Laravel - Build an Advanced Job Portal Website

Set up your local Laravel development environment using VS Code and Laracon, installing Laravel extensions, PHP IntelliSense, and code formatting tools to boost productivity in building a job portal.

Configure VS Code by enabling auto save after delay, setting font size, and adding custom paths in settings.json for PHP executable, Artisan location, and Git to support a Laravel environment.

Replace the default VS Code terminal with Largen's Cmdr by updating Settings.json and setting the terminal profile; reload, verify versions, then apply One Dark Pro and the Material Icon Theme.

Set up a fresh Laravel project and install Laravel Breeze to enable authentication, configure the database, run migrations, and scaffold blade-based login and registration.

Install the Laravel id helper package to enhance VS Code suggestions, generate helper files, and regenerate docs, while resolving composer errors with carbon and doctrine updates.

Plan and implement a multi authentication system with admin, company, and candidate users in a Laravel Breeze setup, using guards and middleware to route to separate dashboards.

Enable company and candidate authentication with a shared login form by adding image and role columns to the users table, then redirect users to their dashboards with Laravel Breeze.

Add multi-auth in Laravel by updating user table with image and role enum for candidate and company, and redirect login to the proper dashboard.

Implement a custom Laravel middleware to enforce role-based access for company and candidate dashboards, preventing cross-view access and redirecting users to their respective dashboards.

Modify custom middleware to redirect logged-in users to company or candidate dashboards based on role. Group routes with candidate and company prefixes in web.php to centralize authentication and protect dashboards.

Learn to implement Laravel multi-auth with candidate and company dashboards, route prefixes, and role-based redirects, plus navigation tweaks and planning an admin authentication system.

Create an admin model and admins table with a dedicated admin guard and provider in Laravel, then adapt Breeze authentication for admin while separating admin from company and candidate access.

Create a separate admin route file loaded via the Route Service Provider to isolate admin routes, controllers, and views from the web routes.

Refactor admin authentication by integrating Laravel Breeze routes, updating namespaces to admin controllers, and implementing an admin login at admin/login with a dedicated admin guard.

Configure a dedicated admin guard and login flow in Laravel, protect admin routes with middleware, and implement redirects to the admin dashboard.

Demonstrate testing the admin login system by seeding a super admin, logging in, and validating the admin guard across candidate dashboards, and outline a separate admin logout route.

Implement and test admin logout in a multi-auth Laravel setup by using the admin guard, updating logout routes and views, and ensuring redirection to admin login without disrupting candidate sessions.

Implement admin forget password and reset flow in Laravel by configuring admin routes, updating admin views, wiring the password broker, and testing mail via mail trap in the .env.

Override Laravel's admin password reset notification to route through the admin prefix, pass the token, and customize the reset link in the email, ensuring the admin reset password flow works.

Master admin password reset in a multi-auth Laravel app by configuring the admin broker, validating inputs, saving the new password, and redirecting to the admin login after reset.

Begin mastering the admin panel by integrating the downloaded admin template, exploring dashboards, layouts, components, forms, and auth pages (login, reset, forget) for Laravel blade integration.

Master the admin dashboard setup by integrating a custom admin template into a Laravel project, creating a master blade, and wiring assets, views, and dynamic links for the admin panel.

Modularize the admin dashboard with a master blade, extend layouts, and render dynamic sections using yield and section, while including reusable header, footer, and sidebar assets.

Streamline the Laravel admin dashboard by removing excess content, simplifying the sidebar and navbar, and making the footer year dynamic. Load only essential scripts and css.

Prune the master blade by removing unnecessary script and link tags, keeping only essential assets like bootstrap, summernote, and the template css for a cleaner admin panel.

Master the admin login page by implementing a logout flow, creating an auth master layout, and rendering a custom design with blade templates and admin routes.

Master the admin login page by building a dynamic login form in Laravel, integrating CSRF protection, session status, and real-time validation with is-invalid styling and reusable components.

Customize the admin forget password page in a Laravel job portal by replacing the form with a login-style design and an email field, with CSRF protection and session status.

Integrate the reset password section into the admin blade, add token and CSRF handling, and make fields dynamic with error displays to ensure the reset flow works.

Explore the frontend template for the Laravel job portal, featuring a home page hero with job search and filters, featured jobs, categories, recruiters, pricing, and blogs.

Master the front-end home page for a Laravel job portal by integrating a frontend template into views, creating a master blade, and wiring assets with dynamic paths.

Fix the preloader and modularize the home page by extracting header and footer into Laravel blade files, then render sections via master blade with yield and assets.

Master frontend setup by modularizing the home page into separate section files (hero, category, featured jobs, why choose us, and more), using includes to organize sections and speed up loading.

Master the login page in a Laravel frontend by wiring routes, updating the header, and converting the login blade to use CSRF, email, password, and remember me with error handling.

Master the Laravel registration page by implementing the register route, a dynamic form with name, email, password, account type (candidate or company), CSRF, and inline validation in blade templates.

Update the frontend registration flow to include an account type (candidate or company), validate inputs with Laravel Breeze, display errors, and redirect users to the appropriate dashboard based on role.

Fix the register form border issue in the frontend by removing an overriding important border style in style.css, ensuring consistent validation highlights for the Laravel job portal signup.

Add and wire the forget password link on the login page, then render the forgot password page with blade templates, CSRF, and session feedback.

Master the reset password page in Laravel by adapting the forget password blade, adding email, password, and confirm password fields, and handling validation errors and the reset token.

