Laravel Introduction

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In this quick article, I want to give you a quick introduction to Laravel, which is a popular PHP framework that makes building applications very easy and enjoyable.

What is it?

Laravel is a framework for the PHP programming language. PHP is a programming language that has been around for a long time. In fact, Facebook was first created with the PHP language.

You can build some pretty amazing web applications with PHP; however, if you use Laravel, you can build those features and functionality even quicker. Laravel makes it easy to work with the database, routing, caching, validation, and so much more.

A Quick Example

After you have installed Laravel on your machine, you can easily create a new page by opening up the routes/web.php file. If you open this file you will probably see something similar to the following code:

<?php

use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Route;

/*
|----------------------------------------------------------------
| Web Routes
|----------------------------------------------------------------
|
| Here is where you can register web routes for your application. These
| routes are loaded by the RouteServiceProvider within a group which
| contains the "web" middleware group. Now create something great!
|
*/

Route::get('/', function () {
    return view('welcome');
});

As you can see from the code above, when you visit the / home route of your application, it will return a new view located at resources/views/welcome.blade.php. But let's make it even simpler, how about we just echo a message out to the screen. If we add the following code to our routes file:

Route::get('hello', function () {
    echo 'Hello from Laravel!';
});

We could then visit the route: /hello in our browser, and we'll see the following message on the screen:

laravel-example.png

It doesn't get much easier than that, right? You'll want to make sure to learn more about Laravel; however, this was just a quick example to show you how easy it can be.

Learning More

The Laravel eco-system and community are constantly growing, and there are so many resources available today on where you can learn more about Laravel. Here are just a few resources:

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When you need to debug a Laravel problem, you'll probably find yourself on the Laracasts forum or a Stackoverflow article.

Conclusion

Laravel has been gaining a lot of popularity over the last couple of years, and there couldn't be a better time to start learning all about this fantastic framework.

There are many other languages and frameworks available today; however, Laravel has so many advantages. If you want to create a web application and you need authentication, API access, caching, billing, and countless other features, then make sure to reach for Laravel.

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