How to set up a Laravel environment?

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Laravel is an open-source web application framework built on PHP that offers tools for creating robust, powerful applications. It was developed and maintained by Taylor Otwell as an attempt to provide a more advanced alternative to the CodeIgniter framework. Its architectural patterns are majorly based on Symfony. It provides a structure that makes it easier to build and prepare for huge projects. One of the most secure platforms with a PHP foundation is this one. It offers built-in user authorization capabilities like login, registration, and forgotten password assistance.

You will discover in this post how to set up a full Laravel development environment on your local server, which you can later upload to a live production environment.

  1. Install composer on Windows:

            Follow the following link for composer installation steps click here. 

2. Check the server requirement for the setup: 

  • PHP >= 7.4 
  • BCMath PHP Extension 
  • Ctype PHP Extension 
  • Fileinfo PHP extension 
  • JSON PHP Extension 
  • Mbstring PHP Extension 
  • OpenSSL PHP Extension 
  • PDO PHP Extension 
  • Tokenizer PHP Extension 
  • XML PHP Extension.

3.  Installing Laravel:

      Type the following command in your command prompt window:  

  • composer global require “laravel/installer”. 
  • composer create-project –prefer-dist laravel/laravel Project_name: this command will install Laravel and other dependencies with it and also generate the ANSI key. 

4. Create Database for Project:  

  • Go to phpMyAdmin click on create a new tab. 
  • Name the database. 
  • Press the create button. 

5. Update .Env file:  

APP_NAME=Laravel 

APP_ENV=local 

APP_KEY=base64:TJ9Sob7KFPhL5XkqT+TyQux3x7UbW08QLb0xtirLWSs= 

APP_DEBUG=true 

APP_URL=http://127.0.0.1:8000 

LOG_CHANNEL=stack 

LOG_LEVEL=debug 

DB_CONNECTION=mysql 

DB_HOST=127.0.0.1 

DB_PORT=3306 

DB_DATABASE=first-laravel 

DB_USERNAME=root 

DB_PASSWORD= 

6. Migrate database: 

Create tables in the database for Laravel access, also helps in database version control following are the commands for migration. 

  • PHP artisan make migration create_databse_table: this command is used to create the DB migration file in your ‘database/migration’ folder. 
  • PHP artisan migrate: used to run the pending migration changes to the database.

7. Start development server:

PHP artisan serve: this command starts your development server.

8) Go to the IP URL that you see on your CMD screen. 

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