Develop the candidate dashboard by building a reusable sidebar, integrating the dashboard view with a controller, and extending the front end master layout to mirror the candidate profile design.

Improve the company dashboard by implementing a functional logout, refactoring navigation and blade templates, and templating the company view from the candidate dashboard within a Laravel Breeze setup.

This frontend setup walkthrough implements dynamic sign-in text showing company or candidate dashboards by user role, adds layout checks, tweaks styles, and cleans up code ahead of feature planning.

Explore the project road map for building a Laravel job portal, focusing on company and candidate profiles, pricing and payment integration, and dynamic job posting with related attributes.

Design and implement the company profile schema, linking user data to a one-to-one company table, and incorporate industry type, organization type, and team size tables for forms.

Create a Laravel migration for the companies table, adding columns like user_id, industry_type_id, logo, bio, and profile flags, then run migrations and prepare the company form.

learn to implement a company profile update in a Laravel job portal by building a profile page in the company dashboard, with routing and a dedicated controller.

Build a tabbed company profile update page using bootstrap tabs, with form fields for logo, banner, company name, bio, and vision, plus founding info and account settings, and css theming.

Create the company founding information form for the Laravel job portal, adding industry type, organization type, team size, website, establishment date, and contact fields, with select dropdowns.

Replace basic HTML selects for founding information with a jQuery select2 plugin, wired via CDN and initialized on a common class to enhance the company profile update form.

This lecture demonstrates fixing the company profile update dropdown design by inspecting the home template, copying select style and form classes, and adding a bootstrap date picker for establishment date.

Develop the company profile update by building an account settings form to update username, email, and password, refine the layout and button styles, and prepare migration changes for the video.

Add and adjust fields in the company migration, making name, slug, email, phone, and other attributes nullable or defaulted, then rollback and migrate again to update the companies table.

Make the company info form dynamic by naming inputs, wiring a post route, using a dedicated request for validation, and handling image uploads with error feedback.

Learn to handle the company info form in Laravel by uploading images to storage, capturing the image path, and storing it in the database using a reusable file upload trait.

Update or create a company profile in Laravel, handling logo, banner, name, bio, and vision, with first-time creation and subsequent updates on the same row.

Learn how to dynamically validate company logo and banner in Laravel by conditionally adding rules based on the user's profile and existing images, ensuring flexible, update-friendly form validation.

Load dynamic company data into a Laravel form, display the logo and banner with a reusable image preview component, and handle missing data with null safety.

Learn to add dynamic notification alerts in a Laravel job portal using the Laravel Notify package, including installation, asset publishing, configuration, and styling to avoid overlap.

Implement dynamic slugs for company names using the eloquence likable package. The package generates the slug from the name and stores it in the slug column for stable company profiles.

Learn to implement the founding information form in a Laravel job portal, using static dropdowns for industry type, country, state, city, with planned dynamic data and backend modules later.

Validate founding info updates in a Laravel app by creating a front end request with rules for required integers, dates, URLs, emails, and max lengths, and display input errors.

Update founding info validation to require a valid email and active website, make country mandatory, others optional, and align storing logic and date format for MySQL.

Update and persist dynamic founding info fields—establishment date, website, email, phone, country, state, city, and map link—driven by the company variable in the Laravel job portal.

Display current username and email via the auth user helper, then post updates to account info with CSRF, validate name and email, update the user, and show a success notification.

Implement a password update in account settings by wiring a post route, validating with existing rules, updating the user password with bcrypt, and showing error feedback plus a success notification.

Build dynamic company attributes by implementing industry type, organization type, and team size CRUDs in Laravel. Create the controller, model, migration, and resource routes for admin management.

Demonstrates adding a table to the index page with the admin template, including a header for industry type and all industry types, plus a centered search bar and create button.

Learn to implement the create feature for industry types in a Laravel job portal: set up routes and view, build a name form, migrate name and slug, and auto-generate slugs.

Learn to implement a notify package across admin and frontend, creating a backend service class with static create and update notifications, plus front-end integration and basic error handling.

Create a helper file in a Laravel app and register it with composer autoload, making reusable functions available project-wide; add a has_errors helper for validation styling and old() input retention.

Learn to render industry types data on the index page with a dynamic table, using pagination and bootstrap styling for edit and delete actions.

Build the edit view and update flow for industry types using a put route with the id, validate the name with a unique rule that ignores the current id.

Implement a dynamic delete feature using sweet alert confirmation in the Laravel admin template; clicking delete opens a cancel/confirm modal and confirms via AJAX to delete the item.

Learn to implement a delete feature for industry types using ajax in a Laravel app, including dynamic routing, CSRF protection, request handling, and front-end notifications.

Implement robust error handling for the delete feature by surfacing friendly alerts from server responses, logging detailed errors in Laravel logs, and displaying success messages when an item deletes successfully.

Learn to build a reusable Laravel search trait for an industry types table, enabling multi-column search, url-based queries, and pagination with preserved query strings.

Set up an organization type module in the back end, mirroring the industry type, with a route and a table with name and slack plus its controller, model, and migration.

Implement the create feature for organization types by building the create view, validating and storing data, and redirecting to a searchable index with a success alert.

Implement the edit and delete features for organization types in Laravel by updating the type, handling the update route with id, and wiring the destroy route for deletion.

Create a team size feature with a model, migration, and seeder that seeds name and slug for ranges like me, 5-10, 10-20, 20-50, using PHP artisan db:seed.