While Learning PHP I moved ahead and learned it's framework side by side to ease out the use of old codes and simplify the work like Django does using python. I've worked on django also so it was easy for me to understand another MVC and create simplistic websites as such maybe I'll create another one.(One last with laravel)
make sure you setup your .env file with the database name and password and make database table for the task also don't forget to run php artisan make:igration and run php artisan serve to run the application.
Django vs Laravel ?? which one's better ....still a mystery because both works great on there way.