Outdated Information. This was posted February 2014. Laravel seems to have moved away from the pre-packaged laravel.phar installation method. Install docs for Laravel 4.2 here
In addition to cloning from Git and installing via Composer Laravel can now be installed via a PHAR file.
The documentation is currently a little Linux centric.
On Windows download the laravel.phar file, open a command prompt in its location and run:
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php laravel.phar new my-project-name
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That will create a new directory called my-project-name and install Laravel in there. This is a lot faster than installing via composer.
2 replies on “Laravel’s PHAR Installer on Windows”
This would be AWESOME if the link to the laravel.phar didn’t just return:
“Whoops, looks like something went wrong.”
I guess I’ll check again tomorrow… *sigh*
Hm, Laravel seemed to have dropped this method of installation.
It seems to have been replaced with the Laravel installer for composer.
I haven’t tried this approach yet.