Building a Laravel Blog
Easy and powerful.
What We'll Build
- Display blog posts
- Admin dashboard to manage posts
- User auth and registration
Database GUI
View data quickly and easily.
- All: Navicat
- Mac: Sequel Pro
- Windows: HeidiSQL
- Linux: SQuirreL SQL
Setup
- PHP built-in server
- SQLite
- Start and view our app
Database Migrations
users
- name
- avatar
- username
- password
- role
posts
- user_id
- title
- slug
- image
- content
- status
- published_at
Model Factories
Create sample data quickly.
Seeding Our Database
Fill our database with sample data.
Routing Our App
Top down overview.
- Home Page
- Single Page
- Contact Page
Assets
CSS and JS for our application.
- Using gulp and Laravel Elixir
- Using Sass
- Using jQuery
- Using Bootstrap
Styling the Site
Styling Post Components
Blade Layouts
Simple and extendable views.
Contact Page
- Showing a Form
- Processing a form
- Sending an email
Authentication
- Built-in Laravel authentication
- Creating login/register views
Profile Pages
- View a user profile
- Let a user edit their own profile
Admin Dashboard
- Only admins can access
- CRUD posts
- New Dashboard namespace
Dashboard Routes
- Home page
- Posts resource controller
List All Posts
Create a Post
Edit a Post
Delete a Post
Authenticating the Dashboard
Only admins can access.
Dashboard Links
Only admins can see.