This tutorial will get you up and running with Laravel 5 under 30 seconds. I will cover Laravel 5 installation along with adding controllers and views to your project. This tutorial was made to be simple and straight forward. Lets get started.
#Installing Laravel Lets get the necessary Laravel 5 environment stuff out of the way :
Install Composer
curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | sudo php -- --install-dir=/usr/local/bin --filename=composer
Install Laravel Installer.
composer global require "laravel/installer=~1.1"
Add Composer Vendors to Global Path.
echo "export PATH=$PATH:'~/.composer/vendor/bin'" > ~/.bash_profile
Create your first Laravel 5 project.
laravel new HelloWorld
Laravel 5 will automatically download and structure the project for you. Your directory structure should look similar to the following.
You can goto the Laravel5 website to learn more about Laravel 5 root directory structure.
#Creating A View
Navigate to resources/views and create a new view.
I called my view hello.php. Add the following html code to the view
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Laravel</title>
<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Lato:100" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
<style>
html, body {
height: 100%;
}
body {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
width: 100%;
display: table;
font-weight: 100;
font-family: 'Lato';
}
.container {
text-align: center;
display: table-cell;
vertical-align: middle;
}
.content {
text-align: center;
display: inline-block;
}
.title {
font-size: 96px;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div class="container">
<div class="content">
<div class="title">Laravel 5</div>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
#Creating A Controller
We need to create a controller to serve our new view. Navigate to app/Http/Controllers and create a new controller file. I named my controller file helloController.php. Then add the following php code into the controller file. If you want to learn more about how controllers work checkout I suggest taking a peek at Larvel 5 documentation on controllers.
<?php
namespace App\Http\Controllers;
use App\Http\Controllers\Controller;
class helloController extends Controller
{
public function hello()
{
return view('hello');
}
}
#Configure Routing Routes glue controllers and views together. Lets configure a route to tell Laravel 5 we want our helloController to serve our hello view.
Navigate to /app/Http and open the routes.php file and add the following route snippet:
Route::get('/hello', 'helloController@hello');
Lets see our new view in action. Navigate to the root of the project and execute the following :
php artisan serve
Navigate to http://localhost:8000/hello and you should see something like this :
