Laravel: Ajax calls and modal boxes

Video tutorial for developers who are just starting with Laravel

by Richard Urban

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Personal note:
This tutorial has been created in March 2020 during a stay at home lockdown resulting from the corona virus pandemic

Part 1

Introduction. Describing the environment and setting the goal. We want to create a dashboard with three buttons, representing three servers from three different geographical locations. On a click, a modal window should pop up and display the error log from the selected server.

Video 2:00 min

Part 2

Making a Modal pop up to work with Bootstrap and jQuery. The second part of the Laravel tutorial shows how to create a route, a blade template and a modal window activated by jQuery. The interdependence between route » blade template » ajax (jQuery) » Controller is explained here.

Video 13:51 min

Part 3

More details of Ajax programming: how does it interact with a controller and how data obtained by ajax is passed back to HTML? The tutorial explains interdependence between route » blade template » ajax (jQuery) » Controller

Video 29:08 min

Part 4

How the Laravel Controller exchanges data from/to Ajax and from/to other servers. Decrypting data with Crypt helper. Laravel Request explained on an example. The tutorial explains interdependence between route » blade template » ajax (jQuery) » Controller » Crypt helper

Video 17:35 min