Laravel

Environment Setup

XAMPP - Apache + MariaDB + PHP + Perl - This is common for all OS.

WAMP - Apache server, MySQL, PHP on Windows - This is only for Windows

LAMP - Apache server , MySQL, PHP on Linux - This is only for Linux

MAMP -  Apache server , MySQL, PHP on Mac - This is only for Mac

1. Start the apache server and sql.

2. Then check the php version

3. Go to laravel documentation

Check whether your php version is matched for the laravel conditions.  
If it did not match, update your php version or change the laravel version. 
The better solution is update your php version

check the php version

laravel version

laravel version

4. Download the composer and install.

composer

5. Go to XAMPP-> htdocs create new folder named what you want

6. Move to that folder 

7. Open command line and enter this command - 
composer create-project --prefer-dist laravel/laravel blog 
here is blog is my project name

8. Then run the project with this command - php artisan serve

These are the basic steps to create a new project

9. MVC - Model View Controller

Understand what mvc is.

MVC

10. Understand the directory structure

directory structure

11. Go to phpmyadmin and create a DataBase

12. Open the project through code editor (visual studio code is light weight with cmd)

Here model file is database table - we can create many model files

Migration files are table columns - we can create many migration files

13. Then go to .env file change the sql user name, pwd, db name