Laravel is one of the modern frameworks for PHP application development. It has more security features to protect the application interface. Here we give an explanation of how to generate an application key in Laravel.
What is Laravel
Laravel is an MVC Framework written in PHP. It has all the necessary features such as signup, login, sending emails, and more. It is also very useful to build our own business logic into a beautiful web application.
Application Key in Laravel
Laravel Applications has a security key to protect the application code and make it more secure for input data. By default, it has some application with it. But It must be changed before you deploy as its needs for security purposes.
Here we explained how we can generate a new Laravel application key in the command line.
Open the command window in the project folder
Laravel Artisan Key Command
You can generate a key by the following command:
php artisan key:generate
The key will be written automatically in your .env file.
APP_KEY=YOUR_GENERATED_KEY
If you want to see your key after generation use --show option
php artisan key:generate --show
Note: The .env is a hidden file in your project folder.
You can get more info in Laravel Documentation.
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