Getting Started with Laravel (PHP Framework) - The Basics

By Max Schwarzmueller
Frameworks like Laravel support you when building web applications that scale. This course teaches the basics about Laravel, how it works, how to use views, controllers and models, and how to connect it all.
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(140)
Level
Beginner
Updated
Dec 20, 2016
Duration
2h 39m
Table of contents
Course Overview
Course Overview 2m
Getting Started
Introduction 1m What is Laravel? 2m MVC vs Non-MVC 2m MVC and the Structure of This Course 4m Additional Courses 2m Course Prerequisites 1m Setting up a Laravel Project 7m Understanding the Folder Structure 5m A Quick Intro to the Artisan Command Line Interface 1m Using This Course with Other Laravel Versions 1m
Views & Blade Templating Engine
Introduction 2m Views and Templating Engines 2m Why Use Templating Engines? 2m Blade - Displaying Data and Using Layouts 3m Demo: Using Layouts 5m Demo: Displaying Data 2m Blade - Partials 1m Demo: Partials 3m Blade - Control Structures 1m Demo: Control Structures 3m Blade - XSS Protection 1m Demo: XSS Protection 1m Adjusting the Course Project 4m Facades and Finishing Touches 3m
Working with Routes
Introduction 1m The Laravel Request Flow 5m What's the Job of a Router? 2m Creating Routes 4m Demo: Project Routes and Views 3m Navigation and Route Names 3m Demo: Adding Navigation to the Project 1m Passing Route Parameters 2m Creating and Using POST Routes 4m Structuring Routes with Route Groups 2m Wrap Up 1m
Handling Requests & Responses
Introduction 1m Handling Requests and Sending Responses 3m Demo: Extracting Data from a GET Request 2m Demo: Sending Data to a View 6m Handling POST Requests with Dependency Injection 4m Dependency Injection vs Facades 1m Demo: Using Dependency Injection 2m Protecting Against CSRF Attacks 3m Demo: CSRF Protection 1m Using Sessions to Show Temporary Data 5m A Case for User Input Validation 1m Demo: Implementing Input Validation 5m Demo: Showing Validation Errors 3m Demo: Outsourcing Error Messages into Partials 1m Wrap Up 1m
Using Controllers and Models
Introduction 2m Controllers and Models - Overview 2m Demo: Creating the Post Model 3m Demo: Adding Methods to the Model 3m Demo: Creating the Post Controller 4m Connecting Controller Actions and Routes 3m How Laravel Finds the Controller 1m Alternative Route Syntax 1m Demo: Finishing the Post Model 1m Demo: Finishing the Controller 2m Using Validation in Controllers 2m Finishing the Course Project & Wrap Up 6m
Description
Course info
Rating
(140)
Level
Beginner
Updated
Dec 20, 2016
Duration
2h 39m
Description

When building anything but very simple web applications, vanilla PHP will quickly be the limiting factor. Instead of re-inventing the wheel over and over again, frameworks like Laravel help you with handling basic yet important tasks like sessions, authentication, or input validation. This course, Getting Started with Laravel (PHP Framework) - The Basics, teaches you how Laravel works and how to use it. You will start with understanding the theory behind Laravel. Then, you'll learn how to create and render views, as well as handling requests and inputs. Finally, you will connect your business logic to the page showing up in the browser using a Model-View-Controller (MVC) approach. After finishing this course, you'll be able to go back to the application you were stuck on and rebuild it in less time whilst only focusing on your core business logic.

About the author
Max Schwarzmueller
About the author

Max is a freelance web developer and professional online instructor. Whilst being into development since 15 years of age, he studied Business Administration and worked in major consultancies as well as a bank before making his passion his main job. If not coding, Max enjoys sports, cooking, and meeting people.

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Section Introduction Transcripts

Course Overview
Hi everyone. My name is Maximilian Schwarzmuller, and welcome to my course, Getting Started with Laravel -The Basics. I'm a freelance web developer, working with PHP Laravel since many years, and a professional online instructor already hosting an advanced Laravel course here on Pluralsight. PHP powers more than 80% of all web pages, but probably has the most patchy syntax of all available web development languages. In this course, we're going to have a detailed look at how to write better code with one of the most popular and powerful PHP frameworks you can find - Laravel. Some of the major topics that we will cover include what Laravel is and why we might want to use it, how a Laravel application is set up and works, how to render views and work with requests and responses in our application, and how to provide a great user experience with a little effort. By the end of this course, you'll know how to use your PHP knowledge to create in bulk Laravel applications that scale well. Before beginning the course, you should be familiar with PHP and object-orientated programming with PHP, as well as the basics about HTML and CSS. From here, you should feel comfortable diving into even more Laravel with courses on working with data and models in Laravel, authentication in Laravel applications, or advanced topics like creating an API with Laravel. I hope you'll join me on this journey to learn the basics of Laravel with the Getting Started with Laravel - The Basics course, at Pluralsight.

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