Basically all you need to know is very well documented at the official documentation , Taylor Otwell made a huge effort doing the documentation to make the framwork more comprenhensible. The basic concepts are: Routing Controllers Views Blade templating Requests and Responses Models & Migrations After that keep an eye to in the Middleware concept, also there’s a plenty of built-in services as: Auth, Pagination, Encryption, etc… check them out. Something you’ll love is Eloquent ORM , it simplifies the interaction with the database. Laravel community has their own site and that is laracasts you could get help there too.

What are the main concepts in the laravel framework?

sajeevan

Basically all you need to know is very well documented at the official documentation, Taylor Otwell made a huge effort doing the documentation to make the framwork more comprenhensible.

The basic concepts are:

After that keep an eye to in the Middleware concept, also there’s a plenty of built-in services as: Auth, Pagination, Encryption, etc… check them out.

Something you’ll love is Eloquent ORM, it simplifies the interaction with the database.

Laravel community has their own site and that is laracasts you could get help there too.

sajeevan

One of the most important features of Laravel is the Service Container (you’ll hear about it also as the IoC Container) and the way it’s used to register Services, provide Dependency Injection, and be a Registry for your application.

Middleware are one of my favorite feature of laravel: they are like filters executing before and after the requests, in which you can ‘prepare’ some data to be handled in the request or ‘fix up’ something after the request has been processed

Another peculiar feature are the Facades: (non to be confused with the homonym design pattern ) you’ll see them everywhere, and you’ll learn how they provide easy access to the service container keeping your code succint,readable and testable in the same time

sajeevan

Key fundamentals includes.

Understanding OOP (object oriented programming) in PHP5 which is now robust. Laravel was built on OO principles.
You must understand the concept of MVC.
Ioc (Inversion Of Control) and DI (Dependency Injection)

Of course you should know how to write PHP in OOP understanding it is not enough, HTML/HTML5 and a little understanding of SQL.

When you get into Laravel you will learn other things.

You can start even if you don’t have the knowledge of OOP the documentation is good but then you will struggle with some key basic concept.

sajeevan

Fundamental components of Laravel are :-
1. Symfony (A php Framework)
2. Composer (A Dependency Manager)
3. Eloquent ORM (Object Relational Mapping) This build on Laravel and can use outside the laravel.
4. Blend (A tempting Engine)→ a) Makes Developer life easy b) Build on Laravel but can not use outside the laravel.