay/omnipay": "1.*"
Breadcrumbs: https://github.com/davejamesmiller/laravel-breadcrumbs
History tracking: https://github.com/VentureCraft/revisionable
Form Builder: https://github.com/Anahkiasen/former
Reposed (an extended model class): https://github.com/kapv89/reposed
Shopping Cart: https://github.com/moltin/laravel-cart
Laravel Nested Set: https://github.com/lazychaser/laravel4-nestedset
Create/work with PDF files: https://github.com/barryvdh/laravel-dompdf "barryvdh/laravel-dompdf": "dev-master"
http://www.tcpdf.org/index.php "tecnick.com/tcpdf": "dev-master"
HTML -> PDF Converter (with some Laravel4 wrappers): https://github.com/dompdf/dompdf "barryvdh/laravel-dompdf": "dev-master" "thujohn/pdf": "dev-master"
FPDF (possibly included in distro as php-fpdf): http://www.fpdf.org/ "itbz/fpdf": "dev-master"
FPDI (FPDF Document Importer; import/annotate pdf files): (also works with templates) http://www.setasign.com/products/fpdi/downloads/
Online payments http://payum.forma-dev.com/
E-Commerce: http://sylius.org/
Model workflow (fire events when status changes, etc): https://bitbucket.org/smartsoftware/modelworkflow
Gulp workflow for maintainable email templates: https://github.com/koomai/bulletproof-email
Roles and Permissions for Laravel 5 https://github.com/romanbican/roles
Laravel tables (reports?) https://github.com/msieprawski/resource-table
PhpUnit https://jtreminio.com/2013/03/unit-testing-tutorial-introduction-to-phpunit/
Integration Testing the DOM with a web crawler Information from http://symfony.com/doc/2.0/book/testing.html http://symfony.com/doc/2.0/components/dom_crawler.html
Flexible mock objects with Mockery http://jontai.me/blog/2012/04/flexible-mock-objects-with-mockery/
Mockery https://github.com/padraic/mockery
The League of Extraordinary Packages https://thephpleague.com/
Skeleton package https://github.com/thephpleague/skeleton
Easy fixtures for models https://github.com/summerstreet/woodling
I like these, too: https://github.com/fzaninotto/Faker
There's an interesting package called Expressive Date, at: https://github.com/jasonlewis/expressive-date
Test cases (inherit classes from these): https://github.com/Zizaco/laravel4-test-cases
Descriptions, ratings, and demos of various software products: http://demo.softaculous.com/enduser/index.php?
Themosis Framework for WordPress developers: http://framework.themosis.com/
Consistent configuration for editors: http://editorconfig.org/
Shopping Carts: http://www.opencart.com/
Online SVG Editor: https://github.com/johan/svg-edit http://svg-edit.googlecode.com/svn/branches/stable/editor/svg-editor.html
http://www.prestashop.com/ http://magento.com/products/overview#community
PHP micro-framework for simple single-file apps: http://silex.sensiolabs.org
HTTP Response Codes: vendor\symfony\http-foundation\Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Response.php
See a full list of autoloaded classes for the project (refresh via composer dump-autoload): /vendor/composer/autoload_classmap.php
Lots of stuff on the UI. Here are some things:
- Front-End Frameworks
- General Layout
- Tables
- UI / View Controls
- Canvas
- Validators / Notifiers
- Forms / Data-Entry Controls
- Forms / Date/Time
- Forms / Select Boxes
- Forms / Textbox Editing
- File Managers
- Graphics/Media
- Misc
HTML Kickstart (similar to bootstrap) http://www.99lime.com/elements/
Semantic web components (similar to bootstrap): http://semantic-ui.com/
Template rendering engine: http://tempojs.com/
Flexbox: https://www.adobe.com/devnet/html5/articles/working-with-flexbox-the-new-spec.html
"Holy Grail" layout -- 3 equal-length full-height columns with fixed sides and fluid center: http://alistapart.com/article/holygrail http://philipwalton.github.io/solved-by-flexbox/demos/holy-grail/
Packery (dynamically rearrange things on pages): http://packery.metafizzy.co/faq.html
Data tables: http://datatables.net/ http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/194916/Enhancing-HTML-tables-using-a-JQuery-DataTables-pl https://github.com/DataTables/DataTables.git (includes info/examples on server-side processing for thousands of records) (also see: Server-side handling of datatables)
Another data grid (Flexigrid; not updated often): http://flexigrid.info/
A data grid based on backbone: http://loicfrering.github.io/backbone.datagrid/
Another data grid (looks very nice): https://github.com/mleibman/SlickGrid/wiki/Examples
