Laravel Tutorial => Installation

Example

Detailed instructions on getting laravel set up or installed.

composer is required for installing laravel easily.

There are 3 methods of installing laravel in your system:

Via Laravel Installer

Download the Laravel installer using composer
```
composer global require "laravel/installer"
```
Before using composer we need to add ~/.composer/vendor/bin to PATH. After installation has finished we can use laravel new command to create a new project in Laravel.

Example:
```
laravel new {folder name}
```
This command creates a new directory named as site and a fresh Laravel installation with all other dependencies are installed in the directory.
Via Composer Create-Project

You can use the command in the terminal to create a new Laravel app:
```
composer create-project laravel/laravel {folder name}
```
Via Download

Download Laravel and unzip it.
1. composer install
2. Copy .env.example to .env via teminal or manually.
```
cp .env.example .env
```
3. Open .env file and set your database, email, pusher, etc. (if needed)
4. php artisan migrate (if database is setup)
5. php artisan key:generate
6. php artisan serve
7. Go to localhost:8000 to view the site

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