Laravel 7 for Beginners practical course

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Preparation

Lecture 1: Tipps for efficient learning experience in this course

Lecture 2: Requirements for Laravel

Chapter 2: Installation and first steps

Lecture 1: Laravel installation

Lecture 2: Initialize Git

Lecture 3: Change starting page

Chapter 3: Frontend and Login Setup

Lecture 1: Laravel UI => Frontend Framework and Login Scaffolding

Lecture 2: Integrate your own CSS and JavaScript

Lecture 3: Install Font Awesome

Lecture 4: Connect the database and first migration

Lecture 5: Create and output a user

Lecture 6: Test "Remember me" and "Forgot your password"

Lecture 7: Unescape Output Example

Lecture 8: Create static pages and navigation highlight

Lecture 9: Template system for views + page title / page description

Lecture 10: Recap of what you learned so far

Chapter 4: Database queries (CRUD)

Lecture 1: Section introduction: What you will learn

Lecture 2: MVC + make:model -a, Naming conventions

Lecture 3: Migration for hobbies table

Lecture 4: Routing to functions and usage of placeholders

Lecture 5: Resource route to HobbyController

Lecture 6: Retrieve Hobbies and add navigation for hobbies

Lecture 7: Output / Display the hobbies (index method)

Lecture 8: Form for new hobbies (create method)

Lecture 9: Save new hobbies

Lecture 10: Server-side validation of Laravel with validate()

Lecture 11: Validation: Error of all fields

Lecture 12: Validation: Error of individual fields

Lecture 13: Output success messages

Lecture 14: Detailed view of data records with show()

Lecture 15: Edit records with edit()

Lecture 16: Update records with update()

Lecture 17: Delete records with destroy()

Lecture 18: Cheat Sheet + Challenge: CRUD for tags

Lecture 19: Exercise Solution: CRUD for Tags

Chapter 5: Database relationships

Lecture 1: Database design and planning

Lecture 2: Migrate additional field (user_id in hobbies table)

Lecture 3: m:n Create intermediate table hobby_tag (pivot table)

Lecture 4: migrate: fresh for faster workflow. When to use it and WHEN NOT

Lecture 5: Static value seeder (tags table)

Lecture 6: Faker to seed 100 users

Lecture 7: Use each() to seed the linked database tables

Lecture 8: Link models with Eloquent Relationships

Lecture 9: Test the relationships in Laravel Tinker

Lecture 10: Tinker and Collection examples + deeper insight 😉

Chapter 6: Data output and data linking

Lecture 1: Pagination + URL :: previous()

Lecture 2: Insert user_id with auth->id() when creating hobbies

Lecture 3: Sort DB query results with orderBy / diffForHumans (Carbon)

Lecture 4: $hobby->user->name + count() to display the number of hobbies

Lecture 5: Install and use the Laravel debug bar to show SQL queries

Lecture 6: Output of the tags in the hobbies with "Bootstrap badges"

Lecture 7: Challenge: User detail page

Lecture 8: Challenge solution

Lecture 9: Filter hobbies by tag (hobbyTagController)

Lecture 10: Custom Error page (e.g. 404)

Lecture 11: Assign tags to hobbies (or remove) with attach() / detach()

Lecture 12: Tag statistics

Lecture 13: Improve hobby creation workflow

Lecture 14: Show my hobbies on home page (select () ->)

Lecture 15: Challenge: Show hobbies on user detail page

Lecture 16: Show hobbies on user page: Exercise solution

Lecture 17: Recap and cheat sheet

Chapter 7: Image upload

Lecture 1: Image upload introduction

Lecture 2: Prepare frontend for images

Lecture 3: Install Lightbox2

Lecture 4: Install Intervention Image

Lecture 5: Validate file input and upload the file

Lecture 6: Determine the orientation of the picture

Lecture 7: Convert and save images

Lecture 8: Outsource image calculation into function

Lecture 9: Display the images

Lecture 10: Image delete function

Lecture 11: Exercise: edit user and user picture

Lecture 12: Resolution: User model and user controller (part 1)

Lecture 13: Resolution: User edit (part 2)

Lecture 14: Resolution: Output user images (part 3)

Lecture 15: Git Merge, Image Upload Recap, Outlook

Chapter 8: User authorization in Laravel

Lecture 1: Section Introduction

Lecture 2: Plan the user rights

Lecture 3: Control guests with the Auth() middleware

Lecture 4: Apply Auth() middleware to the rest of the controllers

Lecture 5: Middleware explained

Lecture 6: Switch app to “production” to prevent migrate:fresh

Lecture 7: Create admin user correctly (migration + seeder)

Lecture 8: Create admin middleware and use it for the tags

Lecture 9: Set up policies (make only your own data records editable)

Lecture 10: Apply hobby policy

Lecture 11: User- and Tag policies

Lecture 12: Control buttons in the frontend with @can

Lecture 13: Gates to control the assignment of the tags

Lecture 14: Authorization section's recap

Chapter 9: Extras

Lecture 1: Congrats & How to go on