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Hi I'm Jonathan a teacher
here at Treehouse.

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In this course I'll introduce you to
Laravel an open source PHP framework that

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speeds up development and lets you
produce cutting edge web applications.

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Laravel was developed by
Taylor Otwell in 2015, and

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is one of the most popular PHP
frameworks using the MVC design pattern.

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MVC, short for model view and
controller is a programming pattern

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that helps you organize an application's
logic to handle everyday tasks,

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see the teach notes below for
more information about the MVC pattern.

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Why would we want to use Laravel anyway?

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A framework like Laravel provides helpful
tools that simplified development tasks

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like security, working with databases,
templating, error handling and a lot more.

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In fact, Laravel can be extended to help
you create amazing web applications.

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For example, you can use Laravel to
create an E-Commerce website with

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out of the box authentication,
full text search and many other features.

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In this course,
we'll build a basic Laravel application

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using the MVC pattern
we've been discussing.

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This app based on
the Treehouse course library

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will implement many of
Laravel's popular features.

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You'll learn to work
with database records,

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integrate data with HTML templates and
how to use environment variables.

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You'll also learn how to
create different routes, so

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that different URL requests
produce different HTML pages.

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As you progress through this course,
you'll notice how Laravel simplifies web

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development by making everyday
tasks such as authentication,

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routing sessions and
caching much easier to implement.

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In short, Laravel aims to make
the development process a pleasing one for

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the developer without sacrificing
application functionality.

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By the end of this course, you'll know how
to build your very own Laravel application

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using routes, controllers, views, models,
seeders, and database migrations.

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In the next few videos, I'll walk you
through the process of installing Laravel

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connecting to database and
setting up a Laravel project.

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See you there.