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Laravel is the most popular modern PHP framework, known for its expressive, elegant syntax and a huge, well-documented feature set that covers nearly everything a real-world web application needs — routing, an ORM, templating, authentication, background jobs, testing, and more, all designed to work together cleanly. This is the most complete track on this site: 30 lessons covering Laravel from your first route all the way through queues, events, broadcasting, and testing, so that landing on this page gives you a genuinely full picture of how Laravel works.

Where this fits: Laravel assumes solid Core PHP and OOP knowledge (classes, interfaces, namespaces) — if any of that feels shaky, the Core PHP track is worth a refresher first. Composer knowledge is assumed too, since Laravel is installed and managed entirely through it.

What Makes Laravel Different

Compared to...	Laravel's approach
Core PHP	Instead of wiring up routing, database access, and templating yourself, Laravel gives you all of it out of the box, consistently designed
CodeIgniter / Slim	Laravel is a full-stack, "batteries included" framework — it ships with an ORM (Eloquent), a queue system, an event system, and more, rather than staying minimal
CakePHP / Symfony	Laravel leans on "convenience over ceremony" — expressive, chainable APIs (Eloquent, the Query Builder, the routing API) rather than heavier configuration-driven setups

A Quick Look Ahead

Example: A Route, a Controller, and Eloquent Working Together

<?php
// routes/web.php
Route::get('/articles/{id}', [ArticleController::class, 'show']);

// app/Http/Controllers/ArticleController.php
class ArticleController extends Controller
{
    public function show(Article $article)
    {
        return view('articles.show', ['article' => $article]);
    }
}

Note: This is correct, real Laravel code — but this website's own project doesn't run a Laravel application, so you won't see it actually execute on this page. Follow along by installing Laravel locally after the next page's setup steps.

What You'll Learn In This Track

Area	Covered in
Foundations	Installation, directory structure, routing, controllers, Blade
Data layer	Eloquent models, relationships, query scopes, migrations, seeders
Application architecture	The service container, service providers, middleware, form requests/validation
Users & access	Authentication, authorization (Gates & Policies)
Background & real-time work	Events, jobs/queues, task scheduling, caching, broadcasting
Shipping it	API resources, file storage, mail/notifications, testing, security

Next steps: Head to Installation & Setup to create your first Laravel project via Composer.

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