laravel4cookbook

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21 $archiver = App::make("ArchiverInterface");
These extra nine lines (using the App::bind() and App::make() methods) tell Laravel 4 how to
find/make new class instances, so we can get to the business of using them!
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You can learn more about IoC container at: http://laravel.com/docs/ioc.
Service Providers
The main purpose of services providers is to collect and organise the bootstrapping requirements of
your package. They’re not strictly a requirement of package development; but rather a Really Good
Idea.
There are three big things to service providers. The first is that they are registered in a common
configuration array (in app/config/app.php):
1 'providers' => array(
2 'Illuminate\Foundation\Providers\ArtisanServiceProvider',
3 'Illuminate\Auth\AuthServiceProvider',
4 'Illuminate\Cache\CacheServiceProvider',
5 // ...
6 'Illuminate\Validation\ValidationServiceProvider',
7 'Illuminate\View\ViewServiceProvider',
8 'Illuminate\Workbench\WorkbenchServiceProvider',
9 ),
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This was extracted from app/config/app.php.
You can also add your own service providers to this list; as many packages will recommend you do.
There there’s the register() method: