Laravel

Using Laravel 4 + Eloquent With WordPress

Before I used Laravel, I used Codeigniter and I had the perfect workflow of being able to use WordPress as the administration panel, taxonomy system, authentication, users and post types. I hate having to create administration panels from my previous experience working for a WordPress development agency, as the admin packages out there are complicated, don’t work correctly and are severely lacking in the features department. In Laravel 4, the process for integrating WordPress is basically the same. You disable the theming functionality and include the WordPress blog-header bootstrapping file to include WordPress’ core functionality and features.

How To Create A User Following/Follower System Like Twitter In Laravel 4

Laravel is undoubtedly one of the best things to happen to PHP and you’ve probably guessed based on my post history, I really like it and want to expose more people to its cool features and help the PHP ecosystem move away from the stigma of all PHP code being bad. Today, in this tutorial like post I will be explaining how you can add in a user following system like Twitter, Quora or any other social network that allows you to follow another user and have users follow you.