PHP syntax, Laravel's MVC framework, Eloquent ORM, authentication with Laravel Breeze, queues, and deploying to a VPS. The pragmatic path from PHP basics to a production Laravel app.
This is a text-first course that links out to the best supporting material on the internet instead of trying to replace it. The goal is to make this the best course on php you can find — even without producing a single minute of custom video.
This course is built by engineers who ship php systems for a living. It reflects how these tools actually behave in production — not how the documentation describes them.
Every day includes working code examples you can copy, run, and modify right now. The goal is understanding through doing, not passive reading.
Instead of re-explaining existing documentation, this course links to the definitive open-source implementations and the best reference material on php available.
Each day is designed to finish in about an hour of focused reading plus hands-on work. Do the whole course over a week of lunch breaks. No calendar commitment, no live classes.
Each day stands alone. Read them in order for the full picture, or jump straight to the day that answers the question you have today.
Variables, arrays, functions, OOP basics, type juggling pitfalls, Composer for dependency management, and why modern PHP (8.x) is a genuinely good language when used with proper tooling.
Laravel project structure, Artisan CLI, route definitions, controllers, Blade templates, form handling, validation, and the request lifecycle from HTTP to response.
Model definitions, migrations, relationships (hasMany, belongsTo, many-to-many), query builder, eager loading to prevent N+1 queries, and database seeding.
Laravel Breeze for scaffolded auth, custom middleware, Gates and Policies for authorization, queued jobs for background processing, and Redis-backed queues.
PHPUnit with Laravel, feature tests vs unit tests, test factories, deploying to a VPS with nginx+PHP-FPM, environment management, and zero-downtime deploys with Envoyer.
Instead of shooting our own videos, we link to the best deep-dives already on YouTube. Watch them alongside the course. All external, all free, all from builders who ship this stuff.
Complete Laravel walkthroughs covering MVC, routing, Eloquent, and deployment from scratch.
Relationships, eager loading, scopes, and advanced query builder patterns — the parts of Eloquent that make Laravel genuinely productive.
Setting up auth scaffolding with Laravel Breeze, customizing the auth flow, and adding role-based access with Gates and Policies.
Background job processing with Laravel queues, Redis drivers, failed job handling, and queue workers in production.
Configuring nginx + PHP-FPM, SSL with Let's Encrypt, environment variables, and zero-downtime deployment workflows.
The best way to deepen understanding is to read the canonical open-source implementations. Clone them, trace the code, understand how the concepts in this course get applied in production.
The official Laravel application skeleton. The starting point for every Laravel project — read the structure to understand how the framework organizes code.
Laravel framework source code. The best way to understand how Eloquent, the queue system, and the container work under the hood.
Laravel's minimal auth scaffolding package. Read the source to understand how it generates the authentication boilerplate.
Curated repository of Laravel tips, patterns, and real-world code examples from the most prolific Laravel education resource.
An enormous fraction of the web runs on PHP. WordPress, Magento, and legacy enterprise apps are PHP. This course gives you the fluency to work in those codebases.
Laravel is one of the most complete web frameworks in any language. This course gives you the fastest path to a production-ready full-stack PHP app.
PHP 8+ with Laravel is a credible, modern stack. This course gives you enough to evaluate it honestly against the stack you already know.
The 2-day in-person Precision AI Academy bootcamp covers PHP and Laravel development in depth — hands-on, with practitioners who build AI systems for a living. 5 U.S. cities. $1,490. 40 seats max. June–October 2026 (Thu–Fri).
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