Install and Run Laravel - Composer and Xampp

Make sure you already have Xampp installed.

Install Composer

• Can go to >1< or >2< to download a Composer for Windows.
• Install the composer.setup. Click Next and it will automatically detect your PHP file. Click Next, then Install.

• Click Finish and that's about it.

Setting Up with Command Prompt

• Open cmd, type in cd c:/
• Type, composer global require laravel/installer 
• Type, cd C:\xampp\htdocs
• Then, composer create-project --prefer-dist laravel/laravel app(you can change this).
• Wait until it is done and successful. After that, type in cls.
• Try typing in, php artisan serve. It could not open input file because we are not in the right directory.
• Now head into the folder that you've created by typing, cd app
• Now type in, php artisan serve. 
• Next, open your browser and type in 127.0.0.1:8000(port number given) and a Laravel page will show.

*Note that every time you want to do this after you type in 'php artisan serve', a new port number will show up. So, use it to open Laravel.

Done!