# PHP laravel setup on OSX

# Disclaimer

My background in development started as a frontend web dev and later moved towards nodejs to the backend as my main stack. Therefore, it helps me to write down the setup process

# Prereqs

you'll need

• php (which should be installed on your machine)
• composer
• laravel
• scaffold application and run local dev server
• alt - local server mamp (to get the server running via an app)

# setup composer

curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php 
php composer.phar
mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer
composer

You can also create an alias but it's duplicating mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer

# setup laravel

# via laravel/installer

composer global require "laravel/installer"

afterwards to ensure that you can globally call the package

add the following to your bash/zshrc export PATH=$PATH:~/.composer/vendor/bin

by doing laravel you should now be able to see the command prompt for laravel.

# scaffold application and run local dev server

laravel new blogname
cd blogname
php artisan serve

# Alt - local server

You can also use mamp to serve the project from the project dir/ via mamp

# Author

Denis Tsoi denistsoi@gmail.com