In this tutorial, we’ll code a simple personal blog with Laravel. The Tutorial is Updated to Laravel 5.2 So , We’ll also cover Laravel’s built-in authentication, paginate mechanism, and named routes. We’ll elaborate some rapid development methods, which come with Laravel, such as creating route URLs. The following topics will be covered in this chapter:

  • Creating and migrating the posts database
  • Creating a posts model
  • Creating and migrating the authors database
  • Creating a members-only area
  • Saving a blog post
  • Assigning blog posts to users
  • Listing articles
  • Paginating the content