Any “famous” sites built with Laravel?

https://laravel.com https://laracasts.com

Why would be interested in any other :P

@jlrdw why don't you try to answer his question correctly instead of just a random statement about something he didn't ask for? You literally answered the opposite of what he asked for...

Anyways.. I'm working for a company in Denmark, we use Laravel, and serves roughly 1000 users a day in our platform In Denmark we're kinda famous

Well I wont say there are many big brand sites that are on Laravel yet, but there are quite a few new brands that are enjoying the Laravel awesomeness. Here are a few good examples to look into

Deltanet Travel. 
Neighborhood Lender. 
Laravel Tricks. 
World Walking. 
Mack Hankins. 
LaravelIO. 
FusionInvoice. 
Cachet.

Thanks for all the replies. Don't get me wrong, I understand that this is a bit of an annoying question. Let me explain why I'm asking.

I'm working for a startup just now who have just received some serious (serious!) venture capital funding.

I have built their platforms up to this point in Laravel and our native apps are also hitting Laravel for the API.

I'm wondering WHY there are no really big (in terms if users and platform interactions) organisations using Laravel, as I intend to continue building with Laravel. Am I digging my own grave.

@jlrdw Wow that's some world class, top quality mansplaining going on there. Well done :-)

@jlrdw and as if any of those companies listed had just ONE website !

I guess part of the challenge is that a) established 'major' sites made their architecture decisions a long time ago and b) they are not likely to advertise their architecture and c) their deployments are going to be varied depending on the use case.

(unless you are twitter and all their famous fail-whale issues which told everyone they were a Rails shop)

Perhaps this will help;

https://trends.builtwith.com/websitelist/Laravel

Its interesting to look at some of the 600,000 sites listed.

Going back to my earlier comment, CathayPacific may not use it on their main site, but they probably have a lot of small properties such as their careers site which is using Laravel https://careers.cathaypacific.com/

why isnt PHP good for entreprise systems?

It is fine for small Enterprise just not large Enterprise but you'd really have to go back and study the history and making of PHP.

For example you are not going to find PHP used in a large supply chain like Sam's Walmart systems it just ain't going to do it.

And as far as laravel is concerned, that shouldn't really be applicable to the question rather it should be a technology question, i.e., Who uses what technology and why namely:

Who uses

• php
• java
• asp.net
• ColdFusion

Etc

Weather laravel or yii2 or cakephp or plain php, it's the technology used not the framework that matters.

But I do like laravel for PHP the best Taylor made it very easy to use and very flexible.

But PHP could be used for large Enterprise but you would need C++ classes compiled for some of the heavy hitting.

I came from java Enterprise I am semi-retired now and PHP and laravel is perfect for the smaller sites I do sometimes.

but I also have a custom framework and I have written and have updated overtime to stay up-to-date with the latest PHP.

Usually a very large company first of all is not going to use any framework usually they have proprietary in house custom code tailored to the exact needs of the company.

That's all folks

More mis-information. 'Enterprise class' websites are not written as huge monoliths anymore - although of course there are a lot of them out there still.

'Enterprise class' websites are not written as huge monoliths anymore

Just take CH Robinson as an example. They have offices all over the U.S. and all over the World. They probably do more database transactions in a week than all on this forum members combined does in a year.

Their software infra structure cost is a good 23 million dollars.

You cannot have that large of a logistics setup without monolith.

Now for more education:

Modern enterprise leverage many technologies

As an example, the State of Texas uses java technology, very business looking in the background for employees.

However

The part the public sees and uses is not the same, it's prettied with all the bells and stuff, pretty css, JS, etc.

I believe it's Landstar that also uses PHP for some of their stuff. But not the heavy logistics stuff in the background.

So many enterprise will use a vast array of technologies.

And how do you define a

famous site

All sites are famous to their owner, and mean something.

@jlrdw have you personally been involved in a company being built from the ground up, since 2015, or is your experience limited to what these old companies were doing 20 years ago? Have you built a laravel app, using centralized storage, redis, load balancers and multiple app workers? Or have you just built laravel apps that run on a single server?

I am not a server person but I built the software ground up at a trucking company, it was Java but had help with the server stuff.

Worked for State of Tx, was java.

After being semi retired did a Humane Society site for quite a while, it was PHP.

But that was shared hosting.

And mostly just some small projects here and there. Been using laravel since 4.2.

But I knew I.T. Folks at CH Robinson, and out of curiosity I plucked their mind on the kind of software and stuff they used and they went over it with me.

The thing is Java technology has much longer backwards compatibility therefore that's why Enterprise's drawn to it.

The longer backwards compatibility is part of the design spec.

Out of curiosity one day I installed the latest Java EE and sure enough my old code from over 11 years ago still worked.

