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Ask HN: PHP Development Environment on Windows?
I no longer use MAC or Linux systems.
my mother had got me a Windows laptop Lenovo and want to play around with it for a bit get the hang of windows
I'm also interested in learning PHP Wordpress but mostly on windows
is there a way to set up a Dev playground on PHP?
I hear Wampserver or Xampp ? are those the 2 best options for window PHP developers.
- kbrannigan 6y agoI would personally recommend Laragon: https://laragon.org/ https://laragon.org/ It's more polished than the older programs. It offers neat features like: quick apps, virtual hosts etc... It isolates your php stuff, you can mess with it without worries
- dazmiller 6y ago+1 for Laragon, simply a joy to work with.
- leeshire 6y agookay another interesting answer thanks a lot ! appreciate this . So basically is like WAMP? OR MAMP? When I had a macbook pro I used MAMP and loved it . but when I downloaded MAMP for windows it said to download a bunch of other Redistributables which took a while and headache lol
- cloudking 6y agoSet up WSL for a proper Linux dev environment within Windows 10 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install-win10 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install-win10
- leeshire 6y agowow this is very interesting have you tried it before? I use to be for big on Ubuntu I used it for a long time is it similar? I'll look into it thanks a lot.
- cloudking 6y agoYes it's awesome, you can install Ubuntu and everything just works. You get access to both file systems from each OS.