title: Laravel Application start events
body: <p>Coming from an ASP.NET MVC background I'm building my first PHP app and have been using the Laravel framework. I'm used to having application start events. This provides a convenient method to do things like populate cache objects and set timers to ensure these cache object refresh with my storage regularly prior to the app serving any requests.</p>
  
  <p>This means that lists of stuff are already there rather than being retrieved from the server on every request. I can't find any similar application start hooks for Laravel or indeed PHP off which Laravel is based.</p>
  
  <p>I can of course just Lazy load cache objects on demand. This means one or two requests will suffer increased latency as they will result in trips to the database server. Not unacceptable but wondered what the PHP/Laravel solution to this problem is.</p>
  
  <p>Thanks,</p>