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Laravel 4 From Scratch

Each year, the Laracasts "Laravel From Scratch" series is refreshed to reflect the latest iteration of the framework. This is the 2014 edition, which uses version 4.0 of the framework.

So you're brand new to this whole MVC framework thing. That's okay; we've all been there! This series was tailor-made for you, and will get you up to speed in no time. Follow along, step by step!

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16
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1h 35m
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Beginner
Last Updated
Nov 11, 2015
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    1. Installation

      Naturally, before we can begin learning about Laravel and the MVC pattern, we first need to install the framework. We'll tackle that in this lesson.

    2. M-V-Huh?

      Now that we have a fresh installation of Laravel, let's have a look around our new project, and discuss the benefits of the MVC architecture.

    3. Models

      We've already discussed the basics of views and controllers, but how do models fit into this whole thing?

    4. Database Access

      Now that we have a modest understanding of the MVC pattern, let's next learn how to connect our Laravel app to a MySQL database.

    5. Eloquent Basics

      Now that we've reviewed the DB class, let's next move on to Laravel's ORM, called Eloquent. I think you'll love it!

    6. Blade Basics

      You'll love Laravel's templating engine, called Blade. In this lesson, we'll review the basics of Blade, while we build a simple layout for displaying users.

    7. Master Pages

      Master pages offer an elegant way to DRY up our views, so to speak. Clearly, copying and pasting HTML from view to view is a bad idea! Let's fix that in this lesson.

    8. From Closures to Controllers

      Routing to closures is helpful for quick projects, however, as soon as you build an app of any size or substance, you'll likely want to switch to controllers. Let's do that in this lesson.

    9. Resourceful Routing

      Now that we've reviewed explicit routing, let's learn a bit more about the RESTful style of development, and how Laravel fits in.

    10. Forms

      Let's move on to Laravel's form handling capabilities.

    11. Record Creation

      It's now time to accept the form's POST data, and translate that into a new record in our database. Luckily Eloquent makes this a cinch!

    12. Validation

      Clearly, we must implement some form of validation for protection. Let's tackle that in this episode.

    13. Refactoring

      It's better if we instead inject our User object through the controller's constructor. Let's tackle that in this lesson, and learn about some alternative ways of validating a user.

    14. Preparing Your Database

      Laravel makes use of what we call migrations to handle table creation and manipulation. You're going to love it! Think of it as version control for your database.

    15. Authentication

      Now that we have users table, how might we go about adding an authentication layer to our application?

    16. Goodbye

      Well that does it for this introduction to Laravel. But, as you can imagine, there is so, so much more to learn. Luckily, you'll find page after page of education on this very site. See you around!

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