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Working with the database

Working with the database - Laravel Tutorial

From the course: Laravel Essential Training

Working with the database

In this course, we will use a MySQL database with Laravel. This default configuration is ready to work with Laravel Sail, which is what we are using within Codespaces. So if you're working locally using Herd, this might look slightly different to you, but you don't have to change the defaults. It will work. A database with this name was already created when the app was created and ready to connect. So everything is set up for us to start working with this database. Before we start creating a table and writing some queries, let's use a GUI tool to interact with the database. This Codespace ID already has a database client extension installed. So you should be able to see this database icon here. If you're working locally, you can download and install a tool like TablePlus. In Codespaces, open the database tool. Click on "Create Connection" and change these values to match the ones in the environment config. So host is mysql, username is sail, password is password. Let me change those…

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