Introduction to Laravel

Laravel is the most widely used PHP framework — batteries included: routing, an ORM (Eloquent), templating (Blade), and everything from this course wired together conventionally.

// routes/web.php
Route::get('/users/{id}', function (int $id) {
    return User::findOrFail($id);
});

// app/Models/User.php
class User extends Model
{
    protected $fillable = ['name', 'email'];
}

User::create(['name' => 'Ada', 'email' => 'ada@example.com']);

User::findOrFail($id) and User::create([...]) replace the raw PDO queries from Level 2 with an ORM — Eloquent generates the SQL, parameterized safely, from these expressive method calls.