Getting Oriented with Laravel

This lesson orients students to Laravel as a practical framework for building modern PHP web applications. It explains what Laravel provides out of the box, how a Laravel project is organized, and how requests move through routes, controllers, views, models, and configuration.

By the end, students should be able to describe Laravel’s role in a PHP application, recognize the major folders in a Laravel codebase, understand the purpose of Artisan and Composer, and run a new Laravel project locally with confidence.