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Course Introduction & Environment Setup

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Watch the installer walkthrough and note the importance of matching PHP version with Laravel requirements. Beginners often skip configuring .env properly, leading to mysterious DB connection errors.

In real projects the environment file controls everything from database credentials to API keys, so keep it out of version control and use php artisan key:generate to secure the app.

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