Building a Simple CRUD Application in Laravel: A Step-by-Step Guide with Code Examples

Laravel is a PHP framework that provides a lot of features and tools to build web applications quickly and easily. One of the most common operations in web applications is CRUD (Create, Read, Update, and Delete) operations. In this tutorial, we'll create a simple CRUD application in Laravel that performs all these operations.

First, we need to create a new Laravel project. You can use the following command to create a new project:

composer create-project --prefer-dist laravel/laravel crud-app        

Once the project is created, navigate to the project's directory and run the following command to create a new migration:

php artisan make:migration create_products_table --create=products        

This command will create a new migration file in the database/migrations directory. Open the migration file and modify it as follows:

use Illuminate\Database\Migrations\Migration
use Illuminate\Database\Schema\Blueprint;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Schema;

class CreateProductsTable extends Migration
{
    /**
     * Run the migrations.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function up()
    {
        Schema::create('products', function (Blueprint $table) {
            $table->id();
            $table->string('name');
            $table->text('description')->nullable();
            $table->integer('price');
            $table->timestamps();
        });
    }

    /**
     * Reverse the migrations.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function down()
    {
        Schema::dropIfExists('products');
    }
};        

This migration will create a new products table in the database with columns for id, name, description, price, and timestamps.

Next, run the migration using the following command:

php artisan migrate        

This command will create the products table in the database.

Now, let's create a model for the Product table. Run the following command to create a new model:

php artisan make:model Product        

This command will create a new Product model in the app directory.

Next, let's create a controller for the CRUD operations. Run the following command to create a new controller:

php artisan make:controller ProductController --resource --model=Product        

This command will create a new ProductController in the app/Http/Controllers directory. The --resource option tells Laravel to generate a controller with all the CRUD methods, and the --model option tells Laravel to associate the controller with the Product model.

Now, open the ProductController and modify the methods as follows:

use App\Product
use Illuminate\Http\Request;

class ProductController extends Controller
{
    public function index()
    {
        $products = Product::all();

        return view('products.index', ['products' => $products]);
    }

    public function create()
    {
        return view('products.create');
    }

    public function store(Request $request)
    {
        $product = new Product;

        $product->name = $request->name;
        $product->description = $request->description;
        $product->price = $request->price;

        $product->save();

        return redirect()->route('products.index');
    }

    public function show(Product $product)
    {
        return view('products.show', ['product' => $product]);
    }

    public function edit(Product $product)
    {
        return view('products.edit', ['product' => $product]);
    }

    public function update(Request $request, Product $product)
    {
        $product->name;        

In conclusion, Laravel is a powerful PHP framework that makes it easy to build web applications with robust features and functionalities. If you're looking to build a web application using Laravel, Prakash Software Solutions Pvt Ltd can help.

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