Laravel 11 - From Basics to Advance

Learn to configure a local Laravel development environment by installing Laragon and VS Code, selecting a local server, and launching the server with built-in terminal and database manager.

Set up vscode for laravel development by installing the laravel extension pack and php intellisense. Customize with a material icon theme and remove unused plugins to optimize performance.

Learn to configure VS Code with Laragon for Laravel development, including setting up a Laragon-based terminal, adding the PHP path, configuring settings.json, and enabling PHP intellisense and artisan workflows.

Install a fresh Laravel project using composer, configure Laragon as the local server, switch from SQLite to MySQL in .env, create a database, and migrate the default tables with Artisan.

Explore Laravel's file and folder structure, including app with controllers, models, and providers. Learn about bootstrap, config, database migrations, factories, seeders, public assets, resources, views (blade), routes, storage, and vendor.

Explore how laravel implements mvc, detailing model, view, and controller, and how a request travels from routing to the controller, then the model to database, and back to the view.

Laravel Artisan is a powerful command line interface that lets you generate boilerplate files—models, controllers, and views—via terminal commands like make controller, make model, and make view.

Open php artisan tinker to interact with your Laravel application from the console. Count users or create dummy data with factories and seeders using the user model in tinker.

Learn how Laravel routes map a URL to a method using get routes and closures, with web.php housing routes that return views or strings.

Master Laravel route parameters by using dynamic URL segments like {id}, capturing them in the closure, and distinguishing required versus optional parameters.

Learn how to name routes in Laravel using the name method, access them with the route helper in blade, and pass dynamic parameters with an associative array.

Explore route groups in Laravel 11, learn to create a group with a closure, apply a prefix and name prefix, and view routes with the route list command.

Discover Laravel route methods, including get, post, put, patch, and delete, and learn how to apply them to create, read, update, and delete data through forms and routes.

Override Laravel's 404 behavior by implementing a Route::fallback closure, returning a custom message or view, and placing the fallback at the bottom of your routes list.

Discover how to create views in Laravel via the CLI using php artisan make view, including nested folders like about/index.php and path-based options.

Discover Blade directives that simplify writing PHP in Laravel views, including if and loops, with clean echoes using curly braces and the Blade engine’s PHP conversion.

Learn to pass dynamic data to Blade views in Laravel 11, using view data arrays (title, description, books) from web.php and render with Blade foreach loops.

Learn how to extend Blade templates in Laravel by creating a master layout with a reusable header and footer, and inject page content via yield, section, and extends.

Master blade's include directive by extracting a section into a separate gallery blade file and including it in pages like home or about, enabling reusable content without semicolons.

Learn how to use conditional rendering in Laravel Blade with if directives to show or hide elements in the DOM based on conditions.

Use blade stacks to push page-specific scripts from a child blade into a parent layout, enabling page-specific assets and reusable code across pages such as home and about.

Explore more Blade directives in Laravel 11, including set, empty, env, section, switch, and loop constructs, with guidance to consult the official documentation and practical usage for beginners.

Explore how Laravel controllers, the brain of the MVC framework, direct request flow, handle logic, and return views, while extending the base controller in app/http/controllers.

Explore single action (invocable) controllers in Laravel, featuring only the invoke method to handle one route, and contrast them with normal controllers.

Explore resourceful controllers in Laravel, learn how a resource controller handles create, read, update, and delete operations, and see how Route::resource automatically generates CRUD routes for a blog.

Set up the Laravel database connection by creating a MySQL database in Laragon and configuring the .env for MySQL access. Run PHP artisan migrate to create tables and verify connection.

Learn how Laravel migrations act as version control for database schemas by creating migrations with PHP artisan, defining blogs table with id, title, description, and timestamps.

Master defining column data types in Laravel migrations for MySQL, covering bigint, varchar, text, boolean, json, and specialized aliases like IP and MAC.

Explore essential Laravel migration commands, including migrate, migrate fresh, reset, rollback, and status, and understand how the up and down methods control table creation and deletion in local development.

Create a model to represent a database table and interact with it through Eloquent ORM, serving as the MVC middle layer between the controller and the database.

Learn how to map a Laravel model to a custom table name by defining protected $table in the model, bypassing the conventional singular model and plural migration naming.

Seed a Laravel database with default content using seeders, including a default admin user. Create and register a seeder in database/seeders, then run it with artisan to seed user table.

Compare factories and seed data creation in Laravel, create a new factory for a model, and generate dummy content with faker to insert into the database.

Add a new nullable author column to an existing blog table in Laravel by creating a migration with the --table option and running migrate, preserving data without deletion.

Learn how Laravel's query builder and Eloquent ORM interact with databases like MySQL and Postgres, avoiding raw SQL for cross-database compatibility.

Insert new data into a database table using Laravel 11 query builder with the DB facade, demonstrating insert and CRUD operations on the users table.

Master retrieving data with Laravel's query builder by using get for all records and first for a single row, applying where conditions and returning JSON data from the users table.

Update data by selecting the users table, applying a where condition to target a row, and using the update method with a key-value array to set name and email.

Learn how to delete a row in a Laravel 11 database using the query builder by selecting the users table with a where condition and id, then calling delete.

Retrieve a single column using Laravel's query builder and bulk method, converting collections to arrays to extract titles from the blocks table.

Learn to use Laravel's aggregate methods—count, max, min, sum, and avg—to compute statistics on a products table and its price column.