Laravel Cheatsheet

Configuration

Environment Variables

In a fresh Laravel installation, the root directory of your application will contain a .env.example file. Rename the file .env.example to .env 

- Environment Variable Types


.env Value	  env() Value
true	        (bool) true
(true)	(bool) true
false	(bool) false
(false)	(bool) false
empty	(string) ''
(empty)	(string) ''
null	(null) null
(null)	(null) null

Course Outline.txt

Getting Started
1. Installation
2. Configuration
3. Routing
4. Middleware
5. CSRF Protection
6. Controllers
7. Views
8. URL Generation
9 . Session
10. Validation

Installlation.txt

Laravel utilizes Composer to manage its dependencies. So, before using Laravel, make sure you have Composer installed on your machine.

Requirements: 

- PHP / Apache
- Database (MySQL, Oracle, SQLite, PostgreSQL or MongoDB)
- Text Editor (i.e. [VS Code, Notepad++], [Sublime Text, PHPStorm])
* Composer (https://getcomposer.org/download/)

* INTERNET Connection

After you installed Composer, you may download the Laravel Installer via Composer by executing this command:
$ composer global require laravel/installer

Once you have successfully installed Laravel, make sure to place Composer's system-wide vendor bin directory in your $PATH so the laravel executable can be located by your system. This directory exists in different locations based on your operating system; 
You can do that by adding this to your PATH:

%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming\Composer\vendor\bin

or run this command:

$ setx path "%path%;%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming\Composer\vendor\bin"


Once installed, the laravel new command will create a fresh Laravel installation in the directory you specify 

$ laravel new <project_name>

Alternatively, you may also create a Laravel by issuing the Composer create-project command in your terminal:

$ composer create-project --prefer-dist laravel/laravel <project_name>



Local Development Server

If you have PHP installed locally and you would like to use PHP's built-in development server to serve your application, you may use the serve Artisan command. 
This command will start a development server at http://localhost:8000:

$ php artisan serve

In case this command is NOT working, you may use this to use PHP's built-in development server:
$ php -S 127.0.0.1:8000 -t public\