This short tutorial is based on my own installation of Laravel 5 on XAMPP that is running on Windows 7.
In this Laravel 5 tutorial, you will need:
- Composer – click here for installation instructions
- command prompt
- Internet connection
- XAMPP
There have been major changes in the following: New Folder Structure, Contracts, Route Cache, Route Middleware, Controller Method Injection, Authentication Scaffolding, Event Objects, Commands / Queueing, Database Queue, Laravel Scheduler, Tinker / Psysh, DotEnv, Laravel Elixir, Laravel Socialite, Flysystem Integration, Form Requests, Simple Controller Request Validation, New Generators, Configuration Cache, Symfony VarDumper.
To learn more about the Laravel 5.0 update, read about it here.
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