Laravel and Netbeans

Use Netbeans with a Laravel project on Windows

• • • Install Laravel follow instructions here or if you already have composer installed

      composer global require laravel/installer

    • Download wget here
    • Create a Laravel project in desired directory.

      laravel new project_name

      or

      composer create-project laravel/laravel your-project-name --prefer-dist

      if –prefer-dist is omitted, the latest version will be installed.

    • Install barryvdh/laravel-ide-helper from Github

      wget https://gist.githubusercontent.com/barryvdh/5227822/raw/4be028a27c4ec782965bb8f2fdcb4c08c71a441d/_ide_helper.php

    • Start Netbeans.  Open project from existing source.
    • Note:  If the vendor directory is missing, you will get a warning if you tried to use PHP artisan commands.  Run the following in the laravel project directory

      composer update --no-scripts