Laravel Tutorial: The Ultimate Guide (2021)

Posted by sanjeev rai on October 20th, 2021

This tutorial will explain to you Laravel from beginning to end, including how to install Laravel, configure database connectivity, construct a full-fledged application, and deploy it to HEROKU.

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Laravel Framework is a PHP MVC framework that is open source and can be used to create simple to sophisticated web applications. Laravel adheres slavishly to the MVC (Model-View-Controller) architecture paradigm. As a web framework, it is well-known for its attractive and elegant syntax.

Laravel Framework vs. Other Framework 

When comparing Laravel to other PHP frameworks, it is clear that Laravel is one of the top PHP frameworks, with a total priority of 52.8 percent, followed by Phalcon (16.7%), Symfony (10.6%), and so on. More information may be found here.

What makes Laravel have such high priorities is that it supports the following features out of the box:

• Techniques for Advanced Authentication and Authorization

• Laravel\'s Artisan CLI is a powerful and versatile framework tool.

• MVC architecture pattern is advanced and rigorously supported.

• Eloquent ORM simplifies the complexity of database migration and administration.

• Out of the box, the OWASP security paradigm is followed.

• Now that you have a thorough understanding of the Laravel Framework, let\'s get straight into it.

Laravel: The Framework

The lesson will delve a little deeper into the Laravel framework in this chapter.

In this lesson, we will go through the framework\'s structure and how the MVC pattern is utilized to create the Laravel framework.

This Laravel tutorial will go through the three most significant elements/components of MVC and how Laravel uses them.

Finally, we\'ll go through 

• Models, 
• Views
• Controllers.

Let\'s get started if you\'re as enthusiastic as I am.

As you may have guessed, Laravel adheres strictly to the MVC architectural pattern.

What actually is MVC?

MVC (Model-View-Controller) is a software development architectural pattern that separates the program\'s logic into three interrelated parts.

These 3 elements are called,  Model, Views, Controllers

• Models: The model class, or the primary component of the pattern in Laravel, contains all of the methods and properties required to interact with the database schema defined for it.

• Views: Views represent how information is shown and are utilized for all of the software\'s UI logic. You are correct in stating that the View represents the Frontend of your web page.

• Controllers: Controllers function as a go-between for Models and Views, processing all user input from the View.

It handles all business logic and incoming requests, manipulates data with the Model component, and interacts with the Views to provide the final result.