Run the Laravel PHP sample app

A quick check

Make sure you have the following ready:

A Kontent.ai account
Composer installed
PHP 7.2 or higher
Your favorite IDE or code editor
- For Windows, see how to set up Visual Studio Code for PHP development on Windows.
- For Linux, see how to set up PHP Storm for PHP development on Linux.

Prepare your sample project

Kontent.ai comes with a few sample projects to showcase best practices. The PHP sample app is built around one of them.

Here’s how you can create your own sample project:

In Kontent.ai, click your initials in the bottom left corner.
Select Projects.
At the end of the list, click Create complete sample project.
Select a subscription for the project.
Click Create project.

You now have a project named Sample Project you can use with the sample app!

Clone the app

Clone

the sample app's repository

to your device.

Run the app

In your command line, navigate to the sample app folder.
Run composer install to install the app dependencies.
Run composer run prepare-environment to create a sample Laravel environment file.
- Without the environment file present, PHP will throw a warning. However, this doesn’t prevent you from starting the app.
Run php artisan serve to start the app.

Open 127.0.0.1:8000 in your browser to see the running sample app.

Connect your Kontent.ai project

By default, the sample app uses a shared Kontent.ai sample project.We recommend connecting the app to your own Sample Project so you can freely make changes and play with it.

In Kontent.ai > Environment settings > General > Environment ID, copy the Environment ID for Production.
In your .env file, set the PROJECT_ID environment variable to the value of your Environment ID.
Save the .env file and restart the server.