Returns plain text

public function contact() {
        return 'Under Construction';
}

Returns HTML

public function about() {
        return '<h1>About the site</h1>details...';
}

Returns view located at

resources/views/pages/services.blade.php

public function services() {
        return view('pages/services');
}

ctrl + p

-> search

ext install laravel blade

-> install

laravel blade snippets

extension

Pass parameter to view using

with

method

public function about() {
        $param1 = 'this is a parameter of about us page';
        return view('pages/about')->with('title', $param1);
}

Content of the blade template

@extends('layouts.app')

@section('cntnt')
    <h3>abt us {{$title}}</h3>
@endsection

Makes controller for

Posts

php artisan make:controller PostsController

With the following basic content

<?php

namespace App\Http\Controllers;

use Illuminate\Http\Request;

class Postscontroller extends Controller
{
    //
}

Creates controller and empty methods in it (with appropriate comments)

php artisan make:controller PostsController --resource

The methods are:

index()

- Displays a list of the resource.

create()

- Shows the form for creating a new resource

store(Request $request)

- Stores a newly created resource in storage

show($id)

- Displays the specified resource

edit($id)

- Shows the form for editing the specified resource

update(Request $request, $id)

- Updates the specified resource in storage

destroy($id)

- Removes the specified resource from storage

Makes model called

Post

php artisan make:model Post

With the following basic content

<?php

namespace App;

use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;

class Post extends Model
{
    //
}

Creates

Post

model and also migrations to create table for the model

php artisan make:model Post -m

The migration file location is

database/migrations/2020_09_02_041219_create_posts_table.php

.env

file contains database config information that needs to be changed to use the database

DB_CONNECTION=mysql
DB_HOST=127.0.0.1
DB_PORT=3306
DB_DATABASE=lara4db
DB_USERNAME=root
DB_PASSWORD=

Schema::create('posts', function (Blueprint $table) {
    $table->id();
    $table->string('title');
    $table->mediumText('content');
    $table->timestamps();
});

$table->id()

- creates

bigint(20)

unsigned auto-increment field

$table->string('title')

- creates

varchar(255)

utf8mb4_unicode_ci field

$table->mediumText('content')

- creates

mediumtext

utf8mb4_unicode_ci field

$table->timestamps()

- creates

created_at

and

updated_at

timestamps

Shows all the routes that we have in our application

 php artisan route:list

Creates all 7 routes for the resource to cover CRUD functionality

Route::resource('posts', 'PostsController');

These routes are:

GET

at

posts

to list all the posts

POST

at

posts

to store new post

GET

at

posts/create

to show form for creating new post

GET

at

posts/{post}

to show the post

PUT

at

posts/{post}

to update the post

DELETE

at

posts/{post}

to delete the post

GET

at

posts/{post}/edit

to show edit form

We can order posts by

created_at

with

descending

order, to see the newly created posts at the top