Getting Laravel Set Up

I've recorded a series to illustrate how to get a Laravel project set up on your development machine. I cover creating a virtual machine, installing Laravel, using Git for version control, and setting up our project in PHPStorm.

Part 1.

Topics covered

• Using PuPHPet to get a VM created and provisioned

Part 2.

Topics covered

• Adding a line to your hosts file
• Using Vim
• Creating a Laravel project using Composer
• Changing folder/file permissions for Laravel

Part 3.

Topics covered

• Adding the project in PHPStorm
• Using Composer to install a helper package for PHPStorm
• Setting up PHPUnit in PHPStorm

Part 4.

Topics covered

• Configuring the database connection
• Creating and running a Laravel migration
• Using Git and BitBucket to track our project
• Configuring Sequel Pro to connect to our database
• Setting up Git in PHPStorm