DB-2025-Lab1.md

Homework Lab: Building a Laravel CRUD Application

Objective

In this lab, you will create a Laravel application that includes the following:

• A Model with an associated Migration
• A Factory to generate dummy data
• A View to display data
• A Controller and Route to fetch and render data from the database

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Tasks

1. Create the Model and Migration

• Generate a Post model with a migration. php artisan make:model Post -m
• Define the table structure in the migration file.
• Run the migration to create the posts table.

2. Create a Factory for Dummy Data

• Generate a factory for the Post model.
• Define the structure for dummy data.
• Call Seeder to generate sample data.

3. Create a View to Render Data ( Passing data from route)

• Create a Blade template for displaying posts.
• Use Blade syntax to loop through and display the posts.

4. Create a Controller and Route to Render Data ( After Next Session)

• Generate a PostController.
• Define an index method to fetch and pass posts to the view.
• Create a route that maps to the index method.