Installation procedure of Laravel

                                     
Laravel is a PHP-based web framework that is largely based on the MVC architecture. Laravel was created to make it easier for developers to get started on PHP projects. With Laravel, you think less about the setup, architecture, and dependencies of a project and go straight into the meat of the project.

How Laravel Works:

Laravel mainly depends upon three components they are,

1.Model

2.View

3.Controller

The architecture of those three components are is as follows,

MODEL: Represents real-life instance or object in our code base.

VIEW: Represents the interface through which the user interacts with our application.

CONTROLLER: When a user takes an action, the Controller handles the action and updates the Model if necessary.

INSTALLATION OF COMPOSER:

Step1:  Download the composer in your system to start working on it from the following URL “ https://getcomposer.org/download/ “.

Step2:  After downloading the composer install it from the setup that is downloaded.

Step3:  Once the installation is completed open the command prompt and give the command as “ composer “ to check the whether the composer is installed.

CREATING A DIRECTORY:

Step4:  After checking it then create a new directory in the system to start working on the new laravel project by giving the command “ mkdir directoryname “. (Ex: mkdir laravel)

Step5:  Go into that directory to start working on the new laravel project  by giving the command “ cd directoryname “. (Ex: cd laravel)

INSTALLATION OF LARAVEL:

Step6: Install the laravel in the same directory that you have created before by giving the command “ composer create-project laravel/laravel  --prefer  -dist “.

Step7:  To install the complete framework of Laravel 5.7 give the following command “ composer create-project laravel/laravel test dev-develop “.

Step8:  After all the installation work is done open the directory laravel that is present inside the laravel directory before by giving the command “ cd laravel “.

GETTING THE LINK:

Step9:  Then go into that directory then give the command as “php artisan serves “to get the URL, the output appears as follows,

 WEBSITE:

Step10: Open that URL in a browser and it will be displayed as follows,

CACHING:

Step11:  To cache all the configuration values and to boost the web application performance give the command as “php artisan config: cache “.

MAINTENANCE:

Step12:  To do any changes to your  website then give the command as “ php artisan down “. Then it will go into the maintenance mode.

*THE WEBSITE IS IN MAINTENANCE MODE *

Step13:  After the work is done give the command as “ php artisan up “ to get the website appear live.

*THE WEBSITE IS LIVE AGAIN*