How To Create Laravel 5 New Project

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How To Create Laravel 5 New Project

0) Pre-requisite

Follow the previous tutorial to set up Laravel installer, http://php-steps.blogspot.my/2016/02/how-to-set-up-php-composer-and-laravel.html 

1) Using Laravel Installer

Go to your target installation directory, for e.g c:\z\webprojects\.

Type cd c:\z\webprojects

Then, Type laravel new blog1

You may encounter an error that says mbstring is missing.

Open php.ini file and uncomment the related line.

2) Using Composer

Alternatively, you can use Composer to create a new Laravel project.

It goes a long way to create the project.

3) Comparison

By comparison, the first approach created a folder blog1 with a size of 750kb while the second approach created a folder blog2 with a size of 20.7MB. Obviously Composer has downloaded more files.

Blog1 failed to load.

Blog2 displayed the following.

Why?

Directory comparison shows that Blog1 is missing the vendor folder (20.5MB)

Click here to solve this problem (Laravel project missing vendor files)
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