How to install Laravel Framework for Development of PHP Websites

How to install Laravel Framework for Development of PHP Websites

1.  You must have code editor for PHP e.g Visual Studio Code, Sublime Text etc.

2.   Download and install XAMPP Server (Link: https://www.apachefriends.org/download.html)

3.   Download and install composer

4.   For testing composer’s installation, open command line interface and type “composer” and press enter, you’ll confirmation will be displayed.

5.   Open link in browser https://laravel.com/, Click on documentation, go to installation section, go to sub section “Create a laravel project”, copy following command

composer global require laravel/installer

Open command line interface and enter this command, it will install laravel installer on your system.

6.   Open command line interface and type “laravel”, it will display confirmation of laravel installer

7.   Now open folder of XAMPP server in drive where you’ve installed it, goto htdocs folder, then click to address bar and type cmd, then type following command in command line interface.

“composer create-project laravel/laravel projectname”

This command will create project with name “projectname” in htdocs folder