From the course: MVC Frameworks for Building PHP Web Applications
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Laravel concepts and features
From the course: MVC Frameworks for Building PHP Web Applications
Laravel concepts and features
- [Voiceover] Let's take a look at how Laravel works and some key features and concepts when working within the Laravel framework. Laravel relies on Composer for installation. You can use Composer itself to install Laravel, or they have their own installer. Their own installer actually uses Composer internally, but you can set it up to your command line if you want to use it regularly. Laravel also includes the Artisan command-line interface. This has a lot of tools that can speed development tasks and also management tasks, so it allows you to do a number of different things, like generate application keys, and other things you have to do from within this environment. Another thing you can do with Artisan is manage your database migrations. So this allows you to essentially keep the same database from environment to environment, without having to remember all the changes that happen, you just keep them in a single file, you do a migration every time you move that file over into a new…
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