Launched in June 2011, Laravel<\/strong> is one of the most popular open-source PHP framework till now. Laravel is developed by Taylor Otwell<\/a> and follow MVC (Model-View-Controller)<\/a> design pattern. Purpose of laravel is to bring more advanced alternative to the Codeigniter<\/a> framework, which did not provide certain features like user authentication and authorization.<\/p>\n I am not going to cover laravel features in this post. I will do that in my upcoming tutorials. In this tutorial I am just going to cover step by step laravel installation on windows using XAMPP<\/strong>.<\/p>\n At the time of writing this post stable version of laravel is 8 and it has following requirement to run on server.<\/p>\n Dont worry about above requirements, your XAMPP has all the above extension by default. If just in case you don’t have xampp on your windows machine then read my post.<\/p>\n Another thing which is must for laravel installation is “Composer”. If you don’t know what is composer then in simple word “Composer is a tool for dependency management in PHP”. For more details and composer installation read my post.<\/p>\nLaravel Version and Requirements:<\/h3>\n
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