Guide to upgrade to Laravel 8

Step by Step

• Requirements:
• PHP >= 7.4.0
• MySQL 5.6
• BCMath PHP Extension
• OpenSSL PHP Extension
• PDO PHP Extension
• Mbstring PHP Extension
• Tokenizer PHP Extension
• XML PHP Extension
• Ctype PHP Extension
• JSON PHP Extension
• cURL
• Fileinfo PHP Extension

• First steps
• Create a folder on your server for example called _NEW
• Upload the files found inside the Script folder to the folder you just created on your server _NEW

• Do not delete the files that you will copy below because you will lose all the changes you have made.
• You should only copy the files from your current site to the folders mentioned below.

• Root directory
• Copy the file .env of your current site to the _NEW folder
• app
• Copy the Models folder of your current site to the _NEW folder

• Copy the app/Http/Controllers folder of your current site to the _NEW folder

• public
• Copy the entire public folder to _NEW folder

• resources
• Copy the folder resources/lang of your current site to _NEW folder
• Copy the folder resources/views of your current site to _NEW folder

• routes
• Copy the file routes/web.php of your current site to _NEW folder

• Once all the folders and files have been copied, create a new folder called _backup there will move all the files of your current site as backup.

• Finally go to the _NEW folder, select all the files, and move them to your root directory.