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PHP Tools for Visual Studio (July 2021)
We are happy to announce PHP Tools for Visual Studio v1.55. This release contains significant improvements, new UI and new features.
Installing and configuring XAMPP for PHP development
XAMPP is a cross-platform Apache HTTP server distribution containing MariaDB (fork of MySQL) database, PHP, and Perl. The word "XAMPP" is an acronym and it seems there is no official explaning of if, but we can safely assume that "X" stands for "cross", meaning "cross-platform", A would be Apache, M is MariaDB. While first P would be short for PHP and second P for Pearl or reversed?
PHP Tools for Code, Version 1.4
Announcing release version 1.4 of PHP Tools for Visual Studio Code. Read more about the new features made for developers, addressing most frequent questions, requests, and ideas.
Laravel on WSL and VS Code
Visual Studio Code and Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL): those represent a great couple for developing a PHP application such as Laravel inside a virtual Linux environment. This tutorial describes installation of WSL (version 2) on Windows 10, setting up PHP with debugging capabilities in there, creating a Laravel project, and getting your VS Code ready to debug the PHP project in WSL.
PHP Tools for VS Code (May 2021)
The recent updates to PHP Tools for VS Code introduces new features and improvements. Read more about the new test explorer, debugging improvements, code actions, and more.
PHP Tools for Visual Studio (May 2021)
Read the news about new features in PHP 8.1 and PHP Tools for Visual Studio - RegEx, PHP 8.1 enumerations, PHP 8.1 installation, etc.
PHP RegEx Editor
Perl Compatible Regular Expressions (PCRE) are integral part of most PHP applications. Therefore it's important to make developing with them easy and transparent. PHP Tools for Visual Studio 2019 introduces several neat features making the editing and testing such expressions a fluent experience. The features are the following:
Managing multiple PHP versions on Windows with Visual Studio
There are several reasons why to have multiple PHP installations locally. You might have one old project that requires PHP 5.6 (already end of line since January 1st 2019), the other project in PHP 7.1 and one more project in PHP 7.4 which you are upgrading to PHP 8.0.
Managing multiple PHP versions on Windows with Visual Studio[Autosave]
There are several reasons why to have multiple PHP installations locally. You might have one old project that requires PHP 5.6 (already end of line since January 1st 2019), the other project in PHP 7.1 and one more project in PHP 7.4 which you are upgrading to PHP 8.0.