Laravel 4 Beta released

Its a complete rewrite, and there is many new concepts. The syntax is however almost the same. A good list of new features can be found here: http://phpmaster.com/whats-new-in-laravel-4/

Re: Laravel 4 Beta released

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Post by stormpat » Fri, Jan 11, 2013, 7:13 PM UTC

perishabledave wrote: post #2

Can't seem to find a changelog, got a link for whats new?

The biggest is maybe the use of composer, its really changing PHP for the better.

Re: Laravel 4 Beta released

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Post by davedx » Fri, Jan 11, 2013, 7:41 PM UTC

Exciting! I've been using Laravel for all my new freelance PHP projects, and I'm really happy with it.

Re: Laravel 4 Beta released

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Post by bilalq » Fri, Jan 11, 2013, 7:47 PM UTC

Awesome. I was waiting on documentation before trying this out. I love that they're using Composer now.

Re: Laravel 4 Beta released

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Post by wesley » Fri, Jan 11, 2013, 7:47 PM UTC

Form and HTML helpers have been removed it seems, I wonder why?

Re: Laravel 4 Beta released

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Post by wldlyinaccurate » Fri, Jan 11, 2013, 7:52 PM UTC

I love Laravel, it's the simplest and most expressive PHP framework that I've used, and it does everything I want it to do out of the box. I really like that Laravel 4's API is practically identical to Laravel 3, too.

Btw you can browse the code on GitHub if you don't want to download it: https://github.com/laravel/framework

Re: Laravel 4 Beta released

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Post by camus » Fri, Jan 11, 2013, 7:58 PM UTC

PHP frameworks are finally becoming sane. Instead of re-inventing the wheel ,they share popular components wether it is from doctrine , symfony , etc ... The PSR stuff and composer is a huge step in the right direction , we are getting there , at last. another promise framework is Silex based on Symfony , it's easy to wire any symfony component through services and unlike Laravel it doesnt rely on Static methods or Singletons. silex.sensiolabs.org/