Laravel

Laravel is a free, open source PHP web application framework for the development of web applications following the model–view–controller (MVC) architectural pattern.

Prominent Laravel features include :

• Expressive syntax
• A modular packaging system with a dedicated dependency manager
• Different ways for accessing relational databases
• Various utilities that aid in application deployment and maintenance

According to a December 2013 developers survey on PHP frameworks popularity, Laravel was listed as the most popular PHP framework of 2013, followed by Phalcon, Symfony2, CodeIgniter and others. As of August 2014, Laravel is the most popular and watched PHP project on GitHub.

Laravel is released under the MIT License, with its source code hosted on GitHub.

External links

• Official home page
• Getting started with Laravel a collection of programming examples
• Laravel cheat sheet a collection of quick reference notes
• Laravel 4.1 API reference
• Deploying Laravel 5.0 on OpenShift
• Lumen, a speed-oriented micro framework by Laravel, April 15, 2015
• Laravel source code repository on GitHub
• Laravel @ Wikipedia