Founder: Taylor Otwell

First beta release: June 9, 2011

Mission: Is to make developer's lives more enjoyable and peaceful by creating wonderful tools to create web applications

INTRODUCTION OF LARAVEL FRAMEWORK:

Laravel is a powerful framework of PHP which is used to develop a web application. Laravel is created by Taylor Otwell. This is simple, elegant, robust and easy to understand to create a fully-featured web application. If you know basic HTML, PHP, and Advance PHP then you can easily use this PHP Framework Laravel which is reused the existing components of different frameworks.

What is Composer?

Composer is a tool dependency management in PHP. It allows you to declare the libraries your project depends on and it will manage (install/update) than for you. Composer is not a package manager in the same a Yum or Apt are. Yes, it deals with “packages” or libraries, but it manages them on a per-project basis, installing them in a directory (e.g. vendor) inside your project. By default, it does not install anything globally. Thus, it is a dependency manager. It does however support a “global” project for convenience via the global command.

HOW TO INSTALL LARAVEL USING COMPOSER

Step 1: If you are using xampp server you have to create a folder inside your xampp server at path C: \xampp\htdocs\(folder name). I had created the folder name as Laravel for identification. After that you have to go inside your command prompt and give these commands and minimize the tab.

Step 2: Go to the composer website (getcomposer.org) and click download

Step 3: Then download composer using the link that I had marked below (Composer-setup.exe ).

Step 4: You must install the composer inside the server at path C:\xampp\php\php.exe

Step 5: Then go to the Laravel website (laravel.com). And click the first link.

Step 6: And then click documentation which is in the right corner of the website.

Step 7: Next you have to click installation via composer.

Step 8: Below installation via composer you can see some commands.

Step 9:  Now come to your terminal (step 1) and give these commands one by one.

1.     Give the command create-project laravel/laravel projectname and Press enter

In the project name you can give name whatever you want.

 2. Give the command cd mohan and press enter

It will go inside the project directory

3.      Give the command php artisan serve and press enter. You can see URL which I had marked below. Copy that URL and follow the step 10 

Step 10: Paste the URL in your webpage. Now you will get the laravel website.

Step 11: Then come back to the command prompt you can see the webserver is running.

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