Some links to reading material on OO PHP
http://code.tutsplus.com/tutorials/object-oriented-php-for-beginners–net-12762
http://knowpapa.com/procedural-to-oop/
http://www.davegardner.me.uk/blog/2010/11/21/why-you-should-always-use-php-interfaces/
Defining relationships in databases
http://blog.andreasartori.me/defining-relationships-among-database-tables-with-eloquent/
Some useful links:
http://laravel.com/docs/5.0/helpers#urls
call custom files (php or otherwise) into a laravel project. For me app.php file to which I added
'Helpers' => 'app\TradeLogic\engine'
was in config/app.php
The app.php file didn’t help.
What actually worked was adding :
include_once (__DIR__.'/../resources/views/engine.php');
to the file bootstrap/autoload.php
The path shown is from the location of the autoload file.
Migrations
To drop a column, need to run “composer require doctrine/dbal” otherwise a rollback that drops a column will fail.
If the filename of a migration got changed, or it got deleted, the ‘php artisan migrate’ command will complain. Need to run ‘composer dumpautoload’ shich will fix things.