Laravel 4 Installation and Getting Started Tutorial _php example

I. Installation of composer

First you need to install Composer,composer is a PHP dependency management tool, Laravel Framework is to use Composer to perform installation and dependency management.
Note:
(1) If the installation composer error, open the Php_openssl,php_fileinfo extension in the php.ini, because Laravel need.
(2) During the installation process, choose the correct php.exe position

Two. Install Laravel

Composer installation is complete, in cmd, your website directory executes the following command:

 
  
  

  
   
   
Composer Create-project Laravel/laravel Your-project-name
 
  
  

Composer will automatically help you download Laravel and install.

Three. Deploying a virtual Host

For example, my project name is Project:

 
  
  

  
   
   
<virtualhost *:80>
  
   
   
DocumentRoot "E:/www/project/public"
  
   
   
ServerName Laravel.dev
  
   
   
ErrorLog "Logs/laravel.log"
  
   
   
Customlog "Logs/laravel.log" common
  
   
   
</VirtualHost>
 
  
  

Of course, you also need to bind the domain name in your hosts:

 
  
  

  
   
   
127.0.0.1 Laravel.dev
 
  
  

At this point, the installation is complete:

Four. Realize Hello World

Print Hello world with routing implementation, add in app/routes.php:

 
  
  

  
   
   
Route::get (' Test ', function ()
  
   
   
{
  
   
   
Return ' Hello world! ';
  
   
   
});
 
  
  

Because the Laravel template uses a blade, so in the following tutorial to introduce controller or view-related!