Discovering Laravel

Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) Concepts

• Classes, objects, constructors
• Properties, methods
• Interfaces
• Namespaces
• Exceptions

Introduction

• What is Laravel
• Composer, the dependency manager for PHP

Installation

• Installing Laravel through Composer
• Directory structure in a Laravel project
• Starting the integrated development server with Artisan

Routes and Controllers

• Routing in Laravel
• Creating and using controllers
• Middlewares in Laravel: understanding their principles and how implementing them

Services and Dependency Injection

• Creating services
• Service container and dependency injection in Laravel

Templating with Blade

• Introduction to Blade: Laravel’s template engine
• Creating views and using layouts
• Blade directives for logic in templates

Eloquent ORM

• Introduction to Eloquent: ORM in Laravel
• Database configuration
• Defining models and performing CRUD operations
• Using migrations to manage database structure

Forms

• Creating forms with Laravel Collective
• Using the built-in validator
• Persisting form data

Security

• Authentication Configuration with Laravel
• ACL (Access Control List) Management

Going further with Laravel

• Testing your app with Laravel Dusk
• Best practices and coding style with Laravel Pint
• Managing your images
• Deploying your app with Laravel Forge