Some friends and I decided to start working on a project and we came across Laravel and thought it might be a good tool. We started using it locally to develop out some of
Futhermore, don't forget this taken from: http://php.net/manual/en/opcache.configuration.php#ini.opcache.revalidate-freq
"This configuration directive is ignored if opcache.validate_timestamps is disabled."
Which was the case for me.