Laravel Explained: PHP's Elegant Framework
Introduction Laravel is PHP's most popular framework, and it is famous for one thing above all: developer experience. Where raw PHP leaves every decision to you — routing, database access, authentication, templating — Laravel provides elegant, well-documented answers for all of them, so a solo developer can build a complete application remarkably fast. Routing: URLs as readable declarations In Laravel, a route is a single readable line mapping a URL to what should happen: // routes/web.php Route::get('/posts', [PostController::class, 'index']); Route::get('/posts/{post}', [PostController::class, 'show']); Route::post('/posts', [PostController::class, 'store']); {post} is a parameter — visiting /posts/42 hands the post with ID 42 to the show method. GET routes display things, POST routes accept submissions, and the whole application's URL map reads like a table of contents. Eloquent: the database, in PHP objects Eloquent is Laravel...