Laravel Essential Training

Course details

Laravel, the open-source PHP web framework, has become one of the most widely used ecosystems for building scalable apps at lightning-quick speed. If you’re a PHP developer looking to take your career to the next level, this course was made for you. Join instructor Shruti Balasa as she takes you on a journey through the fundamentals of the Laravel framework.

Learn about MVC architecture, how the Laravel framework is structured, routes and controllers, Blade files, models, and best practices for interacting with a database. Get tips on using various components in Laravel as you build your own simple note-taking app. From user authentication and routing to CRUD operations and database relations, find out why the latest version, Laravel 11, allows you to build web apps quickly and easily, no matter where you are on your coding journey.

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Meet Laravel
02 - What you should know
03 - Understand the MVC architecture
04 - Using Codespaces with this course

1. Laravel Basics - Routes, Views, and Controllers

05 - Serve the application
06 - Handle routing
07 - Creating a view
08 - Building layouts with Blade
09 - Working with controllers
10 - Challenge - Create a controller and a view, then add a route
11 - Solution - Create a controller and a view, then add a route

2. Laravel Basics - Configuration, Database, Migrations, and Eloquent

12 - Understand Laravel configuration
13 - Working with the database
14 - Creating and running migrations
15 - Creating models and using Eloquent
16 - Challenge - Create a migration to add a column and update a row
17 - Solution - Create a migration to add a column and update a row

3. Starting Your Project

18 - Understand the project requirements
19 - Add authentication with Laravel Breeze
20 - Adding styles to the project
21 - Create the first model, migration, controller, and routes
22 - Register resource routes
23 - Challenge - Create a new resource
24 - Solution - Create a new resource

4. Creating, Indexing, and Showing

25 - Add an index method to fetch all notes
26 - Create an index view to display all notes
27 - Add pagination and clean up the index view
28 - Add a create method and view to show a form
29 - Add a store action to save the data
30 - Add a show action and view to display single note
31 - Create a unique ID for each note
32 - Challenge - Add index and create methods for a new resource
33 - Solution - Add index and create methods for a new resource

5. Editing, Updating, and Deleting

34 - Add an edit method and view to allow editing of the note
35 - Add an update method to update edited data
36 - Add a destroy method to delete a note
37 - Show flash data to users
38 - Challenge - Update notes with a new resource
39 - Solution - Update notes with a new resource

6. Relationships

40 - What are Eloquent relationships
41 - Define relationships
42 - Query and save relationships
43 - Challenge - Define a new relationship and use it
44 - Solution - Define a new relationship and use it

7. Soft Deleting

45 - Enable soft delete
46 - Query soft deleted models
47 - Show soft deleted model
48 - Restore soft deleted models
49 - Permanently delete models

Conclusion

50 - Optional - Set up a local development environment
51 - Quick summary
52 - Next steps