FAQs [How to Build a Blog with Laravel]

I have been getting lots of questions sent to me via email, twitter and youtube comments. I think its great and in today's episode I wanted to answer the most common questions that I get and help you guys out that might be having the same questions.

[joymahmud]

Your laravel Series is really Awesome.

[elitsavr]

Your tutorials are amazing! Thank you very much! Greetings from Bulgaria. :)

[NathanBudd]

Nice to see you answering questions from people following your tutorials.
Re XAMPP, Windows doesn't have a LAMP stack by default, and it's a bit more of a chore setting it up than it is on OSX.

XAMPP can run simultaneously with Artisan Serve quite happily from my experience.

Install XAMPP, create your directory in your xampp/htdocs folder (eg c:/xampp/htcods/sites/blog) and setup your directory root for the public folder in Laravel.

[blessingdube]

Thank you Alex for such a great series of tutorials, I appreciate not only the time it has taken to prepare this course material but you also had to learn all this. Putting all this together and then sharing your knowledge for free. Wow!

[alessiogiorgianni_official]

You are such a great teacher! I'm starting use laravel since i follow your tutorial and again i must notice that if now i'm learning a little bit more about of laravel it's only becouse of you, so many thanks! One more thing, may you post a tutorial about install and deployment of laravel's app on digital ocean? Many Thanks !

[abhimishra]

Great Laravel tutorials.. Pls also integrate this app with social logins for facebook, twitter and google.. I will really appretiate for that. Thank you.

[stephenofori]

The great tutorials ever on laravel... Thanks Curtis

[ahmedamer]

thank you for this effort sir could you make advanced laravel series ?

[darkking]

I use php artisan serve as my php server and wamp for mysql server on windows, I think my configuration won't encounter any conflict problems since Apache runs on port 80 while artisan runs on port 8000. Awesome tutorial btw :)

[Skyler.Finance]

So far great tutorial. I am intending to deploy this blog on production environment, I hope by the end of this series it would be secure and stable enough for deployment.

[Kareem.Maradona]

About the css and js locations on the public folder, i guess the best way to access that throw url function from the blade {{ URL::to('css/CSS.css') }} ... so when URL::to(" ") puts u actually inside the public folder.

[desmondcodes]

Hi. If I am to turn off xampp apache and only start up php artisan serve, my MySQL phpmyadmin will not be accessible. Is there any way around this?

[arkarkyaw]

You are the great teacher!!! I haven't learned Laravel and PHP Artisan before. Now, I reached this step and I know a little about Laravel. But I want to know can I upload or install this web application and database to my Godaddy share hosting??? What should I do???

[MarcelloPato]

QUESTION!
I do have an web site all coded using vanilla php 5.*.* not using Laravel.
I don't want to install MAMMP. The question is:
Can I do laravel new (my-ready-site) and park all my files ON or IN the views folder, chaging the path of the Laravel index page?

I hope You get it!
Thanks a lot!

[pastuh]

I was doing website from different tutorials, and looks like this will help me to complete without errors :}

[robdorn]

Hi, thank you for this super great tutorial!
Would you recommend using the Laravel webserver on a production server too, instead of a regular Apache WS?
Is it stable and secure enough?

[kaiser]

For adding bootstrap local files..
Use:
<link
Not:
<link href="css/bootstrap.min.css">

..same goes with js.

Add the slash. It's a Lifesaver. Although w/o the slash it will still load but in the "../posts/create" and "../posts/show" it would no longer load.

I've been really having a tough time this week on loading the localfiles of bootstrap/jquery because the Internet is tough these days. Thanks for the awesome tuts Jacurtis! Hope more series to come. Godbless man and Merry Christmas. <3 Philippines

[kryaez]

How about if I use Xampp so I can run MySQL Database?

[Ihsanullahkhan]

I like the way, it's very inspirational. I have a question as of now we are having Laravel 5.4. Is the tutorial still applicable to this version.

[devaiaizarry]

+Jacurtis hey thanks for the great tutorials, quick question what if i wanted to create a registration form, should i create also a RegistrationController.php and another CRUD functions for it?

More Power!