Laravel is a clean and classy framework for PHP web development. Freeing you from spaghetti code, Laravel helps you create wonderful applications using simple, expressive syntax. Development should be a creative experience that you enjoy, not something that is painful. Enjoy the fresh air.
### Quickly Build Beautiful Applications
Stay true to the web with RESTful routing:
'GET /' => function()
{
return View::make('home.index');
}
Laravel serves as a great framework for writing everything from JSON APIs to full web applications. You can use RESTful routes and anonymous functions to quickly build beautiful applications, or use controllers to organize your creation:
class Home_Controller extends Controller {
public function action_index()
{
return View::make('home.index');
}
}
### Wonderfully Expressive Syntax
Laravel strives to provide intuitive, expressive syntax. Code should be immediately readable and understandable. Need to redirect to a named route and flash something to the session? Here's how:
Laravel makes common tasks refreshingly simple. What other frameworks make drudgery Laravel makes blissful. Need to flash input to the session and redirect to a form? It's a breeze:
return Redirect::to('register')->with_input();
Then access the previous request's input using the Input class:
echo Input::old('email');
### Dead Simple Data Access
Laravel provides several ways to access your data, ranging from raw SQL to a beautiful little ORM. MySQL, Postgres, and SQLite are supported out of the box.
Retrieve a blog post and eagerly load the comments using Eloquent ORM:
$posts = Post::with('comments')->find(1);
Use the fluent query builder to execute SQL statements:
