Laravel 5 Essential Training: 1 The Basics

Learn how to build elegant applications of any scale with Laravel, the popular and flexible PHP framework.

Introduction

• Welcome
• Project: The Landon Hotel app
• What you should know
• Using the exercise files
• Set up your local environment (Mac)
• Set up your local environment (Windows)

1. Getting Started with Laravel

• What is Laravel?
• Get a copy of Laravel
• Laravel file and folder structure
• Artisan for developers
• Simple web responses with Laravel
• Dependency injection
• Service providers
• Facades and their utility

2. Controlling an Application

• Controller implementation in Laravel
• Routing to controllers
• Sending parameters to a controller
• Loading a view

3. Views and Blade

• Create a template and extended views
• Send data to a view
• Views and additional Blade functionality
• Challenge: Titles from the model
• Solution: Titles from the model
• Create forms
• Process form data
• Form validation: Back end
• Form validation: Front end

4. Introducing Eloquent

• Introduction to Eloquent
• Set up a database
• Database migrations
• Models in Laravel
• Add data with Eloquent
• Select data with Eloquent
• Modify data with Eloquent
• Relations in Eloquent
• Select data with raw queries
• Return data to the view
• Add relational data
• Concurrent connections

Conclusion

• Next steps