composer create laravel project code example
Example 1: create laravel 6 project using composer
composer create-project --prefer-dist laravel/laravel blog "6.*"
Example 2: install laravel
composer create-project --prefer-dist laravel/laravel blog
Example 3: composer create project laravel 7
composer create-project --prefer-dist laravel/laravel:^7.0 blog
Example 4: laravel create project
// To install and use a specific version, you can enter it at the end of the command.
// For example using version 5.8 ==>
composer create-project --prefer-dist laravel/laravel projectName "5.8.*"
Example 5: create project command in laravel
Before starting this hope you installed composer dependancy manager for PHP.
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So if you want to create a project by name of 'first_laravel_app' in directory C:/xampp/htdocs/ then what you need to do is
Locate your project parent directory using cmd
>cd c:/xampp/htdocs
and fire this command
>composer create-project laravel/laravel first_laravel_app --prefer-dist
And its done, this is really easy and it also creates Application Key automatically for you.
Example 6: laravel install
composer global require laravel/installer