This class will be a Friday afternoon 7th Nov.
This is an intro to the Laravel framework, from a very practical point of view - instead of going through Laravel features topic by topic, we will just create our first small project of viewing and managing the blog, learning those Laravel features along the way.
Take aways:
In this workshop, I intentionally skip some of the deeper theories and focus on the practical skills - delivering the actual working project.
I will use PHPStorms Junie PHP AI agent to help along the way, using AI rules/guidelines from Laravel Boost.
Course Material:
We will be using the terrific Laravel Daily intro course Laravel 12 from Scratch from Povilas Korop and his Laravel Daily site. Buy a subscription (worth every penny), and get his newsletter.
(I used to use the Laravel Chirper starter course but I find Povilas's one is better)
Ideal audience & Prerequisites:
To start with this course, I assume you already work with PHP, also have HTML and CSS basics.
You will have some familiarity with the command line.
Install PHP and required libraries to your development machine using Laravel Herd.
Other very useful material for self directed learning:
I would also suggest the following course to learn Laravel.
https://laracasts.com/series/laravel-from-scratch-2026
Along with a Using AI with Laravel introduction.
https://laracasts.com/series/leveraging-ai-for-laravel-development
A designed learning path of everything web related for Laravel. This is a great resource for total newbies
https://laracasts.com/path
I also hold my PHP/Laravel user group over lunches via Zoom on the first Wed of each month.
https://www.meetup.com/
You are welcome to come ask questions there too.
Feel free to reach out to me for any help. lee@codejourneymen.com
Presenter:
Lee Walker is a Principal Engineer with Code Journeymen, a seasoned software developer over many technologies, including Laravel & Drupal.
