Laravel - Build Multi Vendor Ecommerce Web Application

Upgrade your Laravel 9 project to Laravel 10 by updating PHP to 8.1, upgrading Composer, and adjusting composer.json to Laravel 10 and Ignition 2.0, then run composer update.

Upgrade a Laravel 10 project to Laravel 11 by following the official upgrade guide, updating PHP to 8.2, and adjusting composer dependencies including Breeze 2.0.

Set up a Laravel local development environment using Laravel, VS Code, Lorawan as the localhost server, and Firefox, featuring an inbuilt terminal, composer access, and a built-in db manager.

Learn how to downgrade or upgrade the PHP version in Laragon by downloading from Windows php.net, replacing the PHP folder, and restarting the server to apply changes.

Explore essential VS Code extensions for Laravel development, install the Laravel Extension Pack, customize themes and fonts, and enable auto save, artisan commands, and blade formatting for a faster workflow.

Learn to install your first laravel project using either composer or the laravel installer, follow official docs, and verify a running laravel app.

Explore the Laravel folder structure and learn where to place html, models, controllers, routes, and config, database (migrations, seeders, factories), bootstrap, public, and env.

Explore Laravel Artisan and Tinker, using PHP Artisan commands to create migrations, models, and routes, run the local server, view routes, and interact with your app in the Tinker shell.

Fix the PHP path error in VS Code by adding the PHP path to the settings JSON, using the PHP 8.1 bin path, and escaping backslashes.

Learn how Laravel routes requests using the route facade and get method, placed in routes/web.php, define about and contact routes with closures returning strings, and preview mapping to views.

Learn how to pass parameters in a Laravel route by using dynamic segments with curly braces and placeholders, then access the id in a closure.

Learn how to name routes in Laravel, create named routes like about and edit contact, and generate URLs with the route helper using parameters and dynamic segments.

Learn how to group routes in Laravel using a route group with a prefix to improve readability and maintainability, as shown with customer list, create, and show routes.

Discover the five main Laravel route methods—get, post, put, patch, and delete—how they modify resources, and how to define a post or put route with Route.

Learn how to use Laravel's fallback route to replace the default 404 page by handling missing routes with a custom message at the bottom of web.php.

Explore how Laravel renders views using the Blade templating engine, store files in the views folder, and return them with the view() function, including nested folders like about.index.

Pass dynamic data to Blade templates by sending variables from routes, render them with Blade syntax, and explore compact versus array approaches.

Create a master blade layout with header and footer for reuse. Use yield and section to insert dynamic content on pages like home and about by extending the master layout.

Explore loops in blade templates by rendering multiple bootstrap cards from a multi-dimensional array using foreach and for directives, passing data with compact and accessing title and body.

Learn to implement conditional rendering in Laravel Blade templates by using if/else with a status flag to control which posts render, enhancing front-end dynamics with Blade directives.

Learn how to refactor a Blade layout by extracting header and footer into separate subviews and including them in the master Blade using Blade's include directive.

Explore practical Blade directives in Laravel to handle PHP within templates, including set, if, switch, and empty, with real-world examples of alerts and conditional rendering.

Explore how Laravel controllers organize request handling within a single class and why routes should be kept lean. Learn where to place controllers and how to return views.

Create and use Laravel controllers by moving route logic from closures to dedicated controllers, using artisan make:controller to create home, about, and contact controllers, and routes to controller methods.

Learn how resource controllers streamline CRUD operations in Laravel and how to generate and register a resource controller with PHP artisan and Route::resource.

Learn how to use single action controllers in Laravel to handle a single action with an invokable controller, automatically invoking the invoke method when a route hits the class.

Create a Laravel login form by setting up a get route, login controller, and blade view with bootstrap-styled inputs for username, email, and password, preparing for validations and error handling.

learn how csrf tokens prevent cross-site request forgery in Laravel; use @csrf in forms, understand how Laravel generates token per session, and why disabling csrf protection exposes security risks.

Validate form inputs in Laravel with the object-oriented request class and the validate method, and display validation errors in the login blade using the errors variable.

Learn to apply multiple Laravel validation rules using pipe or array syntax, including alpha, min, max, and email, with automatic redirects on errors.

Learn to override Laravel's default validation texts by supplying a custom messages array to the validate method, targeting rules like required, alpha, and email for fields such as name.

Learn how to implement form validation in Laravel using request classes to keep controllers clean, by generating a login request with Artisan, defining rules and messages, and enabling authorization.

Configure the laravel db connection by editing the .env file with host, port, database, username, and password for mysql, then verify with tinker using DB::connection to get PDO.

Learn to create Laravel migrations with artisan, name migration for plural tables, define up and down methods, add fields like title and description, and run migrations to build database table.

Explore common MySQL data types and how to specify them in Laravel migrations, including string, text, boolean, date, datetime, decimal, float, integer, and timestamp, with nullable and default options.

Master Laravel migrations with artisan commands, including migrate, migrate:reset, migrate:rollback, migrate --path for single files, and migrate:refresh for resetting and re-migrating tables.

Add new columns to the posts table with a new migration, avoiding migrate fresh and data loss. Run php artisan migrate to apply publish date and user id.

Seed your Laravel database with fake data for the post table using seeders and artisan commands, then run db:seed to populate records.