Database-backed CRUD application
Deliverable: A working application with authentication, role-based access, validated forms and file uploads, backed by a normalised MySQL schema with migrations.
Course
Full Stack PHP with Laravel
PHP taught the way it is actually written now — modern syntax, Laravel, MySQL and real deployment — for the enormous share of the web that still runs on it.
- Duration: 6 months
- Classroom · Online live
- Level: beginner to advanced
What you will be able to do
- Write modern PHP with types, composer packages and namespaces
- Build a Laravel application using routing, controllers, Eloquent and Blade
- Design a normalised MySQL schema and query it efficiently
- Implement authentication, authorisation and form validation
- Build and consume a REST API
- Deploy to a live server and configure it safely
Who this course is for
- Graduates, students and career changers in any discipline
- Freelancers building sites for small businesses
- WordPress users who want to build rather than configure
- No prior programming experience required
Syllabus
7 modules · 6 months
Module 1. Modern PHP
- Syntax, types and control flow
- Functions, arrays and string handling
- Classes, interfaces and namespaces
- Composer, autoloading and using a package
Module 2. Databases with MySQL
- Tables, keys and normalisation
- SELECT, joins and aggregation
- Indexes and why a query is slow
- Prepared statements, and never concatenating SQL
Module 3. Laravel foundations
- Routing, controllers and the request lifecycle
- Blade templating and layouts
- Eloquent models, relationships and migrations
- Form requests and validation
Module 4. Building a real application
- Authentication, roles and gates
- File uploads, storage and image handling
- Mail, notifications and queued jobs
- Pagination, search and filtering
Module 5. APIs and the front end
- Building a REST API with resources
- Tokens, sanctum and API authentication
- Consuming an API from JavaScript
- Tailwind CSS and a responsive interface
Module 6. Security and performance
- SQL injection, XSS and CSRF, and what Laravel does about each
- Password hashing and secure sessions
- Caching, eager loading and the N+1 problem
- Environment files and keeping secrets out of Git
Module 7. Deployment
- Shared hosting, VPS and what each costs
- Deploying a Laravel application properly
- Migrations, storage links and permissions in production
- Logs, errors and debugging a live site
Tools and technologies you will use
- PHP
- Laravel
- MySQL
- Composer
- Blade and Tailwind CSS
- Git and cPanel or a VPS
Projects you will build
REST API with token authentication
Deliverable: An API serving JSON with token authentication, documented endpoints and validation, consumed by a JavaScript front end you also build.
Deployed live site
Deliverable: One project deployed to a real host at a public URL, with environment configuration, database migrations run in production and a working error log.
Performance fix
Deliverable: A deliberately slow page profiled, the N+1 query identified and fixed, with before and after query counts recorded.
Where this course can take you
- PHP Developer
- Laravel Developer
- Full Stack Developer
- WordPress Developer
- Freelance Web Developer
Duration, modes and fees
- Duration
- 6 months
- Delivery modes
- Classroom · Online live
- Fees
- Share your details for the current fee
- Fees vary by batch and delivery mode. A shared hosting account for the deployment project can be arranged inexpensively — ask at enrolment.
Placement assistance
Every student gets placement assistance — that is what 100% placement assistance means. It is support for all, not a job for all. We do not promise a specific salary, a specific number of interviews, or placement at any named company, and you should be wary of anyone who does.
What is included
- A place in the monthly placement drive, held every third Saturday
- The readiness programme every second Saturday — mock interviews and preparation
- CV review against the specific roles you are targeting
- Portfolio review, so your project work is presented the way a reviewer will read it
- Access to the vacancy pool employers send directly to the Samyak network
- Guidance on which roles realistically fit your background and which do not
- A place in the next drive, with coaching, if you are not selected in this one
What is not included
- Any guarantee of a job, an interview, or a particular salary
- Placement at a named or partner company
- Applying to jobs on your behalf
- Support before you have completed the course and its project work
- Visa, relocation or overseas placement assistance
The market nobody talks about
Ask online and you will be told PHP is finished. Ask a Delhi web agency what their client sites run on and you will get a different answer.
Small business websites, e-commerce, custom WordPress work, agency projects — this is a large, continuous market, and it is one of the few where a competent freelancer can build an independent income without relocating or joining a product company. That is the honest case for this course.
Modern PHP, not the PHP of the jokes
The language deserved much of its old reputation. It does not deserve it now.
Types, namespaces, Composer, a mature framework with a proper ORM and a real migration system — Laravel code looks much closer to modern Rails or Django than to the mixed HTML-and-queries files that gave PHP its name. This course teaches that version and never the other one.
Security gets a module because PHP applications get attacked
SQL injection, XSS, CSRF — these are not theoretical for a public-facing PHP site.
Laravel defends against all three, but only if you use it as intended, and the common way to get breached is a developer who worked around the framework without knowing why the guard was there. The module covers each attack and exactly what the framework does about it, which is more useful than a list of rules to follow blindly.
Deploying is part of the job
One project has to be live on real hosting, not on your laptop.
Environment configuration, running migrations in production, storage permissions, reading an error log at two in the morning — a developer who cannot do these is permanently dependent on somebody who can, and for a freelancer that dependency is the difference between a business and a hobby.
Questions
Full Stack PHP with Laravel — frequently asked questions
Is PHP dead?
No, and the claim is repeated mostly by people who last saw PHP in 2010. A very large share of the web runs on it, WordPress alone is enormous, and Laravel is a genuinely modern framework. It is not the fashionable choice, but the freelance and small-business market in India is full of PHP work and that work pays.
How is this different from the MERN or MEAN courses?
Different ecosystem and different market. MERN and MEAN suit product companies and startups. PHP and Laravel suit agencies, freelance work and small business sites, which is a large and steady market especially for someone building their own client base. Neither is better; they lead to different kinds of work.
I already use WordPress. Is this useful?
Very. Most WordPress users configure themes and plugins without being able to build anything. This course takes you from that to writing your own applications, which changes what you can charge for and lets you build custom plugins and themes rather than hunting for one that nearly fits.
Will I learn to deploy, or only to build?
Deployment is a full module and one project is graded on being live. Shared hosting, a VPS, environment configuration, migrations in production and reading a real error log are all covered, because a developer who cannot deploy is dependent on somebody who can.
Enquire about Full Stack PHP with Laravel
Three details is all we need. A course advisor will call you back.
Related courses
- Full Stack Development
Front end, back end, databases and deployment taught as one connected system, ending with applications you have shipped to a public URL and can walk an interviewer through.
- Web Development
The foundation everything else sits on — semantic HTML, CSS layout and JavaScript — taught until you can build and deploy a responsive, accessible site without reaching for a framework.
- SQL and Databases
SQL taught against a database big enough that a bad query is noticeably slow, because toy datasets hide performance entirely and performance is half of what the job tests.
- MERN Stack Development
One language across the whole stack, taught as a connected system — including the judgement about when a document database is the wrong choice, which most MERN courses never raise.
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Talk to a course advisor
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