Laravel Introduction

What is Laravel?

1. Notable Features
2. Documentation

Downloading and Installing

1. Pre-requisites
2. Windows Development Environment
3. Code Editor
4. Composer
   1. Running Composer
5. Installing Laravel Globally
6. Creating a new Laravel Project
7. Running your project
8. Viewing your project files

Using Composer

1. Getting a list of Composer commands
2. Viewing Installed Packages
3. Getting help in Composer
4. Searching for packages
5. Installing packages
6. Removing packages
7. Updating packages
8. Installing packages from composer.json

Artisan

1. Listing commands
2. Show a list of routes
3. Tinker
4. Creating Controllers
   1. Empty Controller
   2. Resource Controller
5. Creating Models
   1. Empty Model
   2. Empty Model and Migration
6. Creating Migrations
7. Migration to create a table
8. Migration to update a table
9. Executing Migrations
   1. Run all
   2. Rollback last
   3. Reset all

Routing

1. Defining a route
2. Route with a closure
3. Route using a controller method
4. Route Parameters
5. Optional Route Parameters
6. Regular Expression Constraints

REST

1. REST example

Views

1. Loading a View
2. Example
3. Passing variables to a view
4. Passing variables using the with method
5. Passing variables using compact

Blade Templates

1. Template Inheritance
2. Example master layout
3. Example child layout
4. Including other views
5. Displaying Data
6. Displaying unescaped data
7. Displaying a variable if it exists
8. If Statements
9. Foreach Loops
10. $loop variable
11. Comments
12. Embedding PHP

Controllers

1. Creating a Controller
2. Dependency Injection

Migrations

1. Default Migrations
2. Migration Structure
3. create_users_table migration
4. Creating a Table
5. Common Column Types
6. Column Modifiers
7. Creating Indexes
8. Foreign Keys
9. Creating a Database
10. Configuring the Database
11. Running the Migrations
12. Result of the Migration
13. Creating a Migration
14. Edit the Migration File
15. Run the migration
16. Create an update migration
17. Edit the Migration File
18. Run the migration
19. Rolling back a migration
20. Resetting all migrations

Eloquent

1. Creating a model
2. Model structure
3. Setting the table name
4. Setting the primary key
5. Timestamps
6. Mass Assignment
   1. Black listing fields
7. Inserting a new record
8. Inserting using mass-assignment
9. Retrieving All Records
10. Retrieve a record by id
11. Add a where clause
12. Alternative comparison operators
13. A where with an and
14. A where with an or
15. Where between
16. Where in
17. Where is null
18. Sorting results
19. Updating an existing Record
20. Updating using mass-assignment
21. Deleting a record

Practical Exercise

1. Creating the Controller
2. Setting up the routes
3. Create a contacts table
4. Create a Contact model
5. Setup a master template
6. Edit the Contact Controller
7. Run your code
8. Edit the index view
9. Edit the Contact Controller
10. Editing a Contact
11. Create the Edit Form
12. Edit the Contact Controller
13. Deleting a Contact
14. Edit the Contact Controller

Conclusion