PHP Tutorial Laravel 4 Framework Install on Windows

Laravel 4

1. Installing on Ubuntu - local
2. Installing on a Shared host
3. Installing on Windows
4. Creating users table
5. Home page with controller and blade
6. Blade Templating
7. Database connection and sending emails
8. Creating user account I - GET
9. Creating user account II - POST
10. Creating user account III - Error checking & redirecting input
11. Creating user account IV - User::create()
12. Activating user account I - Mail::send()
13. Activating user account II - Update user's status
14. User account sign-in I - Route and link
15. User account sign-in II - Validation
16. User account sign-in III - Login Authentication
17. Singing out
18. Remember the user
19. Changing Password I
20. Changing Password II
21. Recovering forgotten password I
22. Recovering forgotten password II
23. User Profile
24. Database Migration using artisan

This tutorial is the first chapter to show how to make auth application with Laravel. In this chapter, we'll install Laravel 4 under C:\Apache2\htdocs. We will add some additional directories: C:\Apache2\htdocs\bogotobogo\Laravel\auth:

The laravel requires php5.3.7+. So, we need to check, php -v:

PHP 5.4.27 (cli) (built: Apr  3 2014 00:56:21)
Copyright (c) 1997-2014 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.4.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2014 Zend Technologies

It looks OK.

We need to download Laravel from: https://github.com/laravel/laravel/archive/master.zip.

Extract Laravel into the C:\Apache2\htdocs\ which is a DocumentRoot:

Download Composer from: https://getcomposer.org/Composer-Setup.exe.

Enable openssl from all php.ini

;extension=php_openssl.dll =>
extension=php_openssl.dll

Install Composer into the directory where php.exe is located, C:\php

The following PHP Extensions in C:\php\ext should be enabled: php_curl and php_socket.

Edit C:\php\php.ini file:

extension=php_curl.dll
extension=php_sockets.dll

Now, run the composer install command in the root of our manually created project directory (where we extracted Laravel). So, on cmd prompt:

C:\Apache2\htdocs\bogotobogo\Laravel\auth>cd ..
C:\Apache2\htdocs\bogotobogo\Laravel>composer create-project laravel/laravel auth --prefer-dist

Here are the directory and file structure under htdocs dir:

Let's see how the browser will do when we type in
http://localhost/bogotobogo/Laravel/auth/public/:

OK, that's it!

We need phpMyAdmin as well.

If we want to bypass the login session and directly go into the phpMyAdmin, we need to rename config.sample.inc.php to and then edit it:

/*
 * Servers configuration
 */
$i = 0;

/*
 * First server
 */
$i++;
/* Authentication type */

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['user'] = 'root';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['password'] = 'root_password'; 
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_type'] = 'config';

Now, if we type in localhost/phpMyAdmin, we get this:

Laravel 4

1. Installing on Ubuntu - local
2. Installing on a Shared host
3. Installing on Windows
4. Creating users table
5. Home page with controller and blade
6. Blade Templating
7. Database connection and sending emails
8. Creating user account I - GET
9. Creating user account II - POST
10. Creating user account III - Error checking & redirecting input
11. Creating user account IV - User::create()
12. Activating user account I - Mail::send()
13. Activating user account II - Update user's status
14. User account sign-in I - Route and link
15. User account sign-in II - Validation
16. User account sign-in III - Login Authentication
17. Singing out
18. Remember the user
19. Changing Password I
20. Changing Password II
21. Recovering forgotten password I
22. Recovering forgotten password II
23. User Profile
24. Database Migration using artisan