KICKSTART YOUR LARAVEL JOURNEY!!
<p>Hello Ladies and Gentlemen, it’s time to setup our environment and start building beautiful websites using Laravel.</p>
<p>To run Laravel on your local machine, you’ll be needing the following software/tools,</p>
<h2>XAMPP (Version > 8.1)</h2>
<p>Since Laravel is a PHP framework, you need a PHP interpreter along with a web server to run PHP scripts on your local machine. In that scenario, XAMPP becomes very handy, since it comes with Apache (a web server), MySQL (a database), PHP, and other tools, making it easy to set up a local development environment for PHP-based web applications. Yet, there are many other options to run PHP scripts on your local machine. Feel free to install whichever suits you.</p>
<p>Download Link : <a href="https://www.apachefriends.org/download.html" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.apachefriends.org/download.html</a></p>
<h2>COMPOSER</h2>
<p>Composer is a dependency management tool for PHP that allows you to easily manage and install third-party libraries and packages required by your project. When creating a Laravel project, Composer is used to set up the initial project structure and install Laravel’s core files and dependencies</p>
<p>Download Link: <a href="https://getcomposer.org/download/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">https://getcomposer.org/download/</a></p>
<h2>IDE</h2>
<p>Any suitable IDE (Ex. VS Code, Brackets etc.)</p>
<h1>SETUP</h1>
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<li>Download XAMPP and install it.</li>
<li>The next step is to add PHP path to the environment variable. To do that, navigate to the installed file location (C:\xampp), enter into the <strong>php</strong> folder, copy the file path (C:\xampp\php). Search Edit <strong>environment variable</strong> in the task bar. On the pop up window, click on <strong>environmet variable. </strong>In <strong>System variables </strong>section locate <strong>path </strong>and click <strong>edit. </strong>Click <strong>new </strong>located on the right hand side and past the copied path.</li>
<li>Download Composer. Open command prompt and enter composer to check whether the composer is properly installed on your system.</li>
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