PHP Laravel Framework Introduction and Installation

Laravel is a simple, elegant PHP Web development Framework (PHP Web framework). It frees you from the messy code of noodles, and it helps you build a perfect web app, and every line of code can be concise and expressive. Official propaganda language:

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Official website: http://laravel.com/

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Installation:

Installation via composer:

The Laravel framework utilizes Composer for installation and dependency management. If you haven ' t already, start by installing Composer.

Now your can install Laravel by issuing the following command from your terminal:

composer create-project laravel/laravel your-project-name --prefer-dist

This command would download and install a fresh copy of Laravel in a new your-project-name folder within your the current directory.

If you prefer, you can alternatively download a copy of the Laravel repository from Github manually. Next run the composer install command in the root of your manually created project directory. This command would download and install the framework ' s dependencies.

After installation access: http://localhost/laravel-projectname/public/index.php

The normal access will be OK.

Serving Laravel

Typically, you could use a Web server such as Apache or Nginx to serve your Laravel applications. If you're on PHP 5.4+ and would like to use PHP's built-in development server, you could use the serve Artisan com Mand:

php artisan serve