Laravel PHP Framework Tutorial - Full Course for Beginners (2019)

Learn Laravel 5.8 by creating an Instagram clone in this full tutorial course for beginners. Laravel is a free, open-source PHP web framework used for creating web applications.

⭐️Course Contents ⭐️
⌨️ (0:00) Introduction
⌨️ (1:14) What is Laravel?
⌨️ (2:07) Installing Laravel
⌨️ (5:30) First look at the project
⌨️ (7:15) Intro to php artisan
⌨️ (11:42) Generating login flow with make:auth
⌨️ (12:04) Setting Up the Front End with Node and NPM
⌨️ (20:00) Migrations and Setting Up SQLite
⌨️ (26:00) Designing the UI from Instagram
⌨️ (42:12) Adding Username to the Registration Flow
⌨️ (58:35) Creating the Profiles Controller
⌨️ (1:04:00) RESTful Resource Controller
⌨️ (1:09:10) Passing Data to the View
⌨️ (1:10:20) Adding the Profiles Mode, Migration and Table
⌨️ (1:17:30) Adding Eloquent Relationships
⌨️ (1:28:10) Fetching the Record From The Database
⌨️ (1:30:00) Adding Posts to the Database & Many To Many Relationship
⌨️ (2:04:24) Creating Through a Relationship
⌨️ (2:08:12) Uploading/Saving the Image to the Project
⌨️ (2:19:19) Resizing Images with Intervention Image PHP Library
⌨️ (2:27:42) Route Model Binding
⌨️ (2:31:48) Editing the Profile
⌨️ (2:46:46) Restricting/Authorizing Actions with a Model Policy
⌨️ (2:54:50) Editing the Profile Image
⌨️ (3:00:00) Automatically Creating A Profile Using Model Events
⌨️ (3:12:56) Default Profile Image
⌨️ (3:31:28) Many To Many Relationship
⌨️ (3:46:33) Calculating Followers Count and Following Count
⌨️ (3:48:55) Laravel Telescope
⌨️ (3:51:44) Showing Posts from Profiles The User Is Following
⌨️ (4:01:03) Pagination with Eloquent
⌨️ (4:03:25) N + 1 Problem & Solution
⌨️ (4:05:21) Make Use of Cache for Expensive Query
⌨️ (4:11:44) Sending Emails to New Registered Users
⌨️ (4:21:51) Wrapping Up
⌨️ (4:22:37) Closing Remarks & What's Next In your Learning

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[paul_kapela]

Hello, I've done this tutorial few months ago and now I'm building an entire commercial website. Thank you very much!

[fancyAlex]

Just finished the whole project. For anyone who is starting this project and you are wondering if it is worth it ? It is 100 % worth it, I attended an interview last week that required the candidate to know Laravel, at this point of time, I only had 3 weeks experience in Laravel and I did show them an incomplete version of this project. Long story short, I got an offer from them to join the company.

Update Dec 2020: I never received any notifications from this comment. Hence I apologize for not replying your comments. I still work as web dev mainly in Laravel & Vue & Angular. Currently due to MCO, many companies are hiring for Laravel Devs in my country, hence creating a linkedin profile would be very helpful for you to get jobs. Hope this motivates someone who is doing and watching this tutorial.

[DiegoSayron]

*### FIX ISSUES ###*
*FIX/TIP (**4:15**) - echo $PATH* does not work under windows (prompt). Instead, you must try just "path" (remove the quotations) on cmd/prompt.

*FIX (**9:38**)* - ERROR "Could not open input file: artisan" when run "php artisan serve": As he said, we must run this command *inside* the project folder.

*FIX (**11:45**)* - make:auth works only on Laravel 5.8 and older versions.* The newer version, try:
1. composer require laravel/ui
2. php artisan ui vue --auth
3. npm install && npm run dev

*FIX (**22:00**) - If you try to use "vim" over Windows cmd:* for Windows users, "vim" should not works. So, being at the project folder, try: copy con database\database.sqlite (press enter, so F6 then, enter again). It will create the file with nothing inside. METHOD 2: re-create this file using a different method, like (under windows os) right-click on the project folder, "create new text file" (but rename the extension txt to sqlite!) and rename it to database.sqlite

*FIX (**23:35**) -* console echoes for php artisan migrate: *"Could not find driver (SQL: PRAGMA...":* Just open php.ini and uncomment extension=pdo_sqlite (or extension=pdo_mysql if you use it).
If this error persists, even after uncommenting extension=pdo_sqlite, with PHP Warning "PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'pdo_sqlite'". Try fix that by typing:
sudo apt-get install php7.4-sqlite
(Thanks to @Sjors Peterse)

[mansoorburdi]

The best tutorial to learn Laravel. He define everything he uses in code and he teaches alot in just one go.
Thank you for teaching us sir.

[mikegoodsell]

This is perhaps the best tutorial of any kind I have ever seen. I don't know if it's because I was impressed with Laravel's functionality, or the instructor's delivery. Maybe a combo of both. Everything worked, and everything was clear and concise. It was jam-packed with information, and took me 3 days to get through, and will probably take me another month to fully understand, but, as a tutorial, I was able to understand and follow everything being said and my results matched the instructors. Many real world issues were touched on. The only issues I had on my end was the new auth() functionality, which someone else mentioned. Additionally, I was not using PHPStorm, so, in a couple of places use paths were added within the tutorial that were not automatically added in mine - However, since everything else was so concise, I was able to debug without much issue. All in all, an exceptional beginning course. Five stars. Thank you.