Of course I realize that if used for real things like the hashing of passwords and security would have to be updated it's not a real app anymore but I was just curious if it would still work.

anyway not everyone uses mix and libraries and packages a lot of people still write custom CSS and their own custom Js.

I tried bootstrap one time it's okay, but if you have a site where many pages uses different custom themes that the customer wants then bootstrap just doesn't make no sense that's where custom CSS comes.

You have to remember any package or library used and even laravel the backbone core is still the basic language, like laravel has a backbone PHP and PDO, no big mystery there.

Some of the neat JavaScript libraries or packages, the guts is still JavaScript.

So I guess I am just used to writing my own CSS and custom media queries, and yes I do use jQuery not plain JavaScript.

But usually use JavaScript sparingly not overuse.

I guess another way of looking at it is sites today the backend code is basically the same has not changed over the years that much, where as front end has kind of come Leaps and Bounds with various beautifications.

But returning basic database results and the basic queries are the same.

TLDR: No, my experience is limited to working with Java many years ago before I semi-retired. Since then I've played around with laravel and php and built a site for the Humane Society on shared hosting, but haven't used it in any significant way and don't know about horizontal scaling.

Fully stocked with popcorn!

Not sure on Laravel, but PHP runs numerous large scale sites. Just look at Wikipedia and Wordpress.com. Large parts of Facebook still run on PHP as well.

whitehouse.gov is now on Wordpress. During Obama's years it was on Drupal. Numerous US government sites still use Drupal.

When you look at Enterprise, it's more common than not to see numerous different languages and frameworks powering the various services that make up their entire online presence.

@jlrdw you only have experience of one language Java with a bit of php/.net (Sorry didnt want to read your big post, just skim read it)..

my last post wasnt a question it was directly aimed at your first post saying php cant be used for entreprise..

and your you cannot have that large revenue/whatever without a monolithic

are you insane? yes you can - microservices isnt just an inferior thing that wont be handle 1000s transactions - in fact thats the reason why people build microservices so they want to be able to handle 1000 transactions..

Facebook and the BBC website?

BBC was written using a combination of Zend and RoR for many years and they don't come much bigger. They have since migrated to NodeJs using ExpressJs.

I work with micro services and of course you can write an enterprise app without a monolith, that's the point. Netflix is a blue chip micro service solution.

I have a couple friends who worked on a FedEx shipping site a few years ago. It was built using PHP. (They think it still is)

I'm a veteran PHP, Java and C#.Net developer. (I do C# now and did Java for 8 years for my day job) I'd put any of my PHP sites up against any of my Java sites and the performance of PHP would run circles around Java. In my experience, Java requires WAY more resources to run enterprise apps. (I've spent way too many hours into tweaking WebSphere to not bog down and die) Not sure what you worked on in Java, @jirdw but it must have been pretty light.

You also got really lucky running your 11 year old code on modern Java EE. Anything substantial we did would often break with the next EE release which almost always contained breaking changes.

I only worked with JSP, servlets and Beans. The spec from oracles says:

Q: Can applications written for prior versions of Java EE run in a Java EE 6 implementation?

And answer:

Java EE applications that are written to the J2EE 1.3, J2EE 1.4, or Java EE 5 specification will run on a Java EE 6 implementation. Backwards compatibility is a requirement of the specification.

I tested some old code using Java EE 7 that was written using J2EE 1.4, in other words quite a while back.

You are probably right, some of the code, perhaps JSF (Java server faces) code might not work.

I never used JSF, only JSP, servlets and Beans. I think some of the imports changed, like:

import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
etc.

But the basics, all worked, like in the servlet: and this is just from a test database I use:

protected void doGet(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response)
    throws ServletException, IOException {
        pdao.PetDAO petDAO = new pdao.PetDAO();
        String t1;
        t1 = request.getParameter("t1");
        petDAO.sett1(t1);
        try {
        List<Pet> pets = petDAO.list();
        request.setAttribute("pets", pets);
        request.getRequestDispatcher("petlist.jsp").forward(request, response);
    //above line sends data to view
    } catch (SQLException e) {
        throw new ServletException("error msg here", e);
    }
        
    }

Was all good

But you are right their may be small tweaks here and there.

But I don't mess with java any more.

Someone mentioned netflix, java is used on the backend.

And I already mentioned that many large enterprise will use several technologies, including php. It just depends on where and how.

Oh the php written thing for fedex is an api they have for any language

https://www.easypost.com/fedex-php-api.html

One for java

https://www.easypost.com/fedex-java-api.html

It's just to use the api.

