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Gabe

Laravel looks so nice. I’ve been dying to try it out, was considering switching my current cms from grav to octobercms just so I can give laravel a real shot!

Any recommended readings for those new to laravel and php in general?

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Mina Farag

You know, you will never regret trying laravel. It’s a powerful , clean and beautiful platform.

You can find useful laravel resources in :

  • Laravel.com /documentaries
  • Laracasts.com
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Gabe

Gave OctoberCMS a try tonight and got a chance to use laravel. I’m hooked, going to build out a custom template and use that as a new blog. Thank you for this!

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Mina Farag

OctoberCMS is super painful to me. Actually am a #laravel fan

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Gabe

Really? Interesting - mind sharing what you dislike about it?

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Mina Farag

sorry for replying late. but i was away for a while. Actually i hate how OctoberCms messes with the way things organized and functioned. If you were used to MCV pattern and Model-view-controller ways of hierarchy your code, You will find it super weird to deal with so called components and default.htm and so so confusing stuff.

it wasted tons of my hours trying to fix bugs and make it work smoothly for one of my customers. as a senior developer am not recommending it anymore specially for people with a huge laravel background.