[andrewaldridge]

Great tutorial!

Unlike so many intro videos I started but abandoned it is really well paced, nice and fast with very little repetition: perfect for introducing Laravel to people already familiar with PHP, HTML and Bootstrap. Thanks Victor.

[ladenbin]

I legit have a job now because of this single video. You saved me and my family's life. Thank you so much.

[lucasvieira]

I'm still at 1:30:00 of the course, but man... I'm really appreciating it and I want to thank you for this absolutely amazing material. Have recommended for all my friends who wants to learn Laravel. For real, thanks for this marvelous course.

[UnboxSolutions]

⭐️Course Contents ⭐️
⌨️ (0:00) Introduction
⌨️ (1:14) What is Laravel?
⌨️ (2:07) Installing Laravel
⌨️ (5:30) First look at the project
⌨️ (7:15) Intro to php artisan
⌨️ (11:42) Generating login flow with make:auth
⌨️ (12:04) Setting Up the Front End with Node and NPM
⌨️ (20:00) Migrations and Setting Up SQLite
⌨️ (26:00) Designing the UI from Instagram
⌨️ (42:12) Adding Username to the Registration Flow
⌨️ (58:35) Creating the Profiles Controller
⌨️ (1:04:00) RESTful Resource Controller
⌨️ (1:09:10) Passing Data to the View
⌨️ (1:10:20) Adding the Profiles Mode, Migration and Table
⌨️ (1:17:30) Adding Eloquent Relationships
⌨️ (1:28:10) Fetching the Record From The Database
⌨️ (1:30:00) Adding Posts to the Database & Many To Many Relationship
⌨️ (2:04:24) Creating Through a Relationship
⌨️ (2:08:12) Uploading/Saving the Image to the Project
⌨️ (2:19:19) Resizing Images with Intervention Image PHP Library
⌨️ (2:27:42) Route Model Binding
⌨️ (2:31:48) Editing the Profile
⌨️ (2:46:46) Restricting/Authorizing Actions with a Model Policy
⌨️ (2:54:50) Editing the Profile Image
⌨️ (3:00:00) Automatically Creating A Profile Using Model Events
⌨️ (3:12:56) Default Profile Image
⌨️ (3:19:48) Follow/Unfollow Profiles Using a Vue.js Component
⌨️ (3:31:28) Many To Many Relationship
⌨️ (3:46:33) Calculating Followers Count and Following Count
⌨️ (3:48:55) Laravel Telescope
⌨️ (3:51:44) Showing Posts from Profiles The User Is Following
⌨️ (4:01:03) Pagination with Eloquent
⌨️ (4:03:25) N + 1 Problem & Solution
⌨️ (4:05:21) Make Use of Cache for Expensive Query
⌨️ (4:11:44) Sending Emails to New Registered Users
⌨️ (4:21:51) Wrapping Up
⌨️ (4:22:37) Closing Remarks & What's Next In your Learning

[benjaminshpigler]

Can't stop watching... makes you feel like a wizzard... even when you just follow the steps of the master ;-)

[xteclisx]

Might just be the single best programming tutorial I've ever watched start to finish. Well done mate.

[vincentkhamala]

am so impressed as a young developer who's still in school, i followed this tutorial and i really built something amazing. thanks to Victor you're really awesome. thanks so much

[manishfoodtechs]

In Laravel 6.0 make:auth no longer exists:php artisan make:auth ( which works for Laravel 5.8 and older versions )
Solution:
Run :composer require laravel/ui
php artisan ui:auth
You can also generate the views only with:
php artisan ui:auth --views

[cedricreed]

OMG! Thank you for this Tutorial, i have been going back and forth with learning Laravel, since the first time I tried to get it loaded, from NPM to Composer and nothing was working for me and I couldnt get Laravel loaded. So after a couple of months of getting up to speed with more PHP and command lines I came across this video and within the first 25Mins I had Laravel loaded and up and running. You ROCK Man!! Thank you for expertise sir, very much appreciated.

[sebot]

Wow, Victor, this is the most greatest howto video in the web! Your lesson extremely fast gives all of info that is really needed.

Awesome!

[UnderTheGoldenGate]

This video saved my project! Thank you so much. I spent weeks trying to find a book or docs on how to get started with Laravel (like you would expect with a "For Dummies" book complete with working examples), but everything I found didn't have working examples, or wandered around in circles, or gave snippets of examples none of which works. Out of desperation I came to YouTube and found this video.

I was able to start from scratch and work through this video in less than a week, and within a few days I have my prototype up and running. I never used Laravel before, only had a little bit of PHP experience. Awesome!

[JakobDam]

Wow. This is by far the best tutorial for anything I've ever followed - and I've followed a lot of tutorials in very different genres. I like the pace, the way things are explained at exactly the right time etc.


I followed this video using Notepad++ rather than PHP Storm, and had no issues at all.

[anon]

This was my first intro to laravel and I followed the whole project through. Incredibly well explained! Thanks

[DiegoSayron]

You rock, Man! You made I fall in love to PHP + Laravel after 32 years programming in client-server languages.
I must continue my studies at 38:23

[Jackerz]

I've just spent this day completing this tutorial and doing some research. It was a great, thank you! I'm much more confident with Laravel now.