Top 10 Laravel Interview Questions And Answers

What is Laravel?

• Laravel is a PHP framework used to develop web applications. 
• Laravel is a framework with elegant and expressive syntax.
• Laravel is based on MVC design pattern
• It is created by Taylor Otwell.
• It helps in creating wonderful web applications easily and quickly

What are the main features of Laravel over other Frameworks?

• Modularity
• Authentication
• Application Logic
• Cache
• Routing
• Automatic pagination
• Template Engine
• Database Query Builder
• Eloquent ORM  

What are the different artisan commands in Laravel?

• PHP artisan list
• PHP artisan help
• PHP artisan tinker
• PHP artisan make
• PHP artisan –version(Get Current version of Laravel)
• PHP artisan make model model_name
• PHP artisan make controller controller_name 

What happens when you type 'PHP artisan' command?

• It lists dozens of artisan commands

What is the template engine that Laravel will use?

• Blade template

What are active records?

• Active Record is an architectural pattern found in software engineering
• Active Records store memory object data in relational databases.
• Example:

  $product = new Product;
  $product->name = 'Windows Os';
  $product->save();

• In this example mapping the Product object to a row product table of database.

What are the different relations in Laravel?

• One To One
• One To Many
• One To Many (Inverse)
• Many To Many
• Has Many Through
• Polymorphic Relations
• Many To Many Polymorphic Relations 

What is Lumen?

• Lumen is a microframework developed by Laravel.
• It is used for creating API's only
• Lumen is one of the smallest framework and faster than Laravel
• Some of the configurations done in Laravel are predefined in Lumen.

What is a composer?

• Its a dependency manager used for installing dependencies of PHP applications.  
• Composer Install or update libraries.

What are the Laravel Events?

• An event is an incident or occurrence detected and handled by the program.
• Example:
  • A new user has registered.
  • A new comment is posted
  • User login/logout
  • A new product is added.