How to install Laravel's Artisan?

Question

I want to create migrations in Laravel but according to the tutorials I need the Artisan CLI. The `php` command works fine and I'm on Windows. I type in `php artisan` or `php artisan list` and I get the following error: Could not open input file: artisan I wasn't able to find any guide in the documentation nor in Google. How can I install Artisan?

Accepted Answer

Use the project's root folder

Artisan comes with Laravel by default, if your `php` command works fine, then the only thing you need to do is to navigate to the project's root folder. The root folder is the parent folder of the `app` folder. For example:

```
cd c:\Program Files\xampp\htdocs\your-project-name
```

Now the `php artisan list` command should work fine, because PHP runs the file called `artisan` in the project's folder.

Install the framework

Keep in mind that Artisan runs scripts stored in the `vendor` folder, so if you installed Laravel without Composer, like downloading and extracting the Laravel GitHub repo, then you don't have the framework itself and you may get the following error when you try to use Artisan:

Could not open input file: artisan

To solve this you have to install the framework itself by running `composer install` in your project's root folder.

How to install Laravel's Artisan?

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