Installing Laravel

I am on a windows 8 machine and I'm trying to learn laravel. I copy and pasted my PHP folder from C:\xampp to C:\php, installed composer, ran composer install then composer create-project laravel/laravel learning-laravel. So far everything was created so I went into the directory and tried to use 'php artisan serve' and got the following error.

C:\Users\denni_000\learning-laravel>php artisan serve
Warning: require(C:\Users\denni_000\learning-laravel\bootstrap/../vendor/autoloa
d.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in C:\Users\denni_000\l
earning-laravel\bootstrap\autoload.php on line 17

Answer:

try to follow the installation guide from Laravel

1-get Composer: Composer.

Like Laravel.com says: "Make sure to place the ~/.composer/vendor/bin directory in your PATH so the laravel executable can be located by your system."

On CMD type the follow

2-

Composer global require "laravel/installer=~1.1"

3-

laravel new blog

"laravel new" command will create a fresh Laravel project on the directory you specify. You also can create a project with composer, like that :

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