Keep static (floating) table headers: http://mkoryak.github.io/floatThead
Bootstrap Table (fixed headers, show/hide columns, sortable, card view, etc. Awesome!) http://wenzhixin.net.cn/p/bootstrap-table/docs/index.html https://github.com/wenzhixin/bootstrap-table
Carousel: https://kenwheeler.github.io/slick/
Slideshow: http://jquery.malsup.com/cycle2/
Syntax highlighting: http://prismjs.com/ http://highlightjs.org/
Animation: https://daneden.me/animate/ http://coding.smashingmagazine.com/2011/09/14/the-guide-to-css-animation-principles-and-examples/
Three-dimensional menu (move mouse to left side to open) http://lab.hakim.se/meny/
Presentations (eg, powerpoint in HTML) http://lab.hakim.se/reveal-js
Canvas resize: https://gokercebeci.com/dev/canvasresize
Canvas functions: http://iwhitcomb.github.io/dynamocanvas/
Credit card number validator: http://paweldecowski.github.io/jQuery-CreditCardValidator/
JQuery modification highlighter: http://dougestep.com/dme/jquery-modification-highlighter-widget
Front-end data validation: http://reactiveraven.github.io/jqBootstrapValidation/
"Are You Sure?" message when leaving a page with changed data: https://github.com/codedance/jquery.AreYouSure
"Is Loading" message https://github.com/hekigan/is-loading
"growler" notification boxes: https://github.com/ifightcrime/bootstrap-growl
Pop-up dialog boxes: http://docs.toddish.co.uk/popup/
Simple modal dialog box: http://www.ericmmartin.com/projects/simplemodal/
Nifty Bootstrap 3 Dialog boxes: http://nakupanda.github.io/bootstrap3-dialog/
Bootstrap-themed jQuery UI Widgets http://addyosmani.github.io/jquery-ui-bootstrap/
Front-end widgets: http://alloyui.com/
Bootstrapper for Laravel: http://bootstrapper.aws.af.cm/ (this is an old Laravel bundle)
Additional controls for bootstrap (including a wizard): http://exacttarget.github.io/fuelux Checkbox Combobox Datagrid Datepicker Pillbox Preloader Radio Scheduler Search Select Spinner Tree Wizard
Plugins for extending bootstrap: http://tutorialzine.com/2013/07/50-must-have-plugins-for-extending-twitter-bootstrap/
Twitter Bootstrap Wizard http://vadimg.com/twitter-bootstrap-wizard-example/# https://github.com/VinceG/twitter-bootstrap-wizard
Another Bootstrap Wizard http://www.panopta.com/2013/02/06/bootstrap-application-wizard-2/
Money masks: http://plentz.github.io/jquery-maskmoney/
Type ahead: http://twitter.github.io/typeahead.js/
Tag autocomplete (like twitter hashes, etc.): http://sandglaz.github.io/bootstrap-tagautocomplete/
Autocomplete: http://hillelcoren.com/flex-autocomplete/
In-place editing for jquery (works with ajax): http://www.appelsiini.net/projects/jeditable http://vitalets.github.io/x-editable/
A nice JQuery UI Date/Time picker: https://github.com/trentrichardson/jQuery-Timepicker-Addon http://trentrichardson.com/examples/timepicker/
Bootstrap-compatible date picker: http://eternicode.github.io/bootstrap-datepicker/
Calendar: https://github.com/arshaw/fullcalendar https://github.com/jarnokurlin/fullcalendar (includes resource views)
Prettier select boxes: http://harvesthq.github.io/chosen/ http://brianreavis.github.io/selectize.js/
Pretty select box; searching, remote data sets, infinite scrolling: (awesome, but the select box grows as items are added) http://ivaynberg.github.io/select2/
Skins for select2 to work with Bootstrap3: https://github.com/t0m/select2-bootstrap-css/tree/bootstrap3 http://fk.github.io/select2-bootstrap-css/
Pretty select box; groupable, stays on one line http://wenzhixin.net.cn/p/multiple-select/docs/ https://github.com/wenzhixin/multiple-select
Multiselection widget: (old/abandoned) http://www.erichynds.com/blog/jquery-ui-multiselect-widget
Tree-style multiselect: http://travistidwell.com/jquery.treeselect.js/ https://github.com/travist/jquery.treeselect.js
Multiselect with Inactive/Active lists (two boxes) http://loudev.com/ https://github.com/lou/multi-select
Type ahead http://twitter.github.io/typeahead.js/examples/
Auto-size text fields (autogrow textarea input type): http://www.jacklmoore.com/autosize/
Javascript editor -- CKEditor: http://ckeditor.com http://docs.ckeditor.com/#!/guide/dev_configuration
Another nice Javascript editor -- TinyMCE: http://www.tinymce.com/index.php
Editors can upload files with a file manager. Some interesting ones:
http://www.moxiemanager.com/ (paid, but very nice)
