How to configure a PHP environment in 15 minutes
Summary
In this opportunity, I would like to show you how to create a simple web app with PHP and Yii from scratch, set up your app on your local Apache server and configure XDebug on your local environment for code debugging purposes. To follow this tutorial, you will need: The following libraries are likely to be required to run Composer, which is a tool for dependency management in PHP that allows you to declare the libraries your project depends on and it will manage (install/update) them for you: After you have installed PHP and Composer, run the following command to create a Yii project in the project directory: This command will install the latest stable version of a Yii application template and all the necessary components that requires to be executed. In the file, we set the variables needed for the connection between our MySQL instance and our recently created Yii app, replacing your_mysql_user and your_mysql_pass with your own MySQL username and password: With this command we create a migration that will generate a movies table on the database, with the title, the director and the year of release as their attributes: And we will run it with this one: Now the database has a movies table that will be used in our Yii app. Once these settings are ready, run the server on debug mode and put a breakpoint on any method of the MovieController file. Getting started on PHP is not as easy as one would expect, since it requires a lot of background knowledge in many different tools.
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