Tauseef FayyazA to Z
Glossary
Every concept in this sheet, plus the smaller terms it uses. Select a concept to open its card.
C
- Composer and autoloading
- Composer installs packages from Packagist and generates a PSR-4 autoloader that maps namespaces to folders.
E
- Eloquent models and relationships
- Eloquent is Laravel's Active Record ORM: each model maps to a table, and methods like
belongsToandhasManydefine relationships you can query and eager load.
G
- Git commits and branches
- Git records snapshots of your project as commits.
L
- Laravel service container
- Laravel builds your classes and resolves their constructor dependencies automatically.
M
- Modern PHP types, enums and readonly
- PHP 8 has typed properties, union types, backed enums,
readonlyproperties and classes,matchand constructor property promotion.
P
- PHP arrays and collections
- A PHP array is both an ordered list and a key-value map.
- PHP errors and exceptions
- Modern PHP throws exceptions for most failures, handled with try, catch and finally.
- Pull requests
- A pull request proposes merging a branch into main and shows the diff, CI results and review comments in one place.
T
- Terminal essentials
- A shell runs commands such as
cd,ls,cat,grepandcurl, and pipes (|) feed one command's output into the next. - The PHP request lifecycle
- Classic PHP is share-nothing: PHP-FPM boots the app for each request and throws all state away at the end.