Installing Laravel 4

Laravel 4 uses Composer to manage its dependencies. You can install Composer by following the instructions at http://getcomposer.org/doc/00-intro.md#installation-nix.

Once you have Composer working, make a new directory or navigation to an existing directory and install Laravel 4 with the following command:

1 composer create-project laravel/laravel ./ --prefer-dist 

If you chose not to install Composer globally (though you really should), then the command you use should resemble the following:

1 php composer.phar create-project laravel/laravel ./ --prefer-dist 

Both of these commands will start the process of installing Laravel 4. There are many dependencies to be sourced and downloaded; so this process may take some time to finish.