https://github.com/barryvdh/laravel-elfinder https://github.com/Studio-42/elFinder http://elfinder.org/
(I like the interface, but it's slow...): https://github.com/simogeo/Filemanager
Interface for File Uploads: http://blueimp.github.io/jQuery-File-Upload/index.html
Other jquery-based file managers: http://www.jquery4u.com/plugins/10-jquery-file-manager-plugins/
Font Awesome (various icons): http://fortawesome.github.io/Font-Awesome/
"State Face" icons: http://propublica.github.io/stateface/
Image cropping with jquery: http://deepliquid.com/content/Jcrop.html
Before/After image slider: https://github.com/NUKnightLab/juxtapose
Huge list of frontend resources: https://github.com/dypsilon/frontend-dev-bookmarks
cool demo of backbone.js: http://www.sinbadsoft.com/blog/backbone-js-by-example-part-1/
Another cool demo at: http://coenraets.org/directory/# http://coenraets.org/blog/2012/02/sample-app-with-backbone-js-and-twitter-bootstrap/
"Hello World" of increasing complexity in backbone at: http://arturadib.com/hello-backbonejs/
Example of using list/detail for an RSS reader: http://vojtajina.github.io/WebApp-CodeLab/FinalProject/index.html https://github.com/GoogleChrome/wReader-app
AngularJS directives for Bootstrap: http://mgcrea.github.io/angular-strap/
Installs packages and dependencies (eg, jquery, etc.) https://github.com/bower/bower
Another method: https://github.com/component/component
Introduction to Web Components http://slides.com/jasonmayes/introduction-to-web-components
Latchet - Laravel-specific wrapper for Ratchet https://github.com/sidneywidmer/Latchet
Ratchet - Awesome php websockets library Ratchet: http://socketo.me/
(client and server) http://sphinxsearch.com/docs/2.1.2/ https://github.com/scalia/sphinxsearch http://www.andrehonsberg.com/article/install-sphinxsearch-205-in-ubuntu-1204-server
https://lucene.apache.org/solr/
http://css.dzone.com/articles/automated-code-reviews-php
Laravel 4 online reservation system, YARS (Yet Another Reservation System (looks dead...)): https://github.com/alariva/yars
Missing pet flyer https://github.com/msurguy/missingpetflyer
Awesome Invoicing System: https://www.invoiceninja.com/ https://github.com/hillelcoren/invoice-ninja
Laravel Tricks Site: https://github.com/CodepadME/laravel-tricks
Forum built in PHP / Laravel 4.2: https://github.com/summerblue/phphub
Laravel 5 Wiki https://github.com/vi-kon/laravel-wiki
Top Cute Animals: http://topcuteanimals.com/ https://github.com/ukjadoon/topcuteanimals
http://driesvints.com/ http://culttt.com/ http://antjanus.com/blog/ http://fideloper.com/ http://maxoffsky.com/category/code-blog/ http://keltdockins.com/tags/laravel/ https://medium.com/laravel-4/ http://www.mdswanson.com/
Migrate from Laravel 4 to Laravel 5 http://slashnode.com/definitive-laravel-4-to-laravel-5-migration-guide/
Best practice for responding to AJAX request? http://forums.laravel.io/viewtopic.php?id=2508
How do you take your project from development to production? http://forums.laravel.io/viewtopic.php?pid=32807#p32807
Uploading files? http://forums.laravel.io/viewtopic.php?id=2022
Validating an input array and normal inputs. (eg, 'items' => 'required|min:1|integerOrArray') http://forums.laravel.io/viewtopic.php?id=13146 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18161785/validation-of-array-form-fields-in-laravel-4-error/18163546#18163546
Validation services: http://jasonlewis.me/article/laravel-advanced-validation
Events: http://jasonlewis.me/article/laravel-events
Controller/Layout testing: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16607310/laravel-controller-layout-testing
View Composers: http://heera.it/laravel-4-view-composer-master-layout#.UmTaM_l00RU
Multi-select filter search: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18127040/multi-select-filter-search-in-laravel-4
Beanstalkd (a work queue, which can run queued jobs) with Laravel: http://fideloper.com/ubuntu-beanstalkd-and-laravel4
Ruby / Hexagonal Architecture http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGN4RFkhH2M
Design Patterns in PHP http://github.com/domnikl/DesignPatternsPHP
Wizard with Bootstrap and AngularJS: http://onehungrymind.com/ng-animate-first-look-with-angularjs-wizard/
Recurring calendar events: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14866343/reoccurring-calendar-events
http://help.infusionsoft.com/api-docs http://api.namastelight.com/