Laravel is the most popular PHP framework, known for its elegant syntax and developer-friendly tooling. It provides routing, ORM (Eloquent), templating (Blade), authentication, queues, events, and much more out of the box.
Laravel follows the MVC pattern and embraces convention over configuration.
# Install Laravel via Composer
composer create-project laravel/laravel my-app
cd my-app
php artisan serve
# Key Artisan commands
php artisan make:model Post -mrc # model, migration, resource controller
php artisan migrate # run migrations
php artisan db:seed # seed database
php artisan route:list # list all routes
php artisan tinker # interactive REPLMore in Laravel