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  Installation

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  Laravel applications are installed and managed with Composer, a popular PHP dependency manager. There are two ways to create a new Laravel application.

  Via Composer

  $ composer create-project laravel/laravel [foldername]
  

  Replace [foldername] with the name of the directory you want your new Laravel application installed to. It must not exist before installation. You may also need to add the Composer executable to your system path.

  Via the Laravel installer

  Laravel provides a helpful command line utility to quickly create Laravel applications. First, install the installer:

  $ composer global require laravel/installer
  

  You have to make sure that the Composer binaries folder is within your $PATH variable to execute the Laravel installer.

  First, look if it already is in your $PATH variable

  echo $PATH

  If everything is correct, the output should contain something like this:

  Users/yourusername/.composer/vendor/bin

  If not, edit your .bashrc or, if your using ZSH, your .zshrc so it contains the path to your Composer vendor directory.

  Once installed, this command will create a fresh Laravel installation in the directory you specify.

  laravel new [foldername]
  

  You can also use . (a dot) in place of [foldername] to create the project in the current working directory without making a sub-directory.

  Running the application

  Laravel comes bundled with a PHP-based web server which can be started by running

  $ php artisan serve
  

  By default the HTTP server will use port 8000, but if the port is already in use or if you want to run multiple Laravel applications at once, you can use the --port flag to specify a different port:

  $ php artisan serve --port=8080
  

  Using a different server

  If you prefer to use a different web server software, some configuration files are provided for you inside the public directory of your project; .htaccess for Apache and web.config for ASP.NET. For other software such as Nginx, you can convert the Apache configurations using various online tools.

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  The framework needs the web server user to have write permissions on the following directories:

  • /storage
  • /bootstrap/cache

  On *nix operating systems this can be achieved by

  chgrp -R www-data:www-data storage bootstrap/cache
  chmod -R ug+rwx storage bootstrap/cache
  

  (where "www-data" is the name (and group) of the web server user)

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  The web server of your choice should be configured to serve content from your project's /public directory, which is usually done by setting it as the document root. The rest of your project should not be accessible through your web server.

  If you set everything up properly, navigating to your website's URL should display the default landing page of Laravel.

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  Requirements

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  The Laravel framework has the following requirements:

  5.3

  • PHP >= 5.6.4
  • XML PHP Extension
  • PDO PHP Extension

  5.1 (LTS)5.2

  • PHP >= 5.5.9
  • PDO PHP Extension
  • Laravel 5.1 is the first version of Laravel to support PHP 7.0.

  5.0

  • PHP >= 5.4, PHP < 7
  • OpenSSL PHP Extension
  • Tokenizer PHP Extension
  • Mbstring PHP Extension
  • JSON PHP extension (only on PHP 5.5)

  4.2

  • PHP >= 5.4
  • Mbstring PHP Extension
  • JSON PHP extension (only on PHP 5.5)

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  Installation using LaraDock (Laravel Homestead for Docker)

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  LaraDock is a Laravel Homestead like development environment but for Docker instead of Vagrant. https://github.com/LaraDock/laradock

  Installation

  *Requires Git and Docker

  Clone the LaraDock repository:

  A. If you already have a Laravel project, clone this repository on your Laravel root directory:

  git submodule add https://github.com/LaraDock/laradock.git
  

  B. If you don't have a Laravel project, and you want to install Laravel from Docker, clone this repo anywhere on your machine:

  git clone https://github.com/LaraDock/laradock.git
  

  Basic Usage

  1. Run Containers: (Make sure you are in the laradock folder before running the docker-compose commands).

     Example: Running NGINX and MySQL: docker-compose up -d nginx mysql

     There are a list of available containers you can select to create your own combinations.

     nginx, hhvm, php-fpm, mysql, redis, postgres, mariadb, neo4j, mongo, apache2, caddy, memcached, beanstalkd, beanstalkd-console, workspace

  2. Enter the Workspace container, to execute commands like (Artisan, Composer, PHPUnit, Gulp, ...).

     docker-compose exec workspace bash

  3. If you don't have a Laravel project installed yet, follow the step to install Laravel from a Docker container.

     a. Enter the Workspace container.

     b. Install Laravel. composer create-project laravel/laravel my-cool-app "5.3.*"

  4. Edit the Laravel configurations. Open your Laravel's .env file and set the DB_HOST to your mysql:

     DB_HOST=mysql

  5. Open your browser and visit your localhost address.

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  Hello World Example (Basic)

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  Open routes file. Paste the following code in:

  Route::get('helloworld', function () {
      return '<h1>Hello World</h1>';
  });
  

  after going to route localhost/helloworld it displays Hello World.

  The routes file is located:

  5.3

  routes/web.php

  5.25.1 (LTS)5.0

  app/Http/routes.php

  4.2

  app/routes.php

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  Hello World Example (Using Controller and View)

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  1. Create a Laravel application:

     $ composer create-project laravel/laravel hello-world
     

  2. Create a controller:

      $ php artisan make:controller HelloController --resource
     

     This will create the file app/Http/Controllers/HelloController.php. The --resource option will generate CRUD methods for the controller, e.g. index, create, show, update.

  3. Register a route to HelloController's index method. Add this line to app/Http/routes.php:

      Route::get('/hello', 'HelloController@index');
     

     To see your newly added routes, you can run $ php artisan route:list

  4. Create a Blade template in the views directory:

     resources/views/hello.blade.php:

      <h1>Hello world!</h1>
     

  5. Now we tell index method to display the hello.blade.php template:

     app/Http/Controllers/HelloController.php

      // ...
     
      public function index()
      {
          return view('hello');
      }
     
      // ...
     

  Now you can open up http://localhost/hello-world/public/hello in your browser.

  Alternatively, you can serve your app using php artisan serve, then visit http://localhost:8000.

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