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What is Laravel?

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Overview of Laravel features: Eloquent ORM, Blade templates, Artisan CLI, queues, and its rich ecosystem.

What is Laravel?

Laravel is the most popular PHP framework, built on the MVC pattern. It provides elegant syntax, powerful tools, and a huge ecosystem to build modern web applications.

Eloquent ORM for database interactions
Blade templating engine
Artisan CLI for code generation
Built-in authentication, queues, events, and caching
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composer create-project laravel/laravel my-app
cd my-app
php artisan serve   # http://localhost:8000

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Topic Quiz · 5 questions

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1. Who created Laravel?

💡 Laravel was created by Taylor Otwell and first released in 2011.

2. Which command starts the Laravel dev server?

💡 php artisan serve starts the built-in PHP development server on port 8000.

3. What does ORM stand for?

💡 ORM maps database rows to PHP objects.

4. Which template engine does Laravel use?

💡 Laravel uses the Blade templating engine.

5. Laravel follows which pattern?

💡 Laravel follows the Model-View-Controller architectural pattern.

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What is Laravel?

What is Laravel?

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