Laravel Integration

This document will help you set up the Laravel framework on a Windows machine and further the development process that includes REST APIs.

Step 1: Installation

• Download the WAMP server and install it

• Once WAMP is installed, expose the PHP path in the system environment variable

  • Right click This PC-> Properties-> Advance System Settings (Under System->About)-> Advanced-> Envrionment Variables-> click Path-> and add as new path  C:\wamp64\bin\php\php8.2.13

• Visit the Composer website and download the Composer-Setup.exe

• Verify the installation by typing composer in your terminal.

Create a Laravel Project

1. Open your terminal and navigate to the directory where you want to install Laravel.

2. Run the following Composer command to create a new Laravel project:

composer create-project --prefer-dist laravel/laravel piappstudio

3. Navigate to piappstudio and execute this command

php artisan serve

Create a Models

1. Create customer & invoice models by using the below comments

php artisan make:model Customer --all

php artisan make:model Invoice --all

2. Create a relationship between Customers & Invoices
   
   

   1. Customer to Invoice has 1:N relationship. Update the Customer model by adding the below function in app/Models

class Customer extends Model

{

    use HasFactory;

    public function invoices() {

        return $this->hasMany(Invoice::class);

    }

}

2. 2. Invoice to Custom has N:1 relationship
      
      

class Invoice extends Model

{

    use HasFactory;

    public function customer() {

        return $this->BelongsTo(Customer::class);

    }

}

2. 3.  Update the table structure of both in database/migrations/

   4. Update factories files to generate dummy values when seeds are executed

   5. Update seeders files to create dummy data for customers

   6. Open .env file change the database configurations to point mysql

DB_CONNECTION=mysql

DB_HOST=127.0.0.1

DB_PORT=3306

DB_DATABASE=piappstudio

DB_USERNAME=root

DB_PASSWORD=******

2. 7. Add this line in boot() function to avoid mysql server errors in app/Provider/AppServiceProvider
      Schema::defaultStringLength(191);

   8. Finally, execute 

php artisan migrate:fresh --seed

To Add Route Service provider

php artisan make:Provider RouteServiceProvider

To integrate sanctum:

composer require laravel/sanctum

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Laravel\Sanctum\SanctumServiceProvider"