Beginner guide to install Laravel

Welcome to the Beginner Guide to Install Laravel on Your Operating System!

Are you eager to delve into web development with Laravel but feeling a bit overwhelmed by the installation process? Fear not! This guide is presented by ADMEC Multimedia specifically for learners like you who are beginner and need practical step by step guidance for installing Laravel.

In this comprehensive walkthrough, we’ll break down the installation process into simple, easy-to-follow steps, ensuring that you can set up Laravel on your operating system with confidence. This guide is mainly targeted on installation for windows operating system.

By the end of this guide, you’ll have Laravel up and running on your system, ready to embark on your journey towards building dynamic web applications with one of the most popular PHP frameworks out there.

Before we move forward with installation, let’s first dive in some necessary prerequisites.

Pre-requisites to Install Larvel

Here are a few prerequisites that you need a lot for install Laravel:

1. PHP: It is the most crucial language and should to be installed first. The recommended version for PHP is 7.3 or higher than it. You can consider adding other extensions like XML, OpenSSL, PDO, etc.
2. Composer: Next is Composer which sets the group for the installation of both Laravel and its dependencies. It is also a dependency manager for PHP, thus becoming necessary.
3. Web Server: Along with PHP and Composer, web servers play a crucial role in the installation of Laravel. You can try adding web servers like Apache for the applications going to the run under Laravel.
4. Database: How can we forget database? Do you know that Laravel can work with multiple database systems which not only include MySQL, SQLite but also MongoBG and other SQL Server? 
5. Node.js and NPM: Although not strictly required, Node.js and NPM (Node Package Manager) are often used for front-end development tasks like compiling assets and managing JavaScript dependencies in Laravel projects.

By ensuring you have these prerequisites installed and configured correctly, you’ll be all set to install and start using Laravel for your web development projects!

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Steps to Install Laravel on Windows

To install Laravel on Windows, first, we have to download the composer from the get composer website, as we’ve read above, it will help us to install Laravel. We should have PHP 7 or above to install the Laravel.

1. Install composer

Download the composer from it’s official website, and start the setup. It will ask you for the PHP path just shown in the below image:

Then press next and install the composer, after installing it successfully we can check the version of the composer in the command prompt by using this command:

Composer - v

It will show some information as shown in below attached graphic for reference:

With this step, we’ve got everything set to install the Laravel in your operating system. 

Follow the provided steps with good attention for right installation: 

2. To install the Laravel we should use at least PHP 7.3 version

We can check the version of PHP in command prompt of windows by using:

 PHP –v command

3. Install Laravel

After downloading the composer and installing it in the windows, we have to start the installation process of the Laravel. We can follow the below-mentioned commands to install laravel:

Composer create-project –prefer –dist laravel/laravel Project_Name

This command will install Laravel and also make a new project with the given name of the project.

4. Create the PHP database in MySQL

After installing Laravel, we have to create the database in the PHP server, just go to the MySQL server, create a new database.

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

After creating the database for Laravel, we will create a migration table. To make a migration table we will use the command as:

php artisan migrates the above command 

This Command will create the pending migration changes to the database.

7. Start the development server of the Laravel

To start the server of the Laravel we have a command to run:

php artisan serve

This command will start the server of the Laravel, as we can see in the image reference below:

Now we can copy this localhost URL and paste it into the browser then we can see the welcome page of the Laravel.

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Conclusion

That’s how we can install Laravel on a Windows machine successfully, start with the composer installation and that will help us to install Laravel on our Windows operating system machine. Follow all of the above-mentioned steps to install Laravel on your Windows system but make sure that, you already have a localhost server and PHP, and MySQL Installed on your system because Laravel uses PHP and MySQL to complete it’s installation process. So if you don’t have it in your machine first install them after that follow the steps of installing Laravel on your machine.

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