Laravel in 2 minute read
Laravel is an open source PHP web framework that created by Taylor Otwell in 2011. It is designed to be a web framework with expressive and elegant syntax. Laravel provides a structure and starting point for create application.
Laravel follows Model-View-Controller architecture which separates three interconnected components model, view and controller. Model represent the data that can live in a wide variety of database while view is what the end user sees and controller is the connector of them.
Getting started
To get started, install php and composer then create a new laravel project using composer create laravel/laravel project-name and it will create the laravel project with the structure like image below.
Write your routes in routes/web.php for web routes or routes/api.php for api routes. Create a controller file to handle the requests from routes that defined before. For database connection instead using a raw queries, laravel provide an ORM (object-relational mapper) called Eloquent so each database table has a corresponding “Model”. Laravel also has a templating engine called blade which is a php and html in a single file that you can render from the controller or anywhere.
Run php artisan serve to start your apps
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References
- https://laravel.com/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laravel