Laravel Practice Exercises: Essential Techniques for Mastering the Framework

Here’s a short practice exercise to help you practice using Laravel:

1. Create a new Laravel project using Composer, as described in the tutorial.
2. Create a new database and add your credentials to the .env file.
3. Create a new database migration using the “make:migration” Artisan command. For example, to create a new migration to create a “users” table, run the following command:goCopy codephp artisan make:migration create_users_table --create=users
4. In the new migration file that was created in the database/migrations directory, define the structure of the “users” table using the Laravel schema builder. For example, to add a “name” and “email” column to the “users” table, you can add the following code to the up() method:scssCopy codeSchema::create('users', function (Blueprint $table) { $table->id(); $table->string('name'); $table->string('email')->unique(); $table->timestamp('email_verified_at')->nullable(); $table->string('password'); $table->rememberToken(); $table->timestamps(); });
5. Run the migration using the “migrate” Artisan command:Copy codephp artisan migrate
6. Create a new model for the “users” table using the “make:model” Artisan command. For example, to create a new model called “User”, run the following command:goCopy codephp artisan make:model User
7. Add a new route to the routes/web.php file that displays a list of all the users in the “users” table. For example, you can add the following code:sqlCopy codeRoute::get('/users', function () { $users = \App\Models\User::all(); return view('users', ['users' => $users]); });
8. Create a new view called “users.blade.php” in the resources/views directory. In this view, display the list of users using a foreach loop. For example, you can add the following code:phpCopy code@foreach ($users as $user) <p>{{ $user->name }} - {{ $user->email }}</p> @endforeach
9. Open your web browser and navigate to http://localhost:8000/users to see the list of users.

By completing this exercise, you should now have a basic understanding of how to create database migrations, models, routes, and views in Laravel, and how to display data from a database in a web page. You can continue to practice using Laravel by building more advanced web applications and exploring its many features and capabilities.