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PHP Laravel 4 Basics Getting Started with Laravel Updates To Laravel

kudzai
kudzai
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Posted by kudzai
kudzai
6,988 Points

Laravel 5 Clone

Hello,

I have a laravel 5 app that I"m working from and it's pushed up to Github. After pulling it into a different machine (lap top) to continue working on it, I cannot seem to get it to work. It works fine on my other machine (desk top). I come from Rails and I am new to Laravel. In Rails I would just run "bundle install" and "rake db:migrate" and my app would be set to go. What do I need to with Laravel to get my app running after cloning it? Thanks!

6 Answers

thomascawthorn
thomascawthorn
22,986 Points

Any luck getting your project up?

Now you've installed your dependencies, you should be able to run

php artisan migrate

to set up your database. Make sure that you've already created the database with the correct credentials in your local enviornment first!

thomascawthorn
thomascawthorn
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thomascawthorn
thomascawthorn
22,986 Points

Awesome!

Okay, so you've cloned your repo to a local directory - using terminal, navigate to the root of that directory.

Make sure you've got a composer.json file set up (and it's the same as your desktop version).

type composer into the command line to make sure it's all working properly. You should get back all the help content etc..

composer

Then run

composer install

to install your dependencies. You should see loads of 'loading' or 'installing' things coming back at you.

Let us know when you've reached this step :)

thomascawthorn
thomascawthorn
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thomascawthorn
thomascawthorn
22,986 Points

Hey!

Laravel uses composer - Composer is to PHP what bundle is to Ruby.

First question - Is composer installed on the laptop?

kudzai
kudzai
6,988 Points
kudzai
kudzai
6,988 Points

Hello,

Thanks for your response. Yes, composer is also on my laptop.

kudzai
kudzai
6,988 Points
kudzai
kudzai
6,988 Points

Thanks, Tom. My composer.json file is matches with the one on the desktop. I've run $composer.

kudzai
kudzai
6,988 Points
kudzai
kudzai
6,988 Points

Yay! Thanks, it works. Awesome!