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Laravel Installation Guide

The Laravel installation guide outlines 5 steps: 1. Install PHP and XAMPP to have a local development environment. 2. Download Composer to manage Laravel's dependencies. 3. Install Composer by following the Windows instructions. 4. Verify Composer is installed properly by running the 'composer' command. 5. Create a new Laravel project using Composer and explore the generated files and directories.

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Laravel Installation Guide

The Laravel installation guide outlines 5 steps: 1. Install PHP and XAMPP to have a local development environment. 2. Download Composer to manage Laravel's dependencies. 3. Install Composer by following the Windows instructions. 4. Verify Composer is installed properly by running the 'composer' command. 5. Create a new Laravel project using Composer and explore the generated files and directories.

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Laravel Installation Guide

Step 1: Install XAMPP/ Download PHP


1. Your local machine must have PHP installed. If have already have XAMPP installed, you can
skip to next step.
2. Or go to the official XAMPP website (https://www.apachefriends.org/index.html), download and
install it.
3. Or you can download PHP directly from this website. Then copy it to your desired directory (e.g.
C:\) and add PHP path to your environment variables.

Step 2: Download Composer


1. Go to the Composer official website: https://getcomposer.org/download/
2. Download Composer.

Step 3: Install Composer


1. Follow the following steps (For Windows), and install Composer.
Step 4: Checking If Composer is Installed Properly
1. Open your command prompt and write the command, `composer`. You will see the following
response.
Step 5: Creating Your First Laravel Project
1. After you have installed PHP and Composer, you may create a new Laravel project via
Composer's create-project command:

`composer create-project laravel/laravel example-app`

It might take 1-2 minutes, and a new project folder “example-app” will be created. You might see
the following response.

2. Go to ‘\example-app’ directory by using `cd example-app` command, or manually using file


explorer. And then open the project using your favorite code editor.
3. To run the project write the command `php artisan serve`.
4. Go to the server url (e.g. http://127.0.0.1:8000 in our case.

Congratulations! You are ready for your Laravel adventure. You can visit the official Laravel website
(https://laravel.com/docs/10.x/installation) for more details.

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