In this article, I am going to create a Blog project using Laravel 8 step by step

Complete Laravel blog project step by step Part1

Laravel Blog Application from scratch

#Technologies

• PHP 7.4
• Laravel 8.x (PHP ≥ 7.3)
• Bootstrap 4.x
• Jquery 3.x
• PhpmyAdmin 4.x

Frontend Features

• Home page with all latest posts
• Post Detail page with comment option
• Right sidebar in all pages with
• Search Option
• 3 Recent Post
• 3 popular post  (According to views)
• 3 recent comments (with post link)
• Create a setting for all those things
• Guest Posting(Only Approved User can Post)
• User Account Panel
• Update Profile
• Change Password
• Forget Password
• My Posts
• My Comment
• My Comments
• About Us Page
• Contact Us Page

 #Backend Feature

• Admin Login
• Manage Post Category
• Manage Posts
• Post Title dynamically
• Post description dynamically
• Category
• Tags
• Post-Thumbnail
• Post Image
• Manage Post comments (Approve or Disapprove)
• Settings
• Comment Auto approve or Not
• User Auto Active or Not
• Change Limit for recent posts, popular posts, recent comments

Let’s Start

• Before start, I assumed you have already installed composer and all the pre requisites
• Create a project using composer

composer create-project --prefer-dist laravel/laravel laravel-techblog

• Once install the project go to the project folder and open it with any code editor. here I am using  Visual Studio
• Run  php artisan serve

Now we will create HomeController and change the defult page

php artisan make:Controller HomeController

import HomeController in routes→web.php file

use App\Http\Controllers\HomeController;

set route for HomeController

Route::get("/",[HomeController::class,'index']);

Now we will create an index function, so we need to go Home controller and create a function index

 function index()
   {
       return view('home');
   }

• Now we have to create a home.blade.php file in a resources→views folder

In this step, we simply load the view file with the help of controller

• Now we will create models in laravel
• #Data base Connectivity
• connect with MySQL database
• ##Database Table or Model (Database Tables)
• User (Default Laravel Authentication System)
• -name
• -email
• -password
• – Category table
• -title
• -detail
• -image
• –Post table
• -user(belongsTo relation)
• -category (belongsTo relation)
• -title
• thumb image
• fill mage
• detail
• tags(command separated tags)
• –comments table
• -user (belongsTo relation)
• -post (belongsTo relation)
• -comment

Let’s start 

• open your PHPMyAdmin and create a database name blog

Link your database open .env file and configure as below

DB_CONNECTION=mysql
DB_HOST=127.0.0.1
DB_PORT=3306
DB_DATABASE=blog
DB_USERNAME=root
DB_PASSWORD=Password@123

Change according to your database name username and password

Then run the below command

php artisan migrate

OutPut

Migration table created successfully.
Migrating: 2014_10_12_000000_create_users_table
Migrated:  2014_10_12_000000_create_users_table (118.10ms)
Migrating: 2014_10_12_100000_create_password_resets_table
Migrated:  2014_10_12_100000_create_password_resets_table (69.99ms)
Migrating: 2019_08_19_000000_create_failed_jobs_table
Migrated:  2019_08_19_000000_create_failed_jobs_table (73.23ms)
Migrating: 2019_12_14_000001_create_personal_access_tokens_table
Migrated:  2019_12_14_000001_create_personal_access_tokens_table (117.59ms)

This command creates a table named users and table columns. and table columns already define in migration→

2014_10_12_000000_create_users_table.php

Now you can see your database has 5 tables 

Now we will create a Category model with the migration on the below command

php artisan make:model Category -m

-m flag will create migration

Once create the model you can see a table named 2021_10_15_090933_create_categories_table.php under the database→ migration→ and paste the below code.

 public function up()
   {
        Schema::create('categories', function (Blueprint $table) {
           $table->id();
           $table->string('title');
           $table->text('detail',300);
           $table->string('image');
           $table->timestamps();
       });
   }

Note:2021_10_15_090933 date-time will be charged as per your installation date time

php artisan migrate

Migrating: 2021_10_15_092124_create_categories_table
Migrated:  2021_10_15_092124_create_categories_table (66.59ms)

You can see categories table has been created with the columns which we had to define earlier

Note: if note required timestamp columns simply need to add code on the model

 protected $timestamp=false;

Model Name Category

<?php

namespace App\Models;

use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Factories\HasFactory;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;

class Category extends Model
{
   use HasFactory;
   protected $timestamp=false;
}
 

Now similarly we will do Post and Comment Model

php artisan make:model Post -m

Go to the migration folder and open the newly created post table and paste the below code

 public function up()
   {
       Schema::create('posts', function (Blueprint $table) {
          $table->id();
           $table->integer('cat_id');
           $table->string('title');
           $table->string('thumb');
           $table->string('full_img');
           $table->text('detail');
           $table->string('tags');
           $table->timestamps();
       });
   }
 

php artisan migrate

php artisan make:model Comment -m
Model created successfully.
Created Migration: 2021_10_15_093715_create_comments_table

Go to the migration folder and open the newly created comments table and paste the below code

public function up()
   {
       Schema::create('comments', function (Blueprint $table) {
           $table->id();
           $table->integer('user_id');
           $table->integer('post_id');
           $table->text('comment');
           $table->timestamps();
       });
   }

php artisan migrate

Part 1 finished. please wait for part2