你可以在 Laravel 繁體中文網站 上看到這份完整的中文文件，以及更多相關、深入與延伸的學習資料。若你使用 Mac 電腦，也安裝了 Dash 這個好用的文件管理軟體，還可以前往 這裏 下載可匯入的格式，可以閱讀並方便查詢。
Laravel 是一套富有表達性且具有簡潔語法的 PHP 網頁應用程式框架，提供了驗證(authentication)、路由(routing)、sessions、快取(caching) 等開發過程中經常用到的工具或功能，竭取了各框架的優點集中到 Laravel 中，這些框架甚至是基於 Ruby on Rails、ASP.NET MVC 和 Sinatra 等開發語言或工具。
Laravel 是易於理解且強大的，它提供了強大的工具來開發大型、穩健的應用程式。傑出的 IoC、資料庫遷移工具和緊密集成的單元測試，這些工具賦予你構建任何應用程式的能力。
PHP 與關聯式資料庫的基礎知識還是必要的，當然硬著頭皮從框架應用開始學習也是一種模式，找一本基礎知識的書籍快速閱讀後擺在手邊參考也很好。有一份看起來不是翻譯得很完整的 PHP之道（PHP the right way） 可以試著讀一讀。
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