laravel/docs — pull request #587 by anlutro (2014-01-03 09:05:44+00:00)
Title: Paragraph on PHP: The Right Way

So this is more of a general suggestion than a request to add this exact text to the documentation, but the docs are sorely missing information that going from raw PHP or Wordpress development to Laravel isn't going to be smooth. So many times in IRC you have to help people who don't even know how to add variables to a string, or that if you echo a boolean it gets cast to a string, or the difference between a static and non-static method, or that you can't have two classes with the same name.

PHP: The Right Way is (in my opinion) a good resource, but you could just as easily just add some links to PHP.net's documentation on stuff like OOP and closures.