Laravel Version (8.0)

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Server Requirement

The Laravel framework has a few system requirements. You should ensure that your web server has the following minimum PHP version and extensions:

• PHP >= 7.3
• BCMath PHP Extension
• Ctype PHP Extension
• Fileinfo PHP extension
• JSON PHP Extension
• Mbstring PHP Extension
• OpenSSL PHP Extension
• PDO PHP Extension
• Tokenizer PHP Extension
• XML PHP Extension

Installation Steps:

• Laravel utilizes Composer to manage its dependencies. So, before using Laravel, make sure you have Composer installed on your machine.

  composer update

• After successfully executing of composer update command check the Laravel version

  php artisan --version

• Now Need some Laravel Commands (old versions required)

  php artisan key:generate

Local Development Server

If you have PHP installed locally and you would like to use PHP's built-in development server to serve your application, you may use the serve Artisan command. This command will start a development server at http://localhost:8000:

• command for serves your project

  php artisan serve

You need to know how laravel works in order to use this version. Check the Laravel 8 official documentation

PHP 7.3.0 Required

The new minimum PHP version is now 7.3.0.

Updating Dependencies

Laravel latest version Upgrade Guide

Update the following dependencies in your composer.json file:

guzzlehttp/guzzle to ^7.0.1

facade/ignition to ^2.3.6

laravel/framework to ^8.0

laravel/ui to ^3.0

nunomaduro/collision to ^5.0

phpunit/phpunit to ^9.0

Example:

"require": { 
    "php": "^7.3|^8.0", 
    "fideloper/proxy": "^4.2", 
    "fruitcake/laravel-cors": "^2.0", 
    "guzzlehttp/guzzle": "^7.0.1",
    "laravel/framework": "^8.0", 
    "laravel/tinker": "^2.0" 
}, 
"require-dev": { 
    "facade/ignition": "^2.3.6", 
    "fzaninotto/faker": "^1.9.1", 
    "laravel/sail": "^1.0.1",
    "mockery/mockery": "^1.3.1", 
    "nunomaduro/collision": "^5.0", 
    "phpunit/phpunit": "^9.3" 
}, 

Update php version and Check command

php -v

Example php -v command after:

PHP 8.0.10 (cli) (built: Aug 26 2021 15:49:49) ( NTS )
                        Copyright (c) The PHP Group
                        Zend Engine v4.0.10, Copyright (c) Zend Technologies
                        with Zend OPcache v8.0.10, Copyright (c), by Zend Technologies
                        with Xdebug v3.0.4, Copyright (c) 2002-2021, by Derick Rethans

PHP 7.4.9 (cli) (built: Aug  7 2020 14:29:36) ( NTS )
Copyright (c) The PHP Group
Zend Engine v3.4.0, Copyright (c) Zend Technologies
    with Zend OPcache v7.4.9, Copyright (c), by Zend Technologies

PHP 7.3.23-1+ubuntu18.04.1+deb.sury.org+1 (cli) (built: Oct  6 2020 11:36:27) ( NTS )
Copyright (c) 1997-2018 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v3.3.23, Copyright (c) 1998-2018 Zend Technologies
    with Zend OPcache v7.3.23-1+ubuntu18.04.1+deb.sury.org+1, Copyright (c) 1999-2018, by Zend Technologies

Use Minimum PHP 7.3 and also available PHP 7.4

After successfully executing of composer update command check the Laravel version

Now Need some Laravel Commands (old versions required)

Local Development Server

If you have PHP installed locally and you would like to use PHP's built-in development server to serve your application, you may use the serve Artisan command. This command will start a development server at http://localhost:8000:

• command for serves your project

  php artisan serve