The SitePoint PHP blog has posted the fourth part in their "REST App with Laravel and EmberJS" series today. In this latest tutorial they focus in on the frontend and investigate how Ember works how to get started in your application.

In this part, we will see how Ember works, how to use Ember Data and how to build something simple with it. Router, Route, Model, Template and Store are some of the concepts of Ember. I’m not going to explain every one of those, so if you feel stuck, use the documentation.

They dive right into the code, getting a simple Ember "App" instance set up and configured. They add in a REST adapter to connect it to the backend API and lay out a few of the routes. They then create the models to represent the data and link each to a route. Next they get into views and creating the interface and frontend markup (using Handlebars templating). A gif is included showing the results and how things should look at this point.

In the latest post to the SitePoint PHP blog Aleksander Koko continues with his series about creating an application with PHP and EmberJS with a look at building databases. In the first part of the series he introduced the main toolset and set up a simple Laravel application inside of a Homestead instance. This latest post builds on that platform.

In this part, we will create the structure of the database. We will create the tables using migrations and seed the database using seeders. Also, you will learn how to grab some random images from LoremPixel and put them on the filesystem using Flysystem. You’ll also be adding some randomly generated data using the Faker library. Much like with part 1, you can download this part’s code from github.

He shows you how to get all the needed libraries installed and run the migrate command to create the needed tables. He also helps you set up a Dropbox application so you can use their API and configure the application with your API settings. Next he modifies the migrations and seeds the sample data. Next up he makes the models for each of the tables and integrates Faker to populate them with better seed data, making seeder classes to handle some of the more custom logic.

The SitePoint PHP blog has kicked off another series of posts today with part one of a series looking at building an application based on the Laravel PHP framework and EmberJS.

Nowadays, everything is turning into a web application. Even simple websites have a mobile app relying on a REST Api. Web applications are accessible everywhere – on a laptop, desktop, tablet, mobile, and recently on wearable devices like smartwatches. Everything is becoming smaller and faster – front ends are becoming separated from back ends, and only communicate with the server through APIs. In this series, we are going to create a photo uploading app. For the front-end, we will use EmberJs and Foundation 5. [...] For the back-end, we will use Laravel. The source code will be available per-part, and in final shape in the final part of this series.

They go with the Laravel Homestead virtual machine (and Vagrant) to make for a quick setup and stable environment. They help you get it all set up to push up to Heroku and get all needed dependencies, both frontend and backend, installed. They also walk you through the setup of the database, configuring the connection and deploying the application to production.

The Three Devs & a Maybe podcast has released the latest episode of their podcast - episode #23, EmberJS with Lamin Sanneh. While the main subject matter talks about Javascript frameworks (and EmberJS in particular), there is still some PHP-related content later down the line.

This episode we are lucky to have special-guest Lamin Sanneh on the show to discuss all things EmberJS. Looking at the current JavaScript framework landscape, we move on to highlight what makes EmberJS stand-out from the crowd. Finally, we have an ad-hoc quiz which helps highlight PHP function aliases and JavaScript's 'this' context binding.

PHP topics included portable UTF-8 and the join function. You can check out this latest episode either through the in-page player or by downloading the mp3 directly.