Laravel Events and Listeners Tutorial for Beginners

Learn how Laravel events and listeners work — decouple your code, react to actions like order placement, and keep controllers clean.

As your app grows, a single action (like placing an order) often needs to trigger multiple side effects — sending an email, updating inventory, notifying an admin. Cramming all of that into one controller method gets messy fast. Laravel's Events and Listeners system solves this cleanly. What Are Events and Listeners? An Event represents something that happened (e.g., OrderShipped ) A Listener reacts to that event (e.g., SendShipmentEmail ) One event can have multiple listeners, and your controller doesn't need to know about any of them — it just fires the event. Step 1: Create an Event php artisan make:event OrderShipped namespace App\Events; use App\Models\Order; use Illuminate\Foundation\Events\Dispatchable; class OrderShipped { use Dispatchable; public function __construct(public Order $order) {} } Step 2: Create a Listener php artisan make:listener SendShipmentNotification --event...

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