What is Laravel?

Laravel is a PHP-based web framework for building high-end web applications using its significant and graceful syntaxes.

It comes with a strong collection of tools and provides application architecture.

It includes various characteristics of technologies like ASP.NET MVC, CodeIgniter, Ruby on Rails, and a lot more.

This framework is an open-source framework.

It facilitates developers by saving a huge time and helps reduce the thinking and planning to develop the entire website from scratch.

About Laravel:

Laravel was developed by Taylor Otwell in July 2011 and it was released more than five years after the release of the Codeigniter.

Laravel is a PHP-based web framework like Codeigniter.

Laravel is one of the open-source PHP frameworks.

Laravel follows the model-view-controller (MVC) architectural pattern.

Laravel is one of the most popular PHP frameworks after Codeigniter.

Features of Laravel:

Routing controllers

Configuration management

Testability

Authentication and authorization of users

Modularity

ORM (Object Relational Mapper) features

Provides template engine

Building schemas

E-mailing facilities

What does laravel do?

Route Handling

Security Layer

Models & DB migrations

Views / Templates

Authentication

Sessions

Compile assets

Storage & File Management

Error Handling

Unit Testing

Email & Config

Cache Handling

What is a composer?

Laravel implements a composer for managing dependencies

URL to download composer

https://getcomposer.org/download/

How to set up Laravel?

download the installer of Laravel with the help of Composer

composer global requires "Laravel/installer"

Laravel includes the Artisan CLI Commands:

Creating controllers & models

Creating database migration files and running migrations

Create providers events jobs form requests, etc.

Show routes

Session commands

Run tinker

Create custom commands

Examples of Artisan Commands:

$ php artisan list

$ php artisan help migrate

$ php artisan make: controller CrudController

$ php artisan make: model Crud-m

$ php artisan make: migration add_crud_to_db-table=crud

$ php artisan migrate

$ php artisan tinker 

Eloquent ORM

Laravel includes the eloquent object-relational mapper

=> Makes querying & working with the DB very easy

=> We can still use row SQL queries if needed

Use App/Crud

$crud = new crud;

$crud->title = “New Crud”;

$crud->save();

Blade Template Engine:

Simple and powerful

Control structure (if-else, loops, etc)

Can you use

Template Inheritance: Extends layouts easily.

Can create custom components

@section(‘sidebar’)

This is the Maser sidebar

$show

@extends(‘layouts.app’)

@section(‘title’, ‘page title’)

@section(‘sidebar’)

@parent

this is appended to the master sidebar

@endsection

@section(‘content’)

this is my body content

@endsection

How to Install the laravel app

->>> composer create-project laravel/laravel crud app

how to make a controller in Laravel

->>> migrate database

Run laravel app

->>> php artisan serve

Mirate Table into Database

->>> php artisan migrate

Command to find the Laravel version

->>> php artisan --version

The root directory structure of Laravel