From the course: MVC Frameworks for Building PHP Web Applications
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Laravel setup
From the course: MVC Frameworks for Building PHP Web Applications
Laravel setup
- [Instructor] In this movie, we're going to look at installing Laravel and talk about the artisan command line interface. So if you're actually developing an application using Laravel, I recommend looking into Homestead and Valet. These can essentially create you a VM that you can use to have a custom environment for your application. What this means is that instead of just having the PHP code included, you can actually encompass your database and anything else you need to that environment, and you can run it in a separate instance inside of your computer, so that way you've got something running separately, and it's all encompassed and it's all engaged, so you can easily transfer it from computer to computer as you deploy it into different environments. However, oftentimes in development, we just install things in our local computer, so let's look at how we can do that. We're going to use Composer. Laravel version 5.3 requires you to have at least PHP 5.6.4. You also might have to…
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