How to install Laravel s Artisan

Question

I want to create migrations in Laravel but according to the tutorials I need the Artisan CLI  The php command works fine and I m on Windows  I type in php artisan or php artisan list and I get the following error      Could not open input file  artisan   I wasn t able to find any guide in the documentation nor in Google  How can I install Artisan

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Use the project s root folder Artisan comes with Laravel by default  if your php command works fine  then the only thing you need to do is to navigate to the project s root folder  The root folder is the parent folder of the app folder  For example  cd c  Program Files xampp htdocs your-project-name  Now the php artisan list command should work fine  because PHP runs the file called artisan in the project s folder  Install the framework Keep in mind that Artisan runs scripts stored in the vendor folder  so if you installed Laravel without Composer  like downloading and extracting the Laravel GitHub repo  then you don t have the framework itself and you may get the following error when you try to use Artisan   Could not open input file  artisan  To solve this you have to install the framework itself by running composer install in your project s root folder

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Explanation  When you install a new laravel project on your folder for example myfolder  using the composer  it installs the complete laravel project inside your folder myfolder laravel  than artisan is inside laravel that s  why you see an error       Could not open input file  artisan   Solution  You have to go inside by command prompt to that location or move laravel files inside your folder

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You just have to read the laravel installation page      Install Composer if not already installed   Open a command line and do    composer global require  laravel installer    Inside your htdocs or www directory  use either   laravel new appName    this can lead to an error on windows computers while using latest Laravel  1 3 2   or   composer create-project --prefer-dist laravel laravel appName    this works also on windows  to create a project called  appName    To use  php artisan xyz  you have to be inside your project root  as artisan is a file php is going to use    Simple as that

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in laravel  artisan is a file under root protected page  for example       c  xampp htdocs my project protected artisan   you can view the content of  artisan  file with any text editor  it s a php command syntax  so when we type     php artisan   we tell php to run php script in  artisan  file  for example      php artisan change   will show the change of current laravel version  to see the other option  just type      php artisan

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While you are working with Laravel you must be in root of laravel directory structure  There are App  route  public etc folders is root directory   Just follow below step to fix issue  check composer status using   composer -v  First  download the Laravel installer using Composer   composer global require  laravel installer    Please check with below command   php artisan serve   still not work then create new project with existing code  using LINK

[php] How to install Laravel's Artisan?

Use the project's root folder

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