- Installation and Configuration
- Routing
- Requests & Input
- Views & Responses
- Controllers
After reading through these documents, you should have a good grasp on basic request / response handling in Laravel. Next, you may wish to read about configuring your database, the fluent query builder, and the Eloquent ORM. Or, you may wish to read about authentication and security so you can start signing people into your application.Laravel is a web application framework with expressive, elegant syntax. We believe development must be an enjoyable, creative experience to be truly fulfilling. Laravel attempts to take the pain out of development by easing common tasks used in the majority of web projects, such as authentication, routing, sessions, and caching.
Laravel aims to make the development process a pleasing one for the developer without sacrificing application functionality. Happy developers make the best code. To this end, we've attempted to combine the very best of what we have seen in other web frameworks, including frameworks implemented in other languages, such as Ruby on Rails, ASP.NET MVC, and Sinatra.Laravel is accessible, yet powerful, providing powerful tools needed for large, robust applications. A superb inversion of control container, expressive migration system, and tightly integrated unit testing support give you the tools you need to build any application with which you are tasked.
One of the best ways to learn Laravel is to read through the entirety of its documentation. This guide details all aspects of the framework and how to apply them to your application.In addition to this guide, you may wish to check out some Laravel books. These community written books serve as a good supplemental resource for learning about the framework:The Laravel framework utilizes Composer for installation and dependency management. If you haven't already, start by installing Composer. Now you can install Laravel by issuing the following command from your terminal: This command will download and install a fresh copy of Laravel in a new your-project-name folder within your current directory.
If you prefer, you can alternatively download a copy of the Laravel repository from Github manually. Next run the composer install command in the root of your manually created project directory. This command will download and install the framework's dependencies.After installing the framework, take a glance around the project to familiarize yourself with the directory structure. The app directory contains folders such as views, controllers, and models. Most of your application's code will reside somewhere in this directory. You may also wish to explore the app/config directory and the configuration options that are available to you. First, download the Laravel installer PHAR archive. For convenience, rename the file to laravel and move it to /usr/local/bin. Once installed, the simple laravel new command will create a fresh Laravel installation in the directory you specify. For instance, laravel new blog would create a directory named blog containing a fresh Laravel installation with all dependencies installed. This method of installation is much faster than installing via Composer.