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jchereau's avatar

php developer without experience in laravel to a new project, laravel 4 o 5??

Hi, I have some experience in BAD PHP, begin a new personal project and need begin put order and a framework.

I decide use LARAVEL, but need read all information to study fast I cant.

I know now it's time to laravel 5.1, but I believe I have more examples with 4.0.

¿What you recommend to me, 5.0 or 4.0??

I have no experience in MVC,

thank's

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JeffreyWay's avatar

Regardless of your skill level, you should start with the latest version of Laravel.

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Corbin's avatar

Honestly, take some courses from phpacademy, lynda.com, or team treehouse (they have a free trials). Focus hard on OOP for a month, or so if you haven't already and then come back and start watching videos, until it sinks in. Start with the course in OOP on the site and work your way into Laravel 5 fundamentals

It's good if you just use the current version of laravel. If you have cemented yourself in basics the directory structure will make sense to you, regardless of what version is being used in the tutorials.

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EliasSoares's avatar

Start using the latest version as Jeffrey said. But in prior to use Laravel properly, you must know PHP OOP to understand somethings at Laravel.

Also you must know about using composer, a little bit about linux will be good too.

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vincej's avatar

Laravel is like driving a formula 1 car. It appears to be easy until you get into the drivers seat. Then you discover very quickly that you need to do a lot of work before you can really make good use of the features. TAKE YOUR TIME. This stuff looks easy on the surface, but in fact is quite challenging.

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Kryptonit3's avatar

If you live in the united states and have a public library card, treehouse is free.

jchereau's avatar

vincej, yes I ask just because that, I have experience in OOP, large experience in LINUX, java and database, but problem it's just laravel and all CMD automatize tasks...

Because that I ask about examples and I found more examples to 4.0 , but I try whit 5.0.

IsaacBen's avatar

Start with 5, it comes with user login built in, saves a lot of work.

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jchereau's avatar

itzikbenh, excellent, great tip, I'm just preoccupied about this and see some examples about that.

jekinney's avatar
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A lot of "ways" and features are common between both 4 and 5. As stated the biggest difference is folder structure. There are numerous videos about the differences. As you noticed there aren't as many l5 specific tutorials because they are so similar. If you can read and understand the docs for PHP and laravel you'll be fine.

And welcome to laravel and laracasts!!!

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