---
title: "Laravel: Celebrating 12 Years of Powering PHP Development"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/laravel-celebrating-12-years-of-powering-php-development-zlkgnzxw1
source_url: https://www.codemotion.com/magazine/languages/laravel-best-practices/
type: article
source: "Codemotion"
published: 2023-06-01T07:24:26.802Z
updated: 2023-07-20T14:10:56.027Z
tags: ["testing", "community", "database", "authentication", "php", "laravel", "symfony", "tdd", "ab-testing"]
reading_time: 8
upvotes: 20
comments: 3
language: en
---

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# 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: <https://www.codemotion.com/magazine/languages/laravel-best-practices/>

## 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

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