Composer is a tool to easily retrieve packages required for most PHP projects and frameworks. Laravel can be found available in Composer at packagist.org. Detailed documentation for Composer can be found at https://getcomposer.org
This is a quick guide on installing Laravel then creating a page to display hello world!.
Installation environment for this How-to;
MS Windows 10
Apache2
PHP v7.0.12
Composer 1.2.2
Laravel 5.3
By the end of this guide, the following directories should have been generated.
Step 1: Installing Composer
Ensure Apache2 and PHP7 is already installed and working before starting this guide.Download and install Windows Composer installer https://getcomposer.org/Composer-Setup.exe
Open a terminal and change to the installed PHP folder. Type
$> composer -V
(Or with the file composer.phar in same directory, type)
$> php composer.phar
Update composer and check the version.
$> php -r "copy('https://getcomposer.org/installer', 'composer-setup.php');"
$> php -r "if (hash_file('SHA384', 'composer-setup.php') === 'aa96f26c2b67226a324c27919f1eb05f21c248b987e6195cad9690d5c1ff713d53020a02ac8c217dbf90a7eacc9d141d') { echo 'Installer verified'; } else { echo 'Installer corrupt'; unlink('composer-setup.php'); } echo PHP_EOL;"
$> php composer-setup.php
$> php -r "unlink('composer-setup.php');"
$> composer -V
Step 2: Create an empty composer project
Create a project folder called myproject.Open a terminal and enter folder for myproject
Type
$> composer init
Choose default values, except following;
Package type: project
dev dependencies: yes
Search for a package: laravel/laravel
Press "Enter" until exit the interactive menu.
This will create a default json file for the composer. This step is only an example of creating a json file. Feel free to ignore this step.
Step 3: Install Laravel Framework and dependencies
Create a project folder called myproject, if you haven't.Open a terminal and enter folder for myproject, and type.
$> composer create-project --prefer-dist laravel/laravel hello
This will do pretty much that same as Step 2 above, except that it will create the workspace called hello and load all the required libraries and plugins.
Laravel is installed in the folder hello.
Step 4: Start local server
Open a terminal and enter folder for hello, and type. $> cd hello
$> php artisan serve Laravel development server started on http://localhost:8000/
Open a web browser and type the URL mentioned above.
http://localhost:8000/
It displays the default Laravel page.
Step 5: Display a Hello World page
Open a terminal and go to the project folder ->hello ->resources ->viewsCreate a file helloworld.blade.php with following text
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Laravel</title>
</head>
<body>
Hello World!
</body>
</html>
Tell Laravel that to display this "VIEW" when the URL is /hello.
Edit the file web.php in the project folder ->hello ->routes
Route::get('/hello', function () {
return view('helloworld');
});
Save the file.
Open a web browser and type the URL mentioned above.
http://localhost:8000/hello
This displays the Hello World! page with HTML formatting from the file resources/views/helloworld.blade.php
Step 6: Display a Hello World text (without Views)
Tell Laravel to display some HTML when the URL is /hello2
Edit the file web.php in the project folder ->hello ->routes
Save the file.
Open a web browser and type the URL mentioned above.
http://localhost:8000/hello2
This displays the Hello World 2! text.
Happy trying out Lavarel.Edit the file web.php in the project folder ->hello ->routes
Route::get('/hello2', function () {
return 'Hello World 2!';
});
Save the file.
Open a web browser and type the URL mentioned above.
http://localhost:8000/hello2
This displays the Hello World 2! text.
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