PHP Laravel: Build Hotel Booking Management System

Begin by setting up your Laravel project and jump into the authentication system, with tips for beginners and guidance for experienced developers, including using playback speed to learn faster.

Install and configure XAMPP to run a local development server, including Apache, MySQL, PHP, and phpMyAdmin; start services and access localhost/phpmyadmin to manage databases.

Install Visual Studio Code, the text editor for this course, by downloading for Windows and running the installer. You can also use other editors like PhpStorm, Sublime Text, or Notepad++.

Design and code a hotel booking web app featuring a landing page, login and register, hotel listings with room details, and a PayPal checkout, with Laravel project setup.

learn to create a new Laravel project with composer, name it vacation rental, configure the dot env for mysql, create the database, and run the server with php artisan serve.

Learn to set up a Laravel authentication system using the Laravel UI package, Bootstrap scaffolding, and migrations to create a users table and enable login and registration.

Integrate the theme into a Laravel project by importing CSS and JS assets with the asset helper and updating the master blade template for dynamic header, footer, and content.

Integrate login and register flows into a Laravel hotel booking app, update the navigation with guest guards, and apply style adjustments to ensure dynamic user menus.

Create a hotel model and hotels table with name, image, description, and location, then fetch and display hotels on the home page using a foreach loop in Laravel.

Create an apartment model with PHP artisan, link apartments to hotels via hotel_id, define fillable fields: name, image, size, view, beds, price, and display rooms on the home page.

Create a dynamic hotel room listing by adding a hotels controller with a rooms function, route by hotel id, and display rooms in a Blade view.

Link the room listings to a dynamic room details page, fetch room data by ID in the controller, and render a Blade view to support immediate room booking.

Learn to implement room booking in a Laravel PHP app by validating future checkin and checkout dates, calculating stay days and price, and storing bookings with room and hotel details.

Learn to implement PayPal payments in a Laravel hotel booking app by using session for price, configuring sandbox accounts, and routing to a PayPal checkout and a success page.

learn to process hotel bookings in Laravel by using PayPal, dynamically passing price via session, validating check-in/out dates, handling errors, and finalizing payments with proper routing and session management.

Learn to block direct access to pay and success pages with a Laravel middleware that checks the session price and aborts when zero, applying the check to routes.

Create a Laravel bookings page that shows each user's bookings by building a users bookings controller, querying bookings by user_id, and rendering a Bootstrap table in a Blade view.

Learn to enforce authentication with middleware for the hotel booking system, validate access to the my bookings and home pages, and implement front-end checks to require login before booking.

Create and link static pages for about, services, and contact using Laravel routes and a home controller, build blade templates under pages, and display assets and images with margin tweaks.

Design and implement an admin panel with login, admin management, hotel and room records, and booking handling, including create, view, delete, and status updates.

Create a Laravel admin guard and provider by copying the web guard, and build a dedicated admin model and admins table to enable admin authentication alongside the user system.

Build a Laravel admin authentication system by creating an admin login form and controller, using a master Blade template with csrf, routing to the index dashboard after credential validation.

Implement authentication validation by displaying the admin name, hiding login links when logged in, and toggling the admin navigation using the admin guard, with a logout form and template integration.

Protect admin routes with a custom middleware and admin guard to ensure only authenticated admins access the dashboard and logged-in users cannot reach the login page.

Create the index statistics page for the hotel booking system by counting admins, hotels, and rooms, passing counts to the view with compact, and rendering them on the admin dashboard.

Show how to display admin data in Laravel by wiring routes and a controller, looping through admins in a blade view, and presenting id, name, and email.

Learn to create new admins in a Laravel hotel booking system by building the create form, storing admins, hashing passwords, and showing the admin created successfully message.

Display all hotels in the admin panel by updating the controller and view to fetch hotels ordered by id descending, showing name, location, and description with update and delete actions.

Create new hotels in a Laravel app by building a hotels create form, uploading images, and storing data via the hotels.store route to the hotel model, with validation.

Learn how to update hotels by editing a hotel via an id-based form, load data into a blade form, validate input, handle csrf, and show a success message.

delete hotels with images in a Laravel app by using a delete link, removing the associated image file from assets/images, and redirecting to the hotels list with a success message.

Display all hotel rooms in the admin panel by loading room data into the blade view and looping to show id, name, image, price, capacity, size, beds, and hotel id.

Create rooms in a Laravel hotel booking system with a create room form. Wire routes, handle multipart form data, and store price, max persons, beds, and image.

Learn to delete rooms by using a delete rooms function that removes the room record and its image from the assets folder, then redirects with a delete success message.