Let'S Learn Laravel: A Guided Path For Beginners

Learn The Essential Concepts of PHP, Laravel & Linux To Launch A New Career!

What you'll learn

The PHP language itself

How to setup your personal computer for Laravel practice

How to keep your code organized (we actually take the time to understand the MVC pattern)

How to deploy your app up to the web (both local Docker practice, and a real public Linux VPS)

Requirements

No programming experience is required, but a basic understanding of HTML will be helpful.

A computer that you are allowed to install software on, and an internet connection.

Description

Learn the incredibly popular and in demand Laravel framework. There are countless Laravel courses in the world; here's what makes this one unique:No assumptions that you already understand the PHP language.No assumptions that you already understand the "Model View Controller" pattern.No assumptions that you already understand how to setup a dev environment on your computer.No assumptions that you already understand how to deploy a website.No assumptions that you already understand the Linux command-line.Laravel is an amazing framework, but because it is so feature-complete I've noticed that a lot of guides and tutorials get overly ambitious and introduce 10 or 20 new concepts in a single lesson which is frustrating when you're a beginner and you're trying to actually understand why you're doing what you're doing. I've also noticed a lot of tutorials assume you've already used lots of other web application frameworks before Laravel, and so they don't actually explain any of the organizational or conceptual pieces of the puzzle.This course is different because I assume that Laravel is the first web application framework you've ever attempted to learn, and so we move at a pace where you can actually absorb the big-picture concepts that exist in all frameworks; not just Laravel.Here's what we'll learn in the course:The PHP language itselfGetting our computer ready for LaravelUser registration, log in, log outProfile Photo Upload (server-side resize & storage)The Blade Template EngineComposer the PHP Dependency ManagerForm ValidationGates, Policies, Permissions (e.g. You can only edit your own posts and not other people's posts)Relationships; letting one user follow another userHow to use Models to query for the exact data you want (e.g. homepage feed of posts from the users you follow)How to send automated emails from your appAdd API URLS that allow users to login and create & delete posts from outside the context of a web browserUse Docker to practice deploying to a Linux serverConfigure a real public Ubuntu VPS to host our Laravel app with a real domainSetup our VPS as a Git server that you can push to for effortless future updates to your live siteI encourage you to watch the freely available first lesson titled "Welcome To The Course" to get a better feel for the course.This course may be brand new, but this isn’t my first time teaching. I’ve led training sessions for Fortune 500 companies and I’ve already helped over 200,000 people on Udemy and received the following feedback:"Brad definitely has some of the best techniques to embed the lesson into your mind… hands down these are the best tutorials I have had the opportunity to view.""Presentation is concise without being tedious… you honestly feel that you have a thorough understanding of the subject.""…[Brad] explained the process. Not memorize this or that, he explained the process. If you're looking to take a course to understand the foundations of creating websites, look no further."Become highly valuable and relevant to the companies that are hiring Laravel developers; in one convenient place alongside one instructor. If you're ready to begin coding your own applications from the ground up - I'll see you on the inside!

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Welcome To The Course!

Lecture 2 Text Editor

Lecture 3 Windows: Installing PHP

Lecture 4 Mac: Installing PHP

Lecture 5 PHP The Language Itself

Lecture 6 Windows: Composer

Lecture 7 Mac: Composer

Lecture 8 Actually Using Composer

Section 2: Laravel Introduction

Lecture 9 Using Composer To Create a Laravel Project

Lecture 10 Routes and URLs

Lecture 11 How To Use The Reference Zip Files In This Course

Lecture 12 What Is A Controller?

Lecture 13 What Is A View? What Is Blade?

Lecture 14 Reducing Duplication in Blade

Section 3: Database Basics

Lecture 15 Install MySQL (Windows)

Lecture 16 Install MySQL (Mac)

Lecture 17 Connecting Laravel To Our Database

Lecture 18 Submit HTML Form Into Database

Lecture 19 Validation & Details

Section 4: Authentication Basics

Lecture 20 Logging In

Lecture 21 Logging Out & Misc Details

Section 5: Blog Posts

Lecture 22 Blog Posts

Lecture 23 Single Blog Post URL (Part 1)

Lecture 24 Single Blog Post URL (Part 2)

Lecture 25 What Is Markdown?

Lecture 26 What Is Middleware?

Lecture 27 User Profile (List of Their Blog Posts)

Lecture 28 Updating & Deleting Posts (Policy)

Lecture 29 Policy Middleware

Lecture 30 How To Setup "Moderator" Permissions

Lecture 31 Admin Only Pages (What is a Gate?)

Section 6: User Uploaded Files (Avatar)

Lecture 32 Letting Users Upload Files

Lecture 33 Resizing Images With PHP

Lecture 34 Using Avatar in Database & Blade

Section 7: Users Following Each Other

Lecture 35 Saving a "Follow" Into Our Database

Lecture 36 Removing a Follow

Lecture 37 Profile Pages (Part 1)

Lecture 38 Profile Pages (Part 2)

Lecture 39 List Of Users (Model Relationships)

Lecture 40 Homepage Feed of Posts

Lecture 41 Pagination

Lecture 42 Document / Page Title & Post Component

Section 8: Search

Lecture 43 Search (Back-End)

Lecture 44 Asset Bundling Vite Setup

Section 9: Chat

Lecture 45 Events & Listeners

Lecture 46 Important Note For Windows Users

Lecture 47 Broadcasting (Part 1)

Lecture 48 Broadcasting (Part 2)

Section 10: Staying Organized

Lecture 49 Profile SPA (Part 1)

Lecture 50 Profile SPA ( Part 2)

Section 11: Email

Lecture 51 Sending Email

Lecture 52 Adding Jobs To The Queue

Lecture 53 Scheduling Tasks

Section 12: Cache

Lecture 54 Cache

Section 13: API Authentication (Sanctum)

Lecture 55 API Endpoints (Part 1)

Lecture 56 API Endpoints (Part 2)

Section 14: Going Live Practice

Lecture 57 Going Live (Overview)

Lecture 58 Docker Practice (Part 1)

Lecture 59 Docker Practice (Part 2)

Lecture 60 Finishing Our Docker Practice

Section 15: Deploying To Actual VPS

Lecture 61 Creating The Cloud VPS

Lecture 62 Using A Domain

Lecture 63 Using SSH Keys Instead of Passwords

Lecture 64 The Environment That Laravel Needs

Lecture 65 Using Git To Push Files To Our VPS (Part 1)

Lecture 66 Using Git To Push Files To Our VPS (Part 2)

Lecture 67 HTTPS Encryption + Final Details

Anyone who wants to begin creating web applications using Laravel & PHP.