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Create Database and Add Environment Credentials
3:38To start using Laravel, you'll need Composer, a PHP development tool that manages packages and libraries on your computer. Check the teacher's notes below to learn more about Composer. You'll also need a local development environment such as MAMP, which we’ll be using throughout this course. Besides Composer and MAMP, you’ll need a code editor like Visual Studio Code, which is what I’ll be using in this course. Check the notes below for instructions on how to set those up.
Now that your application folder is open
in Visual Studio code, let's create a new
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MySQL database using phpMyAdmin
by clicking on Tools,
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then phpMyAdmin.
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Next, create a database by
clicking on the Databases tab.
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Name the database, click Create,
then navigate to the phpMyAdmin homepage.
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Let's also create a new user under
user accounts by clicking Add user,
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then entering a username
such as laravel_admin.
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Select Local for Host name and
create or generate a secure password.
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Note that you can also decide not to use
a password since we're working locally.
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But make sure that any database and user
has a secure password while in production.
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That is to say, when hosting
the application live on the internet.
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Once you created a user,
click on User accounts,
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then click on Edit privileges for
the user you just created.
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Next, inside of Global privileges,
select Check all,
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then click on Go to save your changes.
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Finally, click on Databases and select the
database you created earlier and click Go.
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Out of the box, Laravel provides us with
an ENV file to configure our project,
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which we'll need to update with
our new database, user, and
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password in these fields.
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If you installed PHP and
MySQL using Homebrew,
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you may need to add this as well.
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Next, save your changes and
head to the Terminal.
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You can also use the integrated
Terminal in Visual Studio Code as well.
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Finally, to confirm that our database
credentials are indeed correct, type,
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php artisan migrate.
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If your database credentials are correct,
you should see something like this.
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The moment of truth.
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Start up your brand new Laravel app.
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Laravel includes a command line
interface named Artisan, which makes it
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easy to serve up your web pages using
your local development environment.
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Serve up your site using
the following command and flag.
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After executing the above command,
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Artisan will run your very own
Laravel application in a web browser.
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Navigate to the URL started by Artisan,
which should look something like this URL.
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The default configuration for
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map uses ports 8888, 8889, and 7888.
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So check the teacher's notes on how
to change the default port settings.
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Congrats, you got a local development
environment up and running.
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You created a Laravel project and
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displayed it in the browser
using Artisan CLI.
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On top of that, you updated your
application environment credentials and
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tested your new user and
database connection.
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In the next section,
we'll cover all of the essential files and
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respective folder structures that
make up a Laravel application.
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See you there.
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