Chapter 1. Setting Up and Installing Laravel

In this chapter, we will cover:

  • Installing Laravel as a git submodule
  • Setting up a virtual host and development environment in Apache
  • Creating "clean" URLs
  • Configuring Laravel
  • Using Laravel with Sublime Text 2
  • Setting up your IDE to autocomplete Laravel's namespaces
  • Using Autoloader to map a class name to its file
  • Creating advanced Autoloaders with namespaces and directories