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<\/p>\nPHP is one of the oldest and most popular web development languages, and Laravel its most famed framework.<\/p>\n
The initial stages of development involve making wise decisions with choosing the right framework for your application. It probably counts among the most difficult development tasks. The general criteria\u00a0usually include \u2013 the cost of development, performance, speed, popularity third-party integrations, deployment, testing and many more that need deliberate consideration.\u00a0This all needs to be kept in mind before jumping onto any conclusions.<\/p>\n
Coming back to PHP – the scripting language provides a large variety of frameworks with robust technical capabilities such as \u2013 Laravel, Symfony, CodeIgniter, CakePHP\u00a0etc\u00a0– yet, Laravel has retained the top position. Let\u2019s clarify this with the help of a graph.<\/p>\n
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The graph above\u00a0shows how Laravel has hiked as compared to the other PHP web frameworks, over the last five years.<\/p>\n
Furthermore, it is also one of the most trending repositories on GitHub with almost 45000 stars (and counting).<\/p>\n
So, indubitably the framework offers some major advantages and unsurpassed features. This article will acquaint you with those capabilities that make Laravel the king of PHP.<\/p>\n
Object-Oriented Libraries Artisan<\/strong> Templating Engine<\/strong> Authorization Technique<\/strong> Security
\n<\/strong>The first and foremost reason behind Laravel\u2019s success is its Object Oriented libraries and\u00a0sundry other pre-installed ones, which are not found in any other popular PHP frameworks. For instance, Authentication Library is a pre-installed library provided in this framework. Along with easy installation, it is home to advanced features including checking active users, Bcrypt hashing,\u00a0password reset, CSRF (Cross-site Request Forgery) protection\u00a0and encryption.<\/p>\n
\nLaravel has its own command line interface named Artisan. It helps with publishing package assets, managing database migrations, seeding and generating boilerplate code for new controllers, models and migrations. Moreover, it liberates the developers\u00a0from creating proper code skeletons\u00a0and helps in extending\u00a0the functionality, capabilities by implementing new custom commands.<\/p>\n
\nLaravel comes with an inbuilt template engine known as Blade. Unlike controller layouts, Blade is driven by template inheritance and sections.\u00a0It simply combines one or more templates with a data model to produce resulting views, doing that by transpiring the templates into cached PHP code for improved performance. It also provides a set of its own control structures such as conditional statements and loops, which are internally mapped to their PHP counterparts.<\/p>\n
\nAuthentication is the most important part of any web application. Developers usually\u00a0have to spend a huge amount of time writing the authentication code. Luckily, Laravel understands this well. It makes implementation of authentication techniques a super simple\u00a0job. It provides an easy way to organize authorization logic and control access to resources, thus saving onto time and energy.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>With the usage of salted and hashed password, Laravel framework promises security. This means that a password will never be saved as plain text in the database.\u00a0A token is generated every time when a user logs-in which is difficult for the hackers to hack the web page.\u00a0Further, it makes use of predefined SQL statements, thereby, eliminating the injection attacks. There are nine security features in Laravel:<\/p>\n\n