--- title: Laravel: Celebrating 12 Years of Powering PHP Development description: Laravel is an open-source PHP framework that has gained immense popularity among developers worldwide. It was created by Taylor Otwell, a software developer... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/laravel-celebrating-12-years-of-powering-php-development-zlkgnzxw1 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Laravel: Celebrating 12 Years of Powering PHP Development | daily.dev og:description: Laravel is an open-source PHP framework that has gained immense popularity among developers worldwide. It was created by Taylor Otwell, a software developer... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/laravel-celebrating-12-years-of-powering-php-development-zlkgnzxw1 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/zlkGNzxW1.png og:image:alt: Laravel: Celebrating 12 Years of Powering PHP Development og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Laravel: Celebrating 12 Years of Powering PHP Development **[Codemotion](https://daily.dev/sources/codemotion)** · 8 min read · 20 upvotes · 3 comments ## Summary Laravel is an open-source PHP framework that has gained immense popularity among developers worldwide. It was created by Taylor Otwell, a software developer from the United States, and was first released in June 2011. Laravel empowers developers to quickly and securely implement user management functionality without needing to build it from scratch. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@bobbyiliev** · 3 upvotes > Very cool! Laravel is awesome! **@kyoukhana** · 3 upvotes > I have used Laravel in the past. To be honest its a really complete framework. **@rasel2208** · 2 upvotes > I love laravel framework --- Tags: [#testing](https://daily.dev/tags/testing), [#community](https://daily.dev/tags/community), [#database](https://daily.dev/tags/database), [#authentication](https://daily.dev/tags/authentication), [#php](https://daily.dev/tags/php), [#laravel](https://daily.dev/tags/laravel), [#symfony](https://daily.dev/tags/symfony), [#tdd](https://daily.dev/tags/tdd), [#ab-testing](https://daily.dev/tags/ab-testing) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/laravel-celebrating-12-years-of-powering-php-development-zlkgnzxw1) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Laravel: Celebrating 12 Years of Powering PHP Development","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/laravel-celebrating-12-years-of-powering-php-development-zlkgnzxw1","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/laravel-celebrating-12-years-of-powering-php-development-zlkgnzxw1"},"datePublished":"2023-06-01T07:24:26.802Z","dateModified":"2023-07-20T14:10:56.027Z","description":"Laravel is an open-source PHP framework that has gained immense popularity among developers worldwide. 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