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2015-09-24 Laravel

Laravel 5 Setup

Laravel 5 Setup#

  1. Install Composer

  2. Require the Installer

    composer global require "laravel/installer=~1.1"

  3. Add ~/.composer/vendor/bin to your PATH

    export PATH="$HOME/.composer/vendor/bin:$PATH";

  4. Create A New Project

    laravel new <name of site>

  5. Serve the Project

    • With Artisan

    php artisan serve

    • With PHP

    php -S localhost:8000 -t public /

  6. Update Composer

    composer update

Optional: Change namespae

php artisan app:name <myname>

Tinkering with the commandline#

``` php artisan tinker –env=local


It uses [PsySH](http://psysh.org/) a great interactive php console and debugger

### Installing the Debugbar

composer require barryvdh/laravel-debugbar


Then add to `providers` and `aliases` in `config/app.php`:

‘providers’ => [ ‘Barryvdh\Debugbar\ServiceProvider’ ], ‘aliases’ => [ ‘Debugbar’ => ‘Barry\Debugbar\Facade’ ]


Then install the package:

php artisan vendor:publish


Logging to Debugbar:

\Debugbar::error(‘Something has gone wrong!’);


### Testing

`PHPunit` and `PHPspec` are automatically added to `composer.json`

Check the phpunit version

vendor/bin/phpunit –version


If you can some crap error like:

vendor/bin/phpunit –version You need to set up the project dependencies using the following commands: wget http://getcomposer.org/composer.phar php composer.phar install ```

Rather remove vendor/

then run composer install

Hopefully they fix this kak

Running the Test#

vendor/bin/phpunit