Laravel 11 - Build a Complete Learning Management System LMS

Set up a local Laravel development environment using Laragon as the server and VS Code as the editor, covering downloading, installation, and starting the server.

Configure VS Code for Laravel development by installing the Laravel extension pack, Laravel Blade spacer, and PHP IntelliSense, then customize with Material Icon Theme and On Dark Pro theme.

Configure VS Code to work with Laragon by setting the terminal to the Laragon CMD, and specify the PHP path so Laravel plugins access PHP and related tooling.

Install a fresh Laravel project using composer, explore Laragon as the server, and configure MySQL in .env, then run migrations to set up the database and run the app.

Explore the Laravel 11 folder structure, from app, config, and database to public and resources, and see how controllers, models, migrations, and blade views organize your LMS project.

Explore the mvc architecture in Laravel, where the view uses blade to present pages, the controller handles requests, and the model interacts with the database.

Explore how Laravel Artisan provides a command line interface to automate boilerplate tasks, generate models, views, controllers, and other files via PHP Artisan make commands.

Master the Laravel artisan tinker by using the tinker shell to debug, access the user model, and seed data with factories from the console.

Learn how Laravel routes map a URL to a method, using get routes and closures, and place web routes in web.php to enable clean, maintainable navigation.

Explore how Laravel route parameters create dynamic url segments, pass and access values like id or slug in closures, and handle required versus optional parameters for dynamic routing.

Master route naming in Laravel 11 by creating human readable route names, using the route helper to generate links, and passing parameter arrays for dynamic URLs.

Demonstrates how to group routes in Laravel using the route group method, a closure, and an optional array, adding a url and name prefix to all subroutes, and examines route:list.

Explore Laravel route methods such as get, post, put, patch, and delete, and learn when to use each for crud operations in routes and forms.

Learn how to override Laravel's default 404 with a fallback route using Route::fallback and a closure, returning custom content placed at the bottom of your routes.

Explore Laravel Blade, the powerful templating engine for the MVC presentation layer, learn to create blade files in resource/views, return views via routes, and organize nested views using dot notation.

Create blade views efficiently with the Laravel artisan CLI by running php artisan make view, including nested paths like about/index, to generate files in the views directory.

Explore Blade directives in Laravel Blade templating, including if, elsif, for each, and echoing with at-sign syntax. Learn how directives convert to php and how to comment.

Learn to pass data from routes to blade views in Laravel 11, using view data arrays and keys, then display dynamic titles, descriptions, and books with foreach.

Extend blade templates to create a reusable header and footer in a master layout. Inject page content with yield and section to keep pages consistent while changing only the content.

Explore the blade include directive to reuse small blocks of html by placing content in a separate gallery blade and including it in home and about pages.

Learn how to use conditional rendering in Blade with if directives to show or hide elements based on a condition, affecting what appears in the DOM.

Learn how to use blade stacks to push page-specific scripts from child blades to a parent layout. Push page-specific css and javascript with stack and endpush.

Explore Laravel blade directives, including if, unless, set, empty, environment directives, loop constructs like for and foreach, and the loop variable and section directives.

Learn how Laravel controllers act as the brain of your application, handling requests, deciding data fetching or view rendering, and extending the base controller in the app's http folder.

Create your first basic Laravel controller with artisan make:controller, map routes in web.php to controller methods like index and about, and return views for a cleaner, maintainable MVC structure.

Discover how to create and use a single action controller in Laravel, an invocable controller with only one invoke method to handle a single route.

Discover how to use a resourceful controller in Laravel to auto generate routes for create, read, update, and delete operations, with methods like index, store, show, edit, update, and delete.

Set up the Laravel database connection by creating a new MySQL database, configuring the .env file, and running php artisan migrate to create default tables.

Learn how to use Laravel migrations as version control for database schema, create tables with columns and primary keys, and run migrations with PHP artisan migrate.

Learn how to define column data types in Laravel migrations for a MySQL-backed table, including common types like varchar (string), text, integer, boolean, and json.

Acquire practical mastery of Laravel migration commands, including migrate, migrate fresh, reset, rollback, status, and install, with safe local development practices and understanding of up and down methods.

Create a Laravel model to represent a database table, acting as the data access layer via Eloquent ORM, following singular model naming with plural table conventions.

Learn how to create a Laravel model with a custom table name, define the table property, and resolve base table not found errors when not following the naming conventions.

Learn to create and run a seeder to seed default data, such as a default admin user, into the Laravel app's database using artisan commands.

Explore how Laravel factories generate dummy data for testing and differ from seeders for default content, and see how to create a my blog factory with faker.

Add a new column to an existing table with a fresh Laravel migration, preserving data and adding a nullable author field. Learn to position the column and run migrations safely.