Help a greybeard out - best way for a longtime vanilla PHP dev to get started with Laravel?

• Yii2

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  Yii 2: The Fast, Secure and Professional PHP Framework

  

For what it's worth I'd say start out with Yii2 or Symfony, once you get the idea of an MVC framework down and get the foundation sorted then moving to Laravel is easy. If you already know the language you won't have any issues at all.

• Symfony

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  The Symfony PHP framework

  

For what it's worth I'd say start out with Yii2 or Symfony, once you get the idea of an MVC framework down and get the foundation sorted then moving to Laravel is easy. If you already know the language you won't have any issues at all.

• InfluxDB

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• Laravel

  225 31,487 10.0 PHP

  The Laravel Framework.

  

As far how the artisan make:* commands work, at the most basic level, it copies a file from a 'stubs' directory within Laravel, and then replaces certain placeholder strings in that file with whatever you gave in the CLI args - https://github.com/laravel/framework/tree/8.x/src/Illuminate/Foundation/Console/stubs

• Laravel

  352 76,753 8.9 PHP

  Laravel is a web application framework with expressive, elegant syntax. We’ve already laid the foundation for your next big idea — freeing you to create without sweating the small things.

  

What I suggest is Laravel documentation https://laravel.com as a good way to start. Since you have been doing PHP, I believe you will get around so easily as it is easy to setup.

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