NOTES.md

Laravel Learning

Homestead

1. Homestead is a vagrant box with nginx, et al installed.
2. Edit the Homestead.yaml file so the domain name is what you want to be via: hostname: grandprix-run Then you would hosthack your workstations /etc/hosts file to include: 192.168.10.10 grandprix-run After you bring up the box you will be able to access it from: http://grandprix-run

Database, Models and Migrations

Example of making a db table, corresponding model and db seed:

1. You need to run these migration and db seed commands from within the vagrant box where the db lives
2. php artisan make:migration create_races_table --create=races
3. edit the 2015_12_09_043201_create_races_table.php file to have the proper fields, constraints, etc. Note you may need to make any tables that will be the source of a foreign key constraint first as IIUC the migrations are run in order by timestamp.
4. php artisan make:model Race
5. run php artisan migrate:install once or after you drop all tables if you wish to start over
6. edit database/seeds/DatabaseSeeder.php and add a new class to match your new model

   class GenderTableSeeder extends Seeder {
       public function run()
       {
           DB::table('genders')->delete();
           DB::table('genders')->insert(['name' =>'Female', 'abbreviation' => 'F']);
           DB::table('genders')->insert(['name' =>'Male', 'abbreviation' => 'M']);
       }
   }
   

   and run it from within the DatabaseSeeder.run() method:

   $this->call(GenderTableSeeder::class);
   $this->command->info('Genders table seeded!');
   

7. run php artisan db:seed
8. run mysql -u homestead -p homestead to see the new tables and data

Misc

php artisan vendor:publish This command I don't understand that well yet but can generate files and what not once you set it up properly and for external dependencies such as the Markdown one. More info