Laravel Setup

Setup Guide for Laravel!

A simple guide to setting up Laravel on your computer!

Laravel uses Composer to manage it's dependencies. So first lets make sure we have that installed!

Installing Composer

Paste these lines in your terminal to get the latest version of composer.

$ php -r "copy('https://getcomposer.org/installer', 'composer-setup.php');"
$ php -r "if (hash_file('SHA384', 'composer-setup.php') === '669656bab3166a7aff8a7506b8cb2d1c292f042046c5a994c43155c0be6190fa0355160742ab2e1c88d40d5be660b410') { echo 'Installer verified'; } else { echo 'Installer corrupt'; unlink('composer-setup.php'); } echo PHP_EOL;"
$ php composer-setup.php
$ php -r "unlink('composer-setup.php');"

This will download, verify, run, and finally remove the installer for compser.

Install Laravel

Now that we have composer installed, we can install Laravel!

composer global require "laravel/installer"

We now need to add $HOME/.composer/vendor/bin to our $PATH so that Laravel is executable.

$ echo 'export PATH="$PATH:$HOME/.composer/vendor/bin"' >> ~/.bash_profile

$ source ~/.bash_profile

Good to go!

Congrats! Larvel should be ready to go. Simply run the following snippet to create a new project.

laravel new nameOfProject