Creating First Laravel Project - Laravel Installation

Laravel is a popular PHP framework for building web applications. In this article, we'll walk through the steps of installing Laravel and creating your first Laravel project.

Laravel Installation

You'll need PHP version 7.3 or higher installed on your machine in order to install and use Laravel.

1. Using Composer

Laravel can be installed using Composer, a dependency manager for PHP. You'll need to install Composer before you can install Laravel.

Syntax

composer create-project --prefer-dist laravel/laravel projectName

Example

composer create-project --prefer-dist laravel/laravel myblog

This will create a new Laravel project called "myblog" in the current directory.

Output

Once the installation is complete, you will see a message that says "Application key set successfully."

Explanation

Composer is used to install all the required dependencies for the Laravel project. The create-project command creates a new Laravel project with the given name in the current directory.

Use

Composer is used to manage dependencies for many PHP projects, including Laravel.

Important Points

• You'll need to have Composer installed before installing Laravel.
• Composer is used to install all dependencies for the Laravel project.
• Laravel requires PHP version 7.3 or higher.

Summary

In this article, we walked through the steps of installing Laravel using Composer. We also created a new Laravel project using the create-project command. Now you're ready to start building your first Laravel application!