Duration
4 days
Overview
Laravel is a free, open source PHP web application framework, designed for development of MVC web applications. Laravel is released under MIT license, with its source code hosted on GitHub.
Laravel has taken the PHP community by storm, with its incredibly expressive syntax, the most powerful Active-Record implementation available, a robust command line tool, and much more.
This is an in-depth Laravel Training, which is an open source project to create websites with easy development techniques. Laravel follows the elegant, expressive syntax. Laravel makes the development procedure a gratifying one for the developers without sacrificing applications functionality. Laravel course will acquaint participants with accessible tools needed for robust, large applications.
Target Participants
This course is designed for Developers who wish to know how to develop web applications using Laravel PHP Framework.
Program Prerequisites
Participants should have practical experience of writing web applications in PHP.
Course Objectives
- Participants will learn how to:-
- Set up and install Laravel
- Use forms and gather/validate inputs
- Create an authentication system for the application
- Store and use data by creating data tables and raw SQL statements
- Use controllers and routes for APIs and URLs
- Display views and loading nested views
- Create and using composer packages
- Use jQuery and Ajax
- Implement security and sessions effectively using encryption/decryption
- Deploy and integrate third-party services into application
Mode of Delivery
Every participant will be provided with course notes and are required to bring in their own laptops for hands-on exercise and practice sessions.
Day 1
- Basic Scripting, Conditional and Looping Constructs
- PHP Scripting Fundamentals
- Print Statement
- Code Blocks
- Primitive Data Types
- Defining Constants and Variables
- Looping Constructs
- while, do… while, for, exit and break
- True and False Expressions
- if, else and elseif
- switch/case Statement
- The ? (Ternary) Operator
- Modularity through Include Files
- Using Include Files
- The Require Statement
- Modularizing Code with Functions
- Defining and Using Basic Functions
- PHP Operators
- Logical Operators
- Relational Operators
- Bitwise Operators
- Other Operators
- PHP7 Null Coalescing operator
- PHP7 Spaceship Operator
- PHP Functions
- Introduction to Functions
- Declaring Functions
- Scope
- Passing Arguments to Functions
- Local and Global Scope
- Passing Arguments to Functions by Value and Reference
- Variable Scoping and Return Values
- Recursion
- Coercive and Strict Type Declarations for Parameters and Return Values
- Optional and REST Parameters
- Argument Unpacking
- Generator Return Expressions
- Dynamic Function Calls
- Predefined PHP Functions
- Arrays in PHP
- What are Arrays?
- Usage of Arrays in PHP
- Array Indexing
- Initializing Arrays
- Operating on Arrays
- Sorting Arrays
- One-Dimensional and Multi-Dimensional Arrays
- Associative Arrays
- Array Functions
- Forms and Arrays in Web Applications
- Basic OOP in PHP
- Defining Object Oriented Programming
- Creating New Objects in PHP
- PHP Object Syntax
- Using Predefined PHP OOP Libraries
- Implementing New Classes
- Extending Classes
- Understanding Private, Public and Protected
- Inheriting Methods and Properties
- Overriding Methods and Properties
Overview
- Installation and Composer
- Configuration
- Request, Routing & Responses
- Request Lifecycle
- Basic Routing
- Route Parameters
- Views
- Views Data
- Redirects
- Custom Responses
- Response Shortcuts
- Controllers
- Creating Controllers
- Controller Routing
- RESTful Controllers
- Blade
- Creating Templates
- PHP Output
- Controller Structures
- Templates Inheritance
- Unit Testing
Introduction
- Environment
- Creating and Running Tests
- HTTP Tests
- Browser Tests
Day 3
- Advanced Routing
- Named Routes
- Secure Routes
- Parameter Constraints
- Route Groups
- Route Prefixing
- Domain Routing
- URL Generation
- The current URL
- Generating Framework URLs
- Asset URLs
- Generation Shortcuts
- Request Data
- Retrieval
- Old Input
- Uploaded Files
- Cookies
- Forms
- Opening Forms
- Form Fields
- Form Buttons
- Form Macro
- Form Security
- Validation
- Simple Validation
- Validation Rules
- Error Messages
- Custom Validation Rules
- Custom Validation Messages
- Security
- Configuration
- Storing Passwords
- Authenticating Users
- Manually Logging In Users
- Protecting Routes
- HTTP Basic Authentication
- Password Reminders & Reset
- Encryption
- Authentication Drivers
Day 4
- Databases
- Abstraction
- Configuration
- Preparing
- Schema Builder
- Creating Tables
- Column Types
- Column Modifiers
- Updating Tables
- Dropping Tables
- Schema Tricks
- Migrations
- Basic Concept
- Creating Migrations
- Running Migrations
- Rolling Back
- Migration tricks
- Eloquent
- Models, Tinker, Legacy DBs
- Scopes - Global Scopes and Traits
- Accessors and Mutators
- Creating and Updating
- Advanced Where and When
- Relationships
- Relationship Queries
- Querying Relationship Children
- Collections
- Elixir
- Installing Node.JS
- Installing Elixir Repertoire Designer
- Installing Database Drivers and Additional Class Files
- Adding Data Source
- Adding Page Title Header
- Populating the Report
- Sorting and Grouping
- Labelling
- Creating Elixir Task
- Compiling with Laravel Elixir and Running Elixir
- Implementing RESTful Servers with PHP
- Understanding RESTful Servers
- Benefits of PHP for Implementing RESTful Servers
- Using HTTP Verbs to Access Data
- Understanding RESTful URIs
- Defining PHP Objects to Access RESTful URIs
- Effective Use of OOP Inheritance
- Implementing a RESTful Server in PHP for a Small Application
- JSON Security
Introduction
- Middleware Authentication
- Authorizers
- Controller Authorization
- Helpers
- Conclusion
Programme scope, delivery arrangements and suitability are confirmed during enquiry.