Blog App (using Laravel 5)
This is a basic personal blog web app using Laravel 5
Local dev environment setup
# Ensure php is installed
$ php -v
PHP 5.5.30 (cli) (built: Oct 23 2015 17:21:45)
Copyright (c) 1997-2015 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.5.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2015 Zend Technologies
# Install composer and laravel (if necessary)
$ curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php
$ mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer
$ composer global require "laravel/installer"
# Add composer binaries to the global path
$ export PATH=$PATH:~/.composer/vendor/bin
# Check if laravel installer is installed correctly
$ laravel -V
Laravel Installer version 1.3.1
Dev workflow
# Install dependencies
composer install --prefer-dist
# Run database migrations
php artisan migrate
# Run the server
php artisan serve
DB migrations
# Create a new migration to create a database table
php artisan make:migration create_posts_table --create=posts
# Run database migrations
php artisan migrate
# Seeding the database
php artisan db:seed
# Re-seeding the database
php artisan migrate:refresh --seed