Getting Started - Hello World! in Laravel 5.3

To get started with basic page running in Laravel, we will open file called web.php which is inside routes folder (i.e. inside ’laravel_project_folder/routes/web.php’). Delete existing content in the file and add following code to get started with. By using the above code, whenever a get request for base directory is passed to the server, it will return “Hello World!” as an output. To see output we need to get back to terminal and pass the following command in the directory where the Laravel project is present....

January 20, 2017 · Kunal Gautam

Laravel 5.3 Understanding File and Directory Structure

Laravel follows the model–view–controller (MVC) architectural pattern. Hence the directory structure can be confusing for a person who is not much seen into MVCs. But It is very easy to understand. I’ll cover the basic directories which are mostly used. If anything you don’t understand, I’d suggest to progress further, it will get clear by developing on the platform. So Let Get started with Directory Structure. There are many files in your root of Application director....

January 17, 2017 · Kunal Gautam

Laravel 5.3 Installation

Laravel need following perquisites to get working: PHP >= 5.6.4 OpenSSL PHP Extension PDO PHP Extension Mbstring PHP Extension Tokenizer PHP Extension XML PHP Extension I will be using PHP 7.0 along with mysql for my database requirement. There may be different way to install Laravel project, but as per official documentation, it utilize Composer to manage its dependencies. To install Composer one can follow instructions at their official website which can be found here....

January 17, 2017 · Kunal Gautam

Random Thoughts

Today will be different. It has to be. I will smile, and it will be believable. My smile will say, "I'm fine, thank you. Yes, I feel much better." I will no longer be the sad guy. I will start fresh, be someone new. It's the only way I'll make it through. I thought that I could smile and nod my way through it, pretend like it would all be okay....

June 10, 2016 · Kunal Gautam

My first flight Journey | A trip I'll remember 😃

It’s going to be long time that I’ve written nothing on my blog. Recently my friend Anurag Upadhaya had his first flight experience. Hence I thought I should also share my first flight experience. In India, it is very hard to get a confirmed ticket on train towards Bihar/U.P. route during summer vacation. Recently I had to attend marriage ceremony of my Brother-in-law from Samastipur, Bihar. Since I was unable to get confirmed ticket, I booked flight ticket from Pune to Patna (via Delhi)....

June 21, 2015 · Kunal Gautam

Short Moral Story - 1

Long time ago, in a village far, very far away in the foothills of The Great Himalaya, there lived an old wise man. The man was famous for his wisdom. People not only from his village, but also from nearby village come to get wisdom and blessings from this great old man. In the village, there were few young mind who were suspicious of his visionary wisdom, made a plan to prove wise old man wrong....

July 13, 2014 · Kunal Gautam

Finally! Got Broadband.

With advancement of technology, it is really hard to get in pace with older infrastructure. While whole Internet is shifting towards HTML5, it is really pain to use dialup/slow/Limited internet connection to browse a page. Even a simple Gmail’s page take plenty of time to get loaded. So there started my problem. Due to slow Internet connectivity a 1 minute work took around 10 minute. I was in search of a fixed/wired Broadband connection which provide unlimited connectivity or faster connectivity atleast....

November 25, 2013 · Kunal Gautam

True Love Story

Once there was a guy and a girl in a good relationship since 5 years. The guy was sincere and girl was cute. Both of them were happy with their relationship. One day girl came to meet the guy and showed him her new pin eye lenses. The guy fainted immediately after he saw those lenses. Girl got scared of that scene and shouted at her loud for help and managed to get his boyfriend to the hospital....

December 27, 2012 · Kunal Gautam

A Song Dedicated For You, My Dear Alcoholic Drinks!

Recently I was listening to this awesome song “Sugar Rush” By A-Teens. And while thinking on it found that this song can be funnily dedicated to all alcoholic drinks 😛. Here is lyrics for the song : I get a high whenever you’re around Sweeping from head to my toes I, I gotta get my feet back on the ground ‘Cause you make me go Out of my way (out of my way)...

January 17, 2012 · Kunal Gautam

Freelancing - It Doesn't come for Free

Recently I was at Startup Saturday Pune, for attending event on Attracting Traffic to Website. One question which I seen people asked while keynotes and after event networking was “Why different people/firm charge differently for same product or services” There may be someone who may charge 500 bucks for a service/product. But there may be someone who will charge you 5000 bucks for the same! Same question is sometimes asked to freelancers ( My Dear clients sorry if it hurts )....

January 16, 2012 · Kunal Gautam