About Laravel

Laravel is a web application framework with expressive, elegant syntax. We believe development must be an enjoyable and creative experience to be truly fulfilling. Laravel takes the pain out of development by easing common tasks used in many web projects, such as:

• Simple, fast routing engine.
• Powerful dependency injection container.
• Multiple back-ends for session and cache storage.
• Expressive, intuitive database ORM.
• Database agnostic schema migrations.
• Robust background job processing.
• Real-time event broadcasting.

Laravel is accessible, powerful, and provides tools required for large, robust applications.

Learning Laravel

Laravel has the most extensive and thorough documentation and video tutorial library of all modern web application frameworks, making it a breeze to get started with the framework.

If you don't feel like reading, Laracasts can help. Laracasts contains over 1500 video tutorials on a range of topics including Laravel, modern PHP, unit testing, and JavaScript. Boost your skills by digging into our comprehensive video library.

Laravel Sponsors

We would like to extend our thanks to the following sponsors for funding Laravel development. If you are interested in becoming a sponsor, please visit the Laravel Patreon page.

Premium Partners

• Vehikl
• Tighten Co.
• Kirschbaum Development Group
• 64 Robots
• Cubet Techno Labs
• Cyber-Duck
• Many
• Webdock, Fast VPS Hosting
• DevSquad
• Curotec
• OP.GG
• WebReinvent
• Lendio

Contributing

Thank you for considering contributing to the Laravel framework! The contribution guide can be found in the Laravel documentation.

Code of Conduct

In order to ensure that the Laravel community is welcoming to all, please review and abide by the Code of Conduct.

Local Development Configuration

CAPTCHA Disable for Local Development

For local development convenience, this application includes an option to disable CAPTCHA verification. This feature should NEVER be enabled in production environments.

Configuration:

• Set DISABLE_CAPTCHA_LOCAL=true in your .env file
• Ensure APP_ENV=local in your environment
• When both conditions are met, CAPTCHA validation will be skipped

Security Note: ⚠️ IMPORTANT: This setting must be false or removed entirely in production environments. The application will automatically enforce CAPTCHA in non-local environments regardless of the setting.

Files Modified for Local CAPTCHA Disable:

• config/captcha.php - Added local disable configuration
• app/Http/Controllers/AuthController.php - Conditional CAPTCHA validation
• app/Http/Controllers/ContactController.php - Conditional CAPTCHA validation
• app/Http/Controllers/BlogSubscriptionController.php - Conditional CAPTCHA validation
• app/Http/Controllers/ProfilePageController.php - Conditional CAPTCHA validation
• Login/forgot password forms - Conditional CAPTCHA display

Security Vulnerabilities

If you discover a security vulnerability within Laravel, please send an e-mail to Taylor Otwell via taylor@laravel.com. All security vulnerabilities will be promptly addressed.

License

The Laravel framework is open-sourced software licensed under the MIT license.