Training Program

Laravel 12

This 3-day accelerated Laravel 12 program delivers focused coverage of the essential Laravel development workflow, combining strong PHP foundations, core framework concepts, database integration, APIs, security, and deployment practices in a compact format.

Duration

3 Days

Overview

This 3-day accelerated Laravel 12 program is designed for PHP developers who want broad and practical exposure to modern Laravel development in a shorter timeframe. The course preserves the essential foundation topics needed to understand Laravel properly, including modern PHP concepts, framework structure, configuration, routing, controllers, Blade, and database integration, while streamlining advanced areas such as APIs, security, deployment, and integration for efficient delivery. By the end of the program, participants will gain solid working knowledge of Laravel 12 and understand how its major building blocks fit together in real-world web application development.

Introduction

Laravel is a powerful MVC PHP framework created by Taylor Otwell and designed to give developers a clean, elegant, and productive toolkit for building full-featured web applications. Laravel 12 continues this modern development approach with strong support for routing, controllers, Blade templating, database access, APIs, authentication, middleware, deployment workflows, and application integration. This 3-day program is structured to help developers who already know basic PHP and web development quickly understand how Laravel applications are organized and how to use the framework effectively in practical project scenarios.

Topics Covered

Modern PHP Foundations for Laravel
Laravel Overview
Installation and Environment Setup
Application Structure and Configuration
Routing and Controllers
Views, Blade, Forms, and Validation
Working with Database and Migrations
Request, Response, and REST APIs
Authentication, Middleware, and Mobile Integration
Security, Sessions, and File Handling
Events, Jobs, Notifications, and Performance
Version Control, Deployment, and Troubleshooting
Integration with Other Frameworks
Hands-On Project

Audience Profile

PHP developers, web developers, and technical learners who already use basic PHP and want to build structured modern web applications and APIs using Laravel.

Prerequisites

Participants should have prior knowledge of basic PHP, HTML, CSS, SQL, and general website development concepts. Prior Laravel experience is not required.

Day 1 - Foundations, Environment Setup, and Core Laravel Concepts

1. Modern PHP Foundations for Laravel

Modern PHP overview
Variables, arrays, and associative arrays
Functions
Passing functions as arguments
Anonymous functions and closures
OOP fundamentals
Classes and objects
Inheritance
Interfaces and abstract classes
Traits
Namespaces
Type declarations and return types
Composer and autoloading basics
Practical PHP patterns commonly used in Laravel

2. Laravel Overview

What is Laravel (Modern Laravel 12 perspective)
MVC Architecture (for beginners)
Laravel vs Native PHP (client context)
How Laravel fits into enterprise and API ecosystems

3. Installation and Environment Setup

Installing PHP, Composer, Node
Laravel 12 installation
Project structure walkthrough
Local development setup (XAMPP / Docker optional)

4. Application Structure and Configuration

App, Routes, Config, Database, Resources
Understanding request lifecycle
.env deep dive
Environment-based configuration
Debug mode and production mode
Config caching

5. Routing and Controllers

Basic routing
Route parameters
API routing vs Web routing
Creating controllers
Resource controllers
Dependency injection

6. Views, Blade, Forms, and Validation

Blade basics
Layouts
Passing data
Form handling
Validation rules
Error handling

Day 2 - Database, CRUD Workflow, and API Development

7. Working with Database and Migrations

Connecting Laravel to MariaDB
Eloquent ORM basics
Query Builder
Migrating existing database to Laravel
Reverse engineering existing DB
Creating migrations from existing schema
Handling legacy database structures

8. Request, Response, and REST APIs

Handling input
JSON responses
API validation
REST fundamentals (for beginners)
Building API endpoints
API versioning

9. Authentication, Middleware, and Mobile Integration

Token-based authentication (Laravel Sanctum)
Login API
Securing endpoints
API middleware
Authentication middleware
How mobile apps connect to Laravel APIs
JSON data flow
CORS handling
Testing APIs using Postman

Day 3 - Security, Deployment, Integration, and Production Readiness

10. Security, Sessions, and File Handling

CSRF protection
Authentication vs Authorization
API security
Session handling
Stateless APIs vs session apps
Upload files
Cloud storage concepts

11. Events, Jobs, Notifications, and Performance

Event-driven architecture
Background jobs (intro)
Sending emails
Queue basics
Whatsapp
Caching
Query optimization
Config caching
Route caching

12. Version Control, Deployment, and Troubleshooting

Git basics (for beginners)
GitLab workflow: Clone, commit, push
Branching strategy
Managing Laravel project in GitLab
Local to server deployment
Environment differences
Build steps: composer install npm build and config cache
.env for production
Security best practices
File permissions
Why it works locally but fails in server
Case sensitivity
Environment configs
Missing extensions
Cache issues
Debugging strategies

13. Integration with Other Frameworks

Monolithic vs Microservices
Laravel as API provider / consumer
Django = AI/ML service and Laravel = Business API
API-to-API Communication
Consuming Django APIs in Laravel
Authentication Between Systems

14. Hands-On Project

Build CRUD system
Connect to MariaDB
Create APIs
Integrate with Postman (simulate mobile)
Push to GitLab
Deploy to server