Common Laravel PHP Developer Interview Preparation Guide

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We can install the Laravel in following ways.

☛ Laravel Installer
☛ Composer Create-Project

☛ Laravel is a open-source PHP framework developed by Taylor Otwell used for Developing the websites.
☛ Laravel helps you create applications using simple, expressive syntax.

☛ Laravel is one of the most popular PHP frameworks used for Web Development.
☛ This framework is with expressive, elegant syntax.
☛ It is based on model–view–controller (MVC) architectural pattern.

Laravel Elixir provides a clean, fluent API for defining basic Gulp tasks for your Laravel application. Elixir supports common CSS and JavaScript preprocessors like Sass and Webpack. Using method chaining, Elixir allows you to fluently define your asset pipeline.

An event is an action or occurrence recognized by a program that may be handled by the program or code. Laravel events provides a simple observer implementation,that allowing you to subscribe and listen for various events/actions that occur in your application.

All Event classes are generally stored in the app/Events directory, while their listeners are stored in app/Listeners of your application.

Laravel Service Container is used to perform dependency injection, wherein the dependencies of a class is injected via constructor or other method.

LAMP is an open-source solution stack that contains everything you need to create a complete, stand-alone platform for your web application—Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP. This question is a good opportunity for your prospective programmer to detail any experience they have taking a web project from conception to completion.

$users = DB::select('select * from users where city_id = ?', 10);

if(!empty($users)){
foreach($users as $user){
}
}

After installing Laravel, you may need to configure some permissions. Directories within the storage and the bootstrap/cache directories should be writable by your web server or Laravel will not run. If you are using the Homestead virtual machine, these permissions should already be set.

☛ Bundles: These are small functionality which you may download to add to your web application.
☛ Reverse Routing: This allows you to change your routes and application will update all of the relevant links as per this link.
☛ IoC container: It gives you Control gives you a method for generating new objects and optionally instantiating and referencing singletons.

Laravel support 7 types of table relationships, they are

☛ One To One
☛ One To Many
☛ One To Many (Inverse)
☛ Many To Many
☛ Has Many Through
☛ Polymorphic Relations
☛ Many To Many Polymorphic Relations

Laravel Service providers are used for all Laravel applications including Laravel core service applications.
Also, most of the service container bindings are registered inside service providers.

Laravel’s database query builder provides a suitable, easy interface to creating and organization database queries. It can be used to achieve most database operations in our application and works on all supported database systems. The Laravel query planner uses PDO restriction necessary to keep our application against SQL injection attacks.

Migrations are like version control for your database, allowing your team to easily modify and share the application's database schema. Migrations are typically paired with Laravel's schema builder to easily build your application's database schema. If you have ever had to tell a teammate to manually add a column to their local database schema, you've faced the problem that database migrations solve.
Laravel includes a simple method of seeding your database with test data using seed classes. All seed classes are stored in the database/seeds directory. Seed classes may have any name you wish, but probably should follow some sensible convention, such as UsersTableSeeder, etc. By default, a DatabaseSeeder class is defined for you. From this class, you may use the call method to run other seed classes, allowing you to control the seeding order.

You can create a package in laravel using the following steps:
☛ 1. Package folder and name
☛ 2. Composer.json file for the package
☛ 3. Loading package via main composer.json and PSR-4
☛ 4. Creating a Service Provider
☛ 5. Create a Controller for your package
☛ 6. Create our Routes.php file

Laravel 5.5 is the latest version of Laravel. Here are steps to install and configure laravel 5.5

Currently Laravel supports four major databases, they are :-

☛ MySQL
☛ Postgres
☛ SQLite
☛ SQL Server

Here are some few features:

☛ Bundles
☛ Query Builder
☛ Reverse Routing
☛ IOC Container feature
☛ Database Seeding
☛ Automatic pagination

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Yes, Its provides.

The Eloquent ORM included with Laravel provides a beautiful, simple ActiveRecord implementation for working with your database. Each database table has a corresponding "Model" which is used to interact with that table. Models allow you to query for data in your tables, as well as insert new records into the table.

DB::insert('insert into users (id, name, city_id) values (?, ?)', [1, 'Web technology',10]);

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