How to Install Laravel Framework in Windows

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Last Updated: December 1, 2019 Tested

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This wikiHow teaches you how to install the Laravel framework for your PHP client on a Windows computer.

Part 1

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Installing XAMPP

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Go to https://www.apachefriends.org/download.html in your computer's web browser.
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Scroll down to the "7.2.8 / PHP 7.2.8" heading. You'll find it near the bottom of the list of downloads.
- This is important; since Laravel requires PHP 7.13 or higher, you'll need to make sure you don't accidentally install an older version of XAMPP.
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It's a blue button to the right of the "7.2.8 / PHP 7.2.8" heading. This will download the XAMPP setup file onto your computer.
Double-click the downloaded setup file to do so.
This will open the XAMPP setup window.
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Navigate through the XAMPP setup process. Click through the XAMPP menus by doing the following:
- Click Next three times.
- Uncheck the "Learn more about Bitnami for XAMPP" box.
- Click Next twice.
This will open the XAMPP language preferences pop-up window.
Doing so will save your default language settings and open the XAMPP dashboard.
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Start Apache. Click Start to the right of each of the "Apache" heading. This will turn on Apache. At this point, you're ready to install Composer.
- You can also do the same with the "MySQL" heading, but you'll need to have MySQL installed in order to do so.

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Installing Composer

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Go to https://getcomposer.org/download/ in your computer's web browser.
Click the Composer-Setup.exe link near the top of the page.
Double-click the "Composer-Setup" file to do so.
This will open the Composer installation window.
It's at the bottom of the window.
If you have multiple different command line-based PHP options installed on your computer, click the one listed in the drop-down box at the top of the window, then click C:\xampp\php\php.exe in the drop-down menu.
This option is at the bottom of the menu.
It's at the bottom of the window. Composer will begin installing.
Doing so signifies that Composer has been installed successfully.

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Activating Composer

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Click the Windows icon in the bottom-left corner of the screen.
Type in command prompt to do so.
You should see it appear at the top of the Start window. A drop-down menu will appear.
It's in the drop-down menu.
Doing so opens Command Prompt with administrator privileges.
Type in php composer.phar and press ↵ Enter .
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Wait for Composer to finish updating. Once the update completes, you can proceed with installing Laravel .
- If you receive an error when you run the "php composer.phar" command, you'll need to manually change the Composer directory before you proceed with installing Laravel.

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Installing Composer Manually

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If the last attempt to install Composer didn't work, you can use a PHP script in Command Prompt to manually install Laravel.

Select the entire script in the code box below, then press Ctrl + C to copy it.

 php 
 - 
 r 
 "copy('https://getcomposer.org/installer', 'composer-setup.php');" 
 php 
 - 
 r 
 "if (hash_file('SHA384', 'composer-setup.php') === '544e09ee996cdf60ece3804abc52599c22b1f40f4323403c44d44fdfdd586475ca9813a858088ffbc1f233e9b180f061') { echo 'Installer verified'; } else { echo 'Installer corrupt'; unlink('composer-setup.php'); } echo PHP_EOL;" 
 php 
 composer 
 - 
 setup 
 . 
 php 
 php 
 - 
 r 
 "unlink('composer-setup.php');"

Doing so ensures that Command Prompt won't return any errors due to other commands interfering with your script.
Press Ctrl + V to add the script to Command Prompt. The script will automatically begin running.
Simply press ↵ Enter once you see the "php -r "unlink('composer-setup.php');"" line appear to do so.
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Re-run the Composer command. Type the following into Command Prompt, then press ↵ Enter :
```
 php 
 composer 
 . 
 phar 
```

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Installing Laravel

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Doing so ensures that you don't have any interference from past commands.
Type in composer global require "laravel/installer" and press ↵ Enter . Laravel will immediately begin to install.
Once Laravel finishes installing, you'll see the regular Command Prompt tag (e.g., "system32>") appear below the list of commands. At this point, you can begin using Laravel as needed.

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Due to Laravel's dependency on up-to-date PHP, you may have to update XAMPP more often than you did previously.

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Activating Composer

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