[BenBradleySmith]

https://laracasts.com is a website run by Jeffrey Way formerly head of web development at TutsPlus and a brilliant teacher. He has a number of lessons available for free at https://laracasts.com/tags/free including a series of lessons taking you through most of the basics (https://laracasts.com/series/laravel-from-scratch/episodes/1).

It's only $9 a month which imo is great value. I'd take a look through the free lessons and if you like what you see sign up for a month or 2 and start building.

In addition to this Dayle Rees has an excellent book which can be found at https://leanpub.com/codebright which takes you through all the basic stuff and more. I personally prefer Laracasts as I am more video inclined and Jeffrey is an incredible teacher but they are both great resources.

[noir_lord]

Second laracasts, it pretty much sets the bar imo for content of that type, it would be worth 3 times the price (but no one tells him).

On top of which Jeffrey is just an all round nice guy (he does a bunch for the PHP community as well as some nice open source packages).