How to make time ago in Laravel Project

When we are building a blog post or we create an item in our project we might need to let people the post was created by when and it has been how long time ago in your Laravel Project.

So today, I gonna show you step by step to do it.

Step

• Step 1 — Install Laravel
• Step 2 — Setting up a MySQL Database
• Step 3 — Create a Database Migration
• Step 4 — Add a Resource Route
• Step 5 — Add a Controller and Model
• Step 6 — Add Blade View
• Step 7 — Run Development Server
• Step 8 — Test This App

Step 1 — Installing Laravel

Let’s get started by installing Laravel using Composer.

Open a new command-line interface and run the following command:

$ composer create-project laravel/laravel=8.0 testapp --prefer-dist

Step 2 — Setting up a MySQL Database

Let’s now create a MySQL database that we’ll use to persist data in our Laravel application. In your terminal, run the following command to run the mysql client:

mysql -u root -p

When prompted, enter the password for your MySQL server when you’ve installed it.

Next, run the following SQL statement to create a db database:

mysql> create database testapp;

Open the .env file and update the credentials to access your MySQL database:

DB_CONNECTION=mysql
DB_HOST=127.0.0.1
DB_PORT=3306
DB_DATABASE=db
DB_USERNAME=root
DB_PASSWORD=******

You need to provide the database name, the username and password.

At this point, you can run the migrate command to create your database and a bunch of SQL tables needed by Laravel:

php artisan migrate

Step 3 — Creating a Database Migration