But their software is java, a recent job post

COMPANY: FedEx Services JOB TITLE: Software Developer - Java All Levels JOB REQUISITION NUMBER: RC32010 CATEGORY: General LOCATIONS: Collierville, Tennessee 38017 United States JOB DESCRIPTION: The responsibility of this position is for developing and implementing Enterprise Customer solutions. This position will also have a heavy focus on the development for identifying, matching, and building associations for customer contacts. Duties for this role include but not limited to design, document, code, test, and deploy software to support the software development life cycle. May develop prototypes and solutions using a diverse range of technology. Apply modern principles, methodologies, tools, and systemic processed to support the launch of new business capabilities. KNOWLEDGE/SKILLS CONSIDERED A PLUS: * JAVA/JMS/Spring/SOAP Web Services * Server side background * Oracle, SQL, Data Modelling skills * Analytical/problem solving skills * Master Data Management background * Experience with...

another job

Company: FedEx Services Job Title: Software Developer (All Levels) Job Requisition Number: RC34934 Category: General Locations: Irving, Texas 75063 United States

Duties for this role include but not limited to design, document, code, test, and deploy software to support the software development life cycle. May develop prototypes and solutions using a diverse range of technology. Apply modern principles, methodologies, tools, and systemic processed to support the launch of new business capabilities.

Duties for this role include but not limited to design, document, code, test, and deploy software to support the software development life cycle. May develop prototypes and solutions using a diverse range of technology. Apply modern principles, methodologies, tools, and systemic processed to support the launch of new business capabilities. Skills Considered a Plus: • Angular • Web Services • Jenkins • GIT • Java, J2EE and associated components (JSP, JMS) • C++ • Oracle/RDBMS/SQL

Notice the

(JSP, JMS) • C++

But I admit php has come a very long way since php 4.

The only true answer to the OP's original question is

Yes

Like I said everyone's site is famous to them and the owner of the site.

Dang I ran out of popcorn.

Hey OP,

Not entirely sure what you consider a "famous" website, however, check out this website: https://stackshare.io/laravel

On there you can find who/company uses what, why they use it and what it stacks up to other frameworks/technology. I hope that helps you out!

@Vanish not sure about now, but FedEx used to use Drupal for their newsroom.

https://dri.es/fedex-using-drupal

FedEx may be using Java now, but their shipping site was originally written in PHP by Visionary Systems. Not the API. The site itself.

notkutusu.com

@jlrdw I've told you a million times, don't exaggerate !

In Brazil, there are some nice projects going on using Laravel.

We have LeroyMerlin, a company that sells mainly supply for construction. As briefly explained in this video(unfortunately it is in Portuguese), they talk how they scaled up the "app" to support huge amounts of request. I consider it an example of 'big brand' site in our country.

@jlrdw Why are you bleating on about “the history of PHP” and enterprise when @Mick79 just asked if any famous sites were built using Laravel? We get it: you don’t think Laravel is for enterprise. It’s an opinion, and just like something else, everybody has one.

Wow, kind of sad to see the responses to this... I work at Cisco, and we use Laravel on some of our projects. To say that PHP/Laravel is not good for enterprise level projects is partially false (mostly inaccurate).

From a DevOps perspective it can be a bit of a struggle to scale a Laravel/PHP application, but I can assure you that it is possible!

Maybe we should put together a guide to running Laravel/PHP applications at scale for enterprise?

Maybe we should put together a guide to running Laravel/PHP applications at scale for enterprise?

@ibourgeois I’d be keen to see that.

I'm sorry, why can't PHP run on big websites? Why can't PHP scale? Like concrete facts and information. "Language X is just better" is not a valid argument. Like I want some concrete arguments why PHP 7 cannot run enterprise, because I still haven't seen one in this entire thread.

Sure, PHP 4 and 5, well... sucked... But let's forget about history for now and focus on present. PHP 7 completely rocks. Sure it has it's quirks but no language is perfect. And it's not about the language. It's about the developer and system architecture. Use caching, proper code architecture, optimise your code, do load balancers (or whatever is done on the server, I'm stupid) and you're good to go.

Unless you have a properly built app running PHP 7 and Laravel 5.6 that doesn't handle a shit ton of requests/sec, I don't see the point of saying "PHP/Laravel cannot handle scaling". Also, I believe some parts of Facebook are still running on PHP?

The company I know of in Croatia has 100k registered users, a shit ton of database transactions per day, running a lot of external API and it works flawlessly on Laravel.

AAAAND finally... let's take a look at this dumpster fire that is Wordpress. It's code is probably the worst I have ever seen, and it still runs 30% of the web and does it well, some big players are using WP as their CMS of choice. If you get to the scale of Twitter or Facebook, you can hire yourself top devs that can scale your app with no hiccups. Until then, you don't have to worry.