Laravel Complete Course

Master Laravel from basics to real apps. This guide is the path I wish I had: enough PHP to be dangerous, then routing, Blade, Eloquent, validation, and one small project you can actually ship.

What you need first

Install PHP 8.2+, Composer, and a database. Laravel Sail or XAMPP is fine. You do not need to memorize the whole PHP manual — classes, arrays, and request/response are enough to start.

The core loop

A Laravel request hits a route, a controller (or closure) runs, and a Blade view or JSON response comes back. Models talk to the database through Eloquent. Keep that loop in your head and the rest of the framework is extra tools around it.

php artisan serve
php artisan make:model Post -mf
php artisan migrate

Build a posts list, a detail page, and a form. Once that works, you understand 80% of typical Laravel work.