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

For simpler version, please skip this one and visit :

The steps in this chapter make things a little bit more complicated and needs additional changes compared to the link just provided.

That's because this chapter's tutorial is for the case when we install Laravel into non-standered place.

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 wamp/www/public_html 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

Otherwise, we may get the following message while we trying to install composer in the next step:

Some settings on your machine make Composer unable to work properly.
Make sure that you fix the issues listed below and run this script again:

The openssl extension is missing, which means that secure HTTPS transfers are impossible.
If possible you should enable it or recompile php with --with-openssl

After we restart apache, we should be able to see this from phpinfo():

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:

Copy and paste all C:\wamp\www\public_html\laravel-master\public folder files into C:\wamp\www\public_html\ folder.

After we moved the files, the C:\wamp\www\public_html\ looks like this:

Just for convenience, let's rename laravel-master to laravel.

Edit index.php as below:

require __DIR__.'/../bootstrap/autoload.php'  =>
require __DIR__.'/laravel/bootstrap/autoload.php'; 

Also, the other line as well:

$app = require_once __DIR__.'/../bootstrap/start.php';  =>
$app = require_once __DIR__.'/laravel/bootstrap/start.php';

This adjustments are needed because we moved the up one level when we copied the files in laravel/public in the previous step.

Open bootstrap\paths.php and edit the line :

'public' => __DIR__.'/../public', 

to this:

'public' => __DIR__.'/../..',

Now, we've done our part. Let's see how the browser will do when we type in http://localhost/laravel/public/:

OK, that's it!

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