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Laravel Introduction
Laravel is a PHP framework that uses the MVC architecture. Laravel is a robust framework that provides easy development of PHP web applications with features like a modular packaging system with a dedicated dependency manager, access to relational databases, and other utilities for application deployment and maintenance.
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Laravel – Introduction
Laravel – Configuration
Laravel – Installation
Laravel – Application Structure
Laravel Routing
Routing is one of the essential concepts in Laravel. Routing in Laravel allows you to route all your application requests to its appropriate controller. The main functionality of the routes is to route all your application requests to the appropriate controller.
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Laravel – Routing
Laravel – Middleware
Laravel – Namespaces
Laravel Controllers
Laravel controllers are an essential feature in a Laravel framework.
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Laravel Controllers
Private: Laravel
    About Lesson

    If you are new to Laravel, you should know that you can create a configuration file for the Laravel application. And after installing the Laravel, you need to perform the permission writing for your storage directory along with the bootstrap/cache.

    Next, you have to generate the application key for session securing and encrypted data keys. In case the root directory doesn’t have the .env file, in that case, you will have to rename the file .env.example to .env and run the command mentioned below where you’ve installed the Laravel:

    php artisan key: generate

     

    You can see in the .env file the newly generated key. Moreover, it is also possible to configure the time zone as well as a locale in the config/app.php file of your project.

     

    Environment Configuration

    Environment variables provide a list of web services to your web application. All the environment variables are declared in the .env file which contains the parameters required for initializing the configuration.

    APP_NAME=Laravel
    APP_ENV=local
    APP_KEY=base64:/u0xl40fjwHmQigZdnUPtV/K8HAL5jDJTulTx8O779E=
    APP_DEBUG=true
    APP_URL=http://localhost

    LOG_CHANNEL=stack

    DB_CONNECTION=mysql
    DB_HOST=127.0.0.1
    DB_PORT=3306
    DB_DATABASE=laravel
    DB_USERNAME=root
    DB_PASSWORD=

    BROADCAST_DRIVER=log
    CACHE_DRIVER=file
    QUEUE_CONNECTION=sync
    SESSION_DRIVER=file
    SESSION_LIFETIME=120

    REDIS_HOST=127.0.0.1
    REDIS_PASSWORD=null
    REDIS_PORT=6379

    MAIL_MAILER=smtp
    MAIL_HOST=smtp.mailtrap.io
    MAIL_PORT=2525
    MAIL_USERNAME=null
    MAIL_PASSWORD=null
    MAIL_ENCRYPTION=null
    MAIL_FROM_ADDRESS=null
    MAIL_FROM_NAME="${APP_NAME}"

    AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=
    AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=
    AWS_DEFAULT_REGION=us-east-1
    AWS_BUCKET=

    PUSHER_APP_ID=
    PUSHER_APP_KEY=
    PUSHER_APP_SECRET=
    PUSHER_APP_CLUSTER=mt1

    MIX_PUSHER_APP_KEY="${PUSHER_APP_KEY}"
    MIX_PUSHER_APP_CLUSTER="${PUSHER_APP_CLUSTER}"

     

    Accessing Configuration Values

    Using the global config helper function, you can easily access the configuration values anywhere in the application. In case the configuration values are not initialized, default values are returned.

    For example, to set the default time zone, the following code is used −

    config(['app.timezone' => 'Asia/Kolkata']);

     

    Configuring the Database

    You can configure the database for your application using the config/database.php file of your project. Setting the configuration constraint utilized by various databases can also be done, and Laravel also allowed us to use the default one.

     

    Configuring the Cache

    To increase the performance and boost the web application, it is important to cache all the configuration values. The command for caching the configuration values is −

    php artisan config:cache

     

    Maintenance Mode

    Sometimes you may need to update some configuration values or perform maintenance on your website. In such cases, keeping it in maintenance mode makes it easier for you. Such web applications which are kept in maintenance mode, throw an exception namely MaintenanceModeException with a status code of 503.

    You can enable the maintenance mode on your Laravel web application using the following command −

    php artisan down

     

    After finishing the work on updates and other maintenance, you can disable the maintenance mode on your web application using the following command −

    php artisan up

     

     

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