Module 1Your Idea

Module 2Your Setup

Module 3Your Basic Web Application

Module 4Your Full Web Application

  • 13. The Start of Your Full Laravel Web App

    • learn why using a web application framework is so helpful
    • create the start of your full Laravel web application
    • learn about routes and how they direct traffic in a Laravel web app

  • 14. Your First Complete, Controller- and View-Powered Page

    • create your first Laravel controller for static pages
    • learn all about classes and how they work in PHP
    • create a full About page, powered by a route, your controller, and a new view

  • 15. Laravel Configuration & Database Migrations

    • create a new Git repository for your Laravel app
    • learn how to configure your Laravel environment
    • connect your app to the homestead database
    • learn how to use Laravel database migrations to manage your database
    • use a migration to create your [objects] table

  • 16. Migrating Your Dynamic Object Page

    • learn about CRUD and Laravel resources
    • create your first resource controller for your main object type
    • create a dynamic route to be used for your new dynamic show object page
    • learn how to pass data from a controller to a view

  • 17. Creating Your First Model To Get Your Objects' Info.

    • create your first Model — for your main object type
    • use that model in the show action your controller to retrieve your object's information
    • finish implementing your fully dynamic, MVC-powered show object page!

  • 18. Review: All the Core Pieces Are In Place

    • review the flow of a complete request in a full MVC web app
    • emphasize that you've already programmed the core of any web application
    • talk about what's next!

  • 19. Creating Wireframes To Design Your Core [Object]'s Pages

    • discuss the purpose of creating wireframes to design your application's pages
    • draw wireframes for your own application's core [object] pages

  • 20. Standardizing Your Pages With a Layout

    • create a universal page template to standardize the layout of your application's pages
    • convert your views to use the new layout, or template
    • create the start of your app's header and footer

  • 21. Making the App Pretty Using Bootstrap

    • install the Bootstrap framework to give your app a much-needed makeover
    • make your app appear nicely on all devices with responsive design
    • add a real header and footer
    • learn how to keep your views nice and organized using partial views

  • 22. Displaying Multiple Objects On One Page

    • translate your wireframes into a real page
    • implement a new page to display multiple [objects]

  • 23. Adding a Page to Create New Objects

    • implement a new create page route, action, and view
    • install the Forms & HTML library for creating forms and their elements
    • create the form using the Forms & HTML library functions and Bootstrap styles
    • learn how to retrieve form submission data

  • 24. Handling Form Submissions & Validating Object Creations

    • use your [Object] model to create new objects in the database
    • install the Esensi Models package and use it to set up model validation in your [Object] model
    • handle success and failure scenarios when attempting to create new objects

  • 25. Editing Existing Objects

    • learn about the HTTP PUT method
    • move the object form into a partial view and configure both the create and edit pages to load it
    • implement a full edit page for editing existing objects

  • 26. Deleting Existing Objects

    • learn about the HTTP DELETE request method
    • add a delete button to the bottom of the edit page
    • create new delete route
    • implement a controller action to delete objects from the database

  • 27. Review: All the CRUD

    • review the fact that you've now implemented all the aspects of CRUD in your application!
    • learn about what's coming up after this

  • 28. Adding Another Object Type and Object Relationships

    • design a database table for the new object type
    • learn how to establish relationships between database tables using foreign keys
    • create the new object type's database table and model
    • establish a relationship between your two models
    • use that relationship to retrieve one object's related objects

  • 29. CRUD For an Object With a Relationship (Part 1)

    • draw wireframes for your new object's interface displays
    • learn how to nest resources
    • add a single route definition to establish all of the CRUD routes for a resource
    • finalize the code to display the nested resource objects

  • 30. CRUD For an Object With a Relationship (Part 2)

    • implement the controller & view to create objects (of this second object type)
    • implement the controller & view to edit objects (of this second object type)
    • implement the controller & view to delete objects (of this second object type)

  • 31. Adding a Category and Many-To-Many Relationships

    • add support for a Category in your database
    • establish the relationships between the Category and Objects
    • implement the ability to specify Categories when creating or editing Objects

  • 32. Displaying a Category's Objects

    • implement admin CRUD pages for your new Category
    • add a page to display your Categories and their associated Objects
    • implement a way to access those new Category pages

  • 33. Searching For Objects

    • design & add a search form
    • create a new search route and controller action to handle search submissions via the new form
    • add a new page to display the search results

  • 34. Registering New Users

    • check out Laravel's built-in User functionality
    • create a User Registration page
    • use built-in actions to create new user via the Registration page
    • alter your application's homepage

  • 35. Adding User Authentication

    • add a new Login page for users to sign in
    • add user action links to the header to allow users to view their authentication status, and sign in and out
    • learn how to add a custom attribute to a model

  • 36. Add User Password Resets

    • configure your app to send emails
    • add user password reset functionality

  • 37. Restricting User Access & Adding a Basic Profile Page

    • establish connections between users and objects in the database
    • establish those connections in the models
    • change the retrieval of objects so only the active user's objects are shown in their index page
    • associate newly-created objects with the active user
    • restrict the user to editing their own objects

  • 38. Adding User Roles & Admin Users

    • add user roles
    • add the ability to create admin users & check if the active user is an admin

  • 39. Creating an Admin Interface – Part 1

    • create an admin-only section of your app
    • move certain pages to a new admin section
    • restrict access to the admin section only to admin users

  • 40. Creating an Admin Interface – Part 2

    • create a set of admin pages for managing users
    • migrate other administrative pages to the admin-only section of your app
    • create a new layout for the admin-only section

Module 5Your Launch