php artisan migrate

Are you running this in the root of your project?

yes i figured that out and now im getting this error

C:\Users\mzahr\blog>php artisan migrate PHP Fatal error: Class 'Illuminate\Foundation\Application' not found in C:\Users\mzahr\blog\bootstrap\app.php on line 14

Fatal error: Class 'Illuminate\Foundation\Application' not found in C:\Users\mzahr\blog\bootstrap\app.php on line 14

run composer dump-autoload

i tried it and resulted into another error : Generating optimized autoload files Class Illuminate\Foundation\ComposerScripts is not autoloadable, can not call post-autoload-dump script

@php artisan package:discover

Fatal error: Class 'Illuminate\Foundation\Application' not found in C:\Users\mzahr\blog\bootstrap\app.php on line 14 PHP Fatal error: Class 'Illuminate\Foundation\Application' not found in C:\Users\mzahr\blog\bootstrap\app.php on line 14 Script @php artisan package:discover handling the post-autoload-dump event returned with error code 255

@mariona19 Remove the vendor folder and composer.lock and run command:

composer install  

that should fix the problem

Whenever you clone a project, you need to install the dependencies. So your typical steps will be first composer install and then php artisan migrate

@rin4ik it updated the dependencies but when i tried php aritsan migrate again i got the same error PHP Warning: require(C:\Users\mzahr\blog/vendor/autoload.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in C:\Users\mzahr\blog\artisan on line 18

Warning: require(C:\Users\mzahr\blog/vendor/autoload.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in C:\Users\mzahr\blog\artisan on line 18 PHP Fatal error: require(): Failed opening required 'C:\Users\mzahr\blog/vendor/autoload.php' (include_path='C:\xampp\php\PEAR') in C:\Users\mzahr\blog\artisan on line 18

Fatal error: require(): Failed opening required 'C:\Users\mzahr\blog/vendor/autoload.php' (include_path='C:\xampp\php\PEAR') in C:\Users\mzahr\blog\artisan on line 18

@mariona19 that's strange try again composer dump-autoload

Did the composer install step complete fully without errors? It should have created the autoload files, but you can do this using composer dump-autoload

@rin4ik another error Generating optimized autoload files Class Illuminate\Foundation\ComposerScripts is not autoloadable, can not call post-autoload-dump script

@php artisan package:discover

Fatal error: Class 'Illuminate\Foundation\Application' not found in C:\Users\mzahr\blog\bootstrap\app.php on line 14 PHP Fatal error: Class 'Illuminate\Foundation\Application' not found in C:\Users\mzahr\blog\bootstrap\app.php on line 14 Script @php artisan package:discover handling the post-autoload-dump event returned with error code 255

in public/index.php file you have these lines?

require __DIR__.'/../vendor/autoload.php';

/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Turn On The Lights
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| We need to illuminate PHP development, so let us turn on the lights.
| This bootstraps the framework and gets it ready for use, then it
| will load up this application so that we can run it and send
| the responses back to the browser and delight our users.
|
*/

$app = require_once __DIR__.'/../bootstrap/app.php';

one question just to make sure how can i update my php from the cmd becuase i think i have an old version which is not compatible

@mariona19 I don't think that it's related to php version. please check this in your routes/web.php file to know your current php version:

Route::get('phpinfo', function () {
    phpinfo();
});

check in browser domain.test/phpinfo

check first you have artisan file in your root directory.

coming from google, burner account just to answere here. nobody seemed to notice they had this path specified:

C:\Users\mzahr\blog/vendor/autoload.php

they are obviously on xampp, and the path can NEVER work when trying to match unix/path/style to a windows\path\style