The book is a complete description of the Laravel 8 framework for rapid website development in PHP. A short introductory course for beginners is given, which describes the development of a simple educational website - an electronic bulletin board. The basics of website programming on Laravel are covered. The most complete description of Laravel tools is provided: models, controllers, templates, tools for processing user input, including validators, saving uploaded files, access control, event processing, sending emails and alerts, etc. The use of queues and deferred jobs is described. The built-in scheduler, caching, logging and site localization tools, and the artisan utility are considered. Additional libraries are described for processing BBCode tags and CAPTCHA, displaying graphic thumbnails, and authentication through social networks (in particular, VKontakte). The programming of REST web services, the implementation of broadcasting via the WebSocket protocol and the publication of a